Labelled

Is it such a bad thing

In such a long run

To pick out one bad thing

After another

So easy to lose touch

Mostly fragile

Much too shy to say

Let bygones be

The pen now a crutch

For the clutch of sparrow-hawks

That chalk the inner walk

In place of open talk

The one bad thing

That led to another

Doubts intrinsically rose

One hope is to rediscover

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Come Back

Only if it could be said

If I could speak

With a clearer voice

I had a choice, always

But almost always

I was highly excitable

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Best Rest Yet

As if the resonance

Sounds that say

The blood is still filtered

The heart pumps to the brain

& tonight, all that is not forgotten

Can be laid to rest

As if some force or test

Surrounds our rights of way

That why with which we play

Those so dear to us, no fear

Even nearer

Doubt not, we did our best

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That Time

Draw down the night

In a room of mirrors

Paintings, furniture & lights

Let the lack of sight

Allow freedoms to wander

Free the mind to write

Of all the noises hereabout

Sounds drawn-down, quite

As if the inner world doth shout

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Choice

Why then call it weakness

If it is almost universal

Where was the fork

The road it seems

Is anything but less travelled

Before the bile

Is liberated

Before sick and sour

Soliloquy's take over

Why not call it joyful

Joyful and universal

The fork of joy

Where both roads

Became well travelled

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