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CHOOSING PATH
Fill the void...apply to infected area...the balm of Gilead...have you
been had?...you can count me in that number...of those who slumbered...in
candyland amid ice castles...where all appeared sweet and glistened...then
I listened...with ears to hear...when the rain came...washing my castles
way...making everything sticky...and I was stuck...and had to buck...with
all the pluck, I could muster...so don't judge by luster...and all that
glitters isn't gold...do what your told...stay in the fold...if you can't
handle the truth...cause the truth is out there...or is it?...Either way
you've got to take care...be on the ware...I'm just yanking your
chain...there be more for you than against you...who can catch leviathan
on a hook? who can fillet said creature and grill?...what am I getting at?
buy low, sell high...don't put on socks until their dry...or hang head
heaving heavy sigh...or beseeching pretty blue but empty skies...you've
already got all you'll get and you need inside...
© Dale Wicks
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ALWAYS IN MY HEART
never quite sanguine...situated twixt rocky and certain...heaven and
hell...drawing water, down a well...beating out rhythms...expand and
contract...move forward, then fall back...a two step of sorts...suspended
animation...endless gyration...forlorn situation...break it down...squeeze
the juice...pour perfume out...what's to lose?...Pavlovian
response?...sitting here in limbo?...move it out...take the bull by the
horns...take best shot, no concern for the scorn...freedoms just another
word for nothing left to lose...or settle back ...accept your caste...part
in play...the role of pawn...or cog in wheel...or ruling lord...perhaps
its ideal...the beating returns...like the beat of a drum...you're at the
oars...stroke, stroke, stroke...is all you hear...is this
unclear?...what's destiny got to do with it?...who's in charge?...what's
the motive?...are you happy...why not?...what're you going do about
it?....drink or toke a contentment?...become more religious?...hope in
political process ?.. plenty of pied pipers poised to play...and lead you
away...to wash your brain...rinse...and repeat...
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THE OFFERED HAND
Puts out a hand .. the man that stills the water...what can't you
stand...do you prefer the choppy seas...respect of persons...adorned in
thy infernal loves...descend like doves...to defecate in your high
tea...you quip, I thank thee...rules and regulations...thy path of
menstruation...leaves one trapped in life without...but dead
within...where's the sincerity...when surface speaks verily...in depths
replies, except for me...and of the half hearted...you split in
two...warring halves...man pleaser, bow to Caesar...also one who sees the
light...it is right...you wrestle in the night...one must rise
victorious...either thine wellspring or thy plight. who will say which is
right? .. of this there's much contention...I'm of the convention...you
must know, realize...the truth be shown...seen clearly in your eyes.
© Dale Wicks
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NOT YOUR GRANDMAS CHICKEN
It was lunchtime when I saw you
Peering back thru saucer eye
I was eating processed you
Your eccentric plumage
A vision, a story
referring to the glory
You were crossing that road
The road of life
Moving against the grain
I saw no strain
in your ever watching eye
I took a bite of you
Meditated while I chewed
Wondering as the mystery grew
Pulse pounding til my mind just blew
You seemed fine on that other side
Why is it that you risked your hide
If not for strangers, I would have cried
To discover what was not known
Out of the coop you must have grown
Twas motive enough for crossing the road
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EROSION
The wind in
its way
Does erode the external
and expose to the light
what's within
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COMFORTED
Embracing each other
the schism negated
left nothing to ponder
except why they waited
© Dale Wicks
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POP YOUR WORLD
You can pop your world
Just an illusion
Inflated by choice
Seen as hard by conclusion
Many can't hear this
The ones that should mind
Surrounded by image
To the rest...quite blind
Glad it seems clear
Tho "it" makes life a chore
While enthralling the masses
This constant spinning's a bore.
©
Dale Wicks
( to those who whole-heartedly pursue the emptiness and
have become empty, the vanity of fulfillment through the exalted concepts
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