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We learn to live
With pain
We need to change
Our educational system
To change our future selves
We need to learn how
Not to cause pain
We need to go from
Theory to action
We need to become
Better story tellers
In order to describe
Our future
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imagine if I had done
anything, any one of these things
it is unimaginable
that it would have been tolerable
what wasn't said
is that there would have been a
lynching
but i saw in my minds eye
coated with fear
people on the steps of the white house
erecting a structure on which
to affix a rope
and the call to action
is a simple statement
it is up to all of us to
fix this
to see the wrong
and for every citizen
to show up
and participate
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To germinate
To navigate
A compromise
In finding love
Who sneezed on you
To make you so sick
Was the virus a loving embrace
Turning your life into something
New
Was the infection a curse
Turning you from future
Love
My privilege is knowing
Only the loving embrace
Even through pain
and unpleasantness
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To germinate
I can only understand
The curse through
An experience of
Empathy
Embracing the unfamiliar
I attempt to reflect what i
See
Offering guidance
To a soul seeking
Experience
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I want to write of
Sensory experience
But am overwhelmed
With visions of
Humanity
People making connections
Without me
That I write of the pain
Of loss the potential
I write of the souls
Seeking the eternal
Cast across the universe
Radiating in a massive
Collective with me
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What is it about
The soul that attracts
Fungus
That nourishes this
Life we hold so true
If god is in our belly buttons
Does the fungus keep it
So that we can stumble about
Unaware of our sacred duty
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I have decided
One of the most interesting
Decisions I have to make
The chocolate bombe
That is what we will have
Sure it is what was recommended
However it’s honestly the best
Have you seen it before?
Oh the excitement!
Have your phone ready
This is what you show people when you go home
Oh my!
The vision chocolate melting away
But the experience
Taste
And the dessert is saying
hello to My teeth
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I have this thought
b‘twixt my ears
Why aren’t words
Used more
To communicate our needs
Between individuals
Fights would surely reduce
Between nations
Why surely great pain and suffering
Would reduce
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Be kind with your
Movements
Your feet are soft
My dreams are
Laid out for
All
You may not consider
Your walk to be a march
Contained in jack boots
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Teach the young codes
Early
Such that they think
Otherly
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If the theatre
Does not
Effect the culture
Of a community
Is it even trying
If the theatre tries
but does not
Effect the creature
Are you even listening
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Oh to be alive in Dublin
And by that I mean
To kiss
The one I have searched for
To cross a bridge with
The Liffey below
Passing sea horses
Walking through a park with
Seeing the scent of flowers
Museums full of experience
To live in front of the poets
Inspiring them
What muses we must be
To have inspired two
A century or more before
To capture such love
What example will we leave
For the future