Tag: journey
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Maths
I’ve been good at math But there were some hard problems I couldn’t solve And I would rather distract myself So I ran away And tried to solve everyone else But you come with your tools and skills and experience And you know how to make things easier So I can stop running nervously lying…
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Songs on the beach
They’re playing a guitar and violin rendition of The Weight. Take the load off Annie… I’m sitting on the beach in the dark wondering why I don’t have the kind of friends who would play a stupid loud passionate covers of songs on the beach I’m trying to solve the mystery of why I have…
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Sunset
I came late to the beach After the sun had set for some time Only a trailing red light near the edge of the horizon that left a memory that it was there And I felt peaceful And regretted missing the sunset But knowing the sun would have burned my fragile skin Knowing it was…
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Día y día
Every evening around 6:15 I wake up from a nap and reach for a song and I think of you it feels as if you’ve arrived suddenly Like I can turn on your thoughts like a light switch And I fall in love Day by day Little by little To our ordinary lives To rest…
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The digits of pi
I was reading an article online about how they calculated the digits of pi They used to approximate it by using a polygon with so many sides that it could resemble a circle, like a 29,000-gon And I think from someone looking at it they might think it was a circle and not just a…
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The transform cycle
In tarot cards, they tell a story. It starts with the fool card who goes off on a journey A card it meets on the way is the wheel of fortune: this is where the fool experiences the ups and downs of life, teaching us that neither good nor bad fortune is permanent The last…
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Some cages
Some cages aren’t made of bars of steel They’re made of rays of light and hope As I reach to touch the untouchable love My arms stretch and stretch until I’m numb And my arms turn into bars And the shadows between the lights that blind me Cage me in It’s not so much that…
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Do you know what i want?
I asked the universe, Do you know what I truly want? And I held my breath waiting for an answer Scared that no one knew the answer Sacred that I wouldn’t find what I wanted I looked up and saw the sign of a restaurant called ‘joy inn’ I think it’s telling me to let…
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Kings and vagabonds
I wandered into a mystic’s kingdom And ran away with a rebel A lover a fighter He touched my soul Like water Love from a legend He holds what hurts without expectation And he holds onto me like he needs me And I give his life meaning and mercy Like there is no option But…
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Coming and going
I connect with you like breathing Breathing in and out With the risk that I might stop breathing Because of how you always return to understand me, only to understand me Connecting and disappearing into ourselves, our struggles with others, into nature, and finding the way back We break up and come back together many…
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