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A bond is new

A bond is not a bad thing

But a bad thing is something

Or someone

Who or that I wish

You would never have to be

Bonded to

For life is too short

And good love is too deep

To have to live with these

Such shallow mistakes

My advice

Think, plan

Do not make what you will not want

Ever

For a bond is new, and it's making should not

Be a wake

It is not

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Goodnight, most honest self

When you finally learn

To be honest with yourself

About feelings and doubt

And sleepless

And your opinions on stoudt

Then

Be it in waking

You can find and find out

What really matters to you

Once whatever simple

Household accessible

Drug your currently on

Has run out

Time

Money

Distraction

Or guise

For me it was the sleepless thing

Which took me finally

Closes enough to realize

That this is life, and it lives

Even when you close your eyes

It IS

There still, moving

Goodnight

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Goodbyeing

Losing a parent

Is not watching someone else

(Lose a parent)

It's not comforting another

Or making yourself available to a brother

Or thinking quietly "poor bastard"

No, it is lonely

And humbling

And quietly greeted with internal mourning

Because you can plan all you want

But when it's your time to speak

To noone at all

You will know that they've risen

And especially if they fall

This is a given

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Upstreams

Somedays the earth smiles back
And other days a frown
Gathers closely like clouds
Just above your eyes
And all a man can do
Really
Is look upon to understand
And see the small triggers
And the upstream of whys

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Seeing

What you saw

Before you

Is mostly

But not always

A more conscious representation

Of what unconscious (or consciously)

Wishes to be

Seen

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The men who must

In regards to me

And my father as well

One of the hardest things

For this kind of man to do

Is nothing

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Honestlywhoknows

Do you

Have an obligation to share

A great collective

A life's work of self

If indeed

It was only for self

And was yours

Most known?

Honestlywhoknows

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The right side of Joy

The idea that someday

You will wake up and find

Yourself on the other side

Of the joyful fence

Of the happiness tree line

Is not even remotely close

If you have never stepped

Or dreamed or prayed aloud

How then can you ever expect to be found

When all that there is around

Is destined for loss

This is the nature of both our earth

And joy, which is not of this earth

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From this today

We respect legacy makers
For what they make
Not for how they did
But because they caused
And at one time lived

But a hundred years from now
Out there in the future
There will always be some young kid
Who never even knows the name
Or from this today what is

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Life most endless

There is this endless thing

With life called wish

And being away from it is

To see the stars again

Without illuminated illuminessenc

Or a clear ounce of old sunlight amiss

And we in our escapism

Wish no longer to wish

And only to hold

Onto distractions for so long

Before we're right back in day

And the light turns a brilliant white from gray

Such an achievement, period, is this

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When viewing the struggles of others

A struggle you see

Means nothing more

Than humanity embodied

The more important response

Is not of them

But of you

Of how you react and think

In regards to their

Situation and being

So let it be

And trust in these

Words of not judging so easily

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Pointless words

If I knew everything
I'd leave
So it's better I do not
That way there is still purpose to books
And plenty of imperfect words
To ponder and read

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Glowing

There is certainly something

Very beautiful in the dawn

When you see a sensory node

Humming buzzing alive

In the glowing sun

(It just is, even if its not for you)

And that's just fine

(For them)

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En work

Sometimes we learn

To work for work

Or self or style

Or living or wage

And yet

The best work is done

For something above and beyond

What is learned in due age

And is most difficult to change

Is to convince others that

Its for them when and when

It has become your own aim

And drug of sorts

Obviously (to self)

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A concrete, solid, tanka

Concrete is this thing

Which man himself made out to

In blocks call himself

A riverbed once dredged king

And so he built up a lie

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Strength

Strength is something

We admire by day

(Some) long to explore during the night

And yet fades like dawn

At the first sight of old age

Because we run to the comfort

And instead not away

From the sugar alive

And so we age

And so we fade

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Equal honor

You can make a living

Off others

And their living

And that is fine

Provided

That their standard of life

Doesn't suffer for you

Or as always

You can make yourself a life

Off yourself and your own

Provided that you

Are indeed and endowed truly

With a skill most true

Which is you

This also can be an equally honorable thing too

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This us, escape

I pray
Not to be carried
Or transported
Though I do clearly love
The good escape
My dear

But I and me
Desire more than just be
For either a minute or few
(Not enough)
To properly express this desire
Of we

Saria

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Steps and pages (turn)

Days come

And days go

And walking walks

And steps unfold

Before you as

Each day is sung

And each story turns

With gray pages fold

And you are young

Until you're old

For as days come

So also are told

This we of time

And of timeless hold

For days stretch out

But time

This time

It always fails to heat and expand

And in turning turns

Cold

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