couldn’t sing along sky echoes kept calling me to the tune of different words always different? so i left and went inside stayed there for quite some time passers by, took me for dead inside the trance, i turned the pages dropping used issues to the ground finding vibrancy on frozen concrete watching parking lots filling up like circular playgrounds or looking past, scraping false giggles cold, dark, rough cheeks that condescend my night hobby shop, was a plastic bag, to some merely good-natured instinct walking on didn’t stop to hear woman telling women that all men were scum, or men telling men that all women were play things there was sense in facing the cold going it alone… the way home was back past dark roads which offered turns, so i stepped into the blackness planting seeds that i found, firmly in soil dirt under my nails grunge between my toes… people laughed, spouting out something like i was poor…but I…I persevered the stone ground & tire marks on my ears… all was warm and gold, revealing incredible detail color painting wavelets of rivers, oceans with bright colored eyes… they said, “don’t, you might not survive”, but i stopped just to listen to what i purchased to be my own, swimming in uncharted waters… setting my own course, growing my own old... knowing quit well, morning walks alone were with the owl, truly looking through the looking glass with hot footed crocodiles and dreams of ridiculous men who couldn't find their own coats I saw gentle spirits held ransom for lottery tickets & little clouds few words stored in my pocket, that might have crumbled to the ground, if I’d been afraid to lean back on my thoughts, pulling out chairs tapping on the forest of life placing a green velveteen lounge in my living room I found light is where we live, what we believe & death of voice is a dark convenience store that fools rob for their own mankind is always searching for something, someone to believe in? I found my someone, something....
Reason for writing:
simply thoughts
Birth sign: Aquarius
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