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nostalgia
I want to go back to that simpler time,
Where we ran through fields and played in dirt,
When we had an abundance of freedom, a million open moments,
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a choice of color
When you were a kid,
When you were still learning animal names,
And awed by the world around you,
What did it mean when you looked up,
At other kids, at adults,
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burning
Burned at the stake for all to see.
Boo! Scream the crowds, words full of glee.
Smiles lit up the kids faces as they stared at me,
While the witches cried out for a flicker of mercy.
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Inevitable
So monarchies fell,
And tyrants too,
Whether democracy does,
Is not up to you.
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dissected
You might want to be a fly on the wall,
Discover what people really think,
What people say when you’re not around.
You don’t want to be a bug on the windshield,
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the hole where we stood
A story you're told about once every year,
Details increase as you're judged old enough.
Then one year it stops, the story as sparse as it can be,
Loves
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Between Lies and Pain
I choose pain.
We gossip all the time.
Shaping somebody,
to what they aren't.
When rumors emerge
between shadows
we change who somebody is
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Not yet.
No.
No, no, no, no!
It can't be December,
not yet.
Because just a minute ago,
we were going back to school shopping.
And now we're almost halfway through the year?
It doesn't make sense.
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Little Lies
I thought I was an extrovert-
I'm not.
I can't talk to somebody unless they approach me first.
So I don't correct when somebody says something that's wrong,
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Planning
I can only wish to check off something from my
endless lists that create the illusion of success.
What will it be today?
My week old math homework due in the next hour
or adding another item to my list?
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A professional liar
Shadows dance on the names we wear,
hiding our true feelings deep down in our pockets.
Hearing each other's footsteps as you walk downstage,
sounds strangely nice.
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Caged Birds
You know what we are?
We’re caged birds.
Birds trapped in a gilded cage.
They try to take away our freedom.
But will we let them?
What’s your answer to that?
We can’t let them.
But we already have.