There making a new way in the world
fitting in with rusty tools trying them out
finding an anachronism is misunderstood
given new shiny promises of purpose and
acknowledgement of talents and charisma
not the famous or spot light type at all
a huge mistaken identity of a caretaker
Plotted and carried out with technicolor precision
a straight jacket could wrap it’s arms around you
protect the hearts of lonely writers suffering
your destruction will hobble an entire life and
your conscience will provide no restitution
For months I had coffee at this hip spot
this guy was raw and jumpy as hell
charismatic, talented and full of life
a long hair came in one day and I heard
one day at a time and it confirmed suspicions
he sat next to me in another room white knuckling
he was home and I was always his family and he knew
that his talent didn’t booze it oozed and life is renewed
All people who have made changes in their own lives
owe it to our society to talk about how life can be better
As a scientist I mentored hundreds of students designing
experiments for medical research, conservation and toxins
they became the citizens that protect and investigate
knowing the war raging in your own body and mind
due to addiction makes you the only spokesman for change
Within just a short month one of these predators
can take over your entire being without much
notice and imperceptible harm while they devour
everything that they covet of your personality
if only the last victim could speak of their true nature
will never trust a person who says they love at the drop of a hat
no doubt it is their only way of recovering after another leaves them
but a caring for a stranger from out of the wide Universe is impossible
although it happens often when their painful bottoms are in full view
this one though created something that has it’s own life and may be
the pathway to self love that was invisible even after all this hard work
a small child that has been abandoned so much
is damaged so deeply that a spiritual numbness
completely unnatural repertoire in what should be
free expression, a protest or anger in a feeling being
they want to believe your delusional justification
because no one can stand by and watch child abuse
Picked the kid up at the downtown library
wonder how much she really does owe
ate lunch at the Botanical Gardens and
heading down the road to walk her dog
not much excitement in a regular day
Taste the carrot juice with orange carotenes
wheat grass with tangy fresh green hills
carouse with an ale that is rich without toxins
laugh harder than any fool that deludes themselves
her story is that she made an avitar in an online sober meeting
then she started flirting with a sober man in Canada and was so
crazy she ended up moving there and living with this sex bomb
for about 6 months as he emotionally abused and nearly died
the delicate white cotton floats everywhere along the river in spring
the magick is not in another person you can capture in your hands
it is in your sharing of the incredible lightness of being after a near fatal brush
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