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You know what I hate?
140 characters
You know what I love?
1000 words
Words make sentences
They can paint pictures
That can mean so much more
They can be just be scribbles
undecipherable marks to some
Can you read this?
I want to know
I want to show
You all you are
And all you mean to me
You’re beautiful, inside and out
A star shining, with no doubt
I love looking into your eyes and see them glow
I love to see you radiate, you need to know
I can’t tell you this when I smash on tiny keys
When I slide my fingers across fancy screens
It’s even hard when I scratch my pen
Compose an email, press send
What I want to say
I want to stand in front of you
I want to stand in your glow
In fact, 1000 words is not enough
I don’t want a limit
I don’t want some time
I want to stand here
Just hear you talk
Ask you questions, hear your mind
I can do this as long as you can
I can stand here
Watch the world melt away
Stars supernovae
I want to keep standing here
Standing in your glow
Finding out all about you
All there is to know

Disclaimer: This is not about anyone, this is not about you, just my general romantic view

Everything

God is not up
God is not down
God is not West
God is not East
God is not on your left
Not on your right
God is all around
In fact
God is not God, that is way too small
God is everything, all
God is not a name it’s a word
To think God is like you is simply absurd
I’ve stopped saying God
I’ve started saying everything
When I say everything, I mean all
Air, earth, ocean
Earth, sun, planets constant motion
If you want everything to show you what to do
Stop waiting for a voice
Just look inside you
Everything is everything
That means all things
Especially you, especially me
Most importantly us
We need all three

Commitment

Will you commit?
Will you stay and fight?
Will you never give up?
Always seek the light?

Should we start with what's wrong?
Let's not, we've been going over that for way too long
Let's just commit to make each day better than today
Each day a bit lighter, kinder
More beautiful and brighter

I've decided I'm going to commit
Started last night
That means: today begins the fight
The battle within
The challenge we all face:
Darkness or light

I commit to me
I commit to us
I commit to we
I commit to strength
I commit to mind
I commit to soul

This commitment will take a toll
That's why you should join
We will help each other get through
Especially when the times are tough
The road gets rocky, and more than rough
Just relax I'll be here
You can just stop
Catch your breath
I'll bring you water, help relieve your stress
When you're ready we'll keep going
I know you'll do the same
When I reach that point
Out of gas and full of pain

Let's commit
Because this year is not just a new year
It's a new age, a new world
A beginning for things to start to change

Questions 2: The Big Bang

What happened before the big bang?
There was nothing is easy to say
Or that it was simply God’s way
All people wonder, but few will look
Spend lots of time, read and write books
What if you find out an answer to this question?
There would be hysteria, madness, congress would hold a joint session
That answer may not just be it
Like all answers there will be more
Another question, a new thought
A whole new way to think of what we are
Regardless the answer you should always ask
Asking questions is never wrong
You should always simply ask why
It doesn’t matter if you will smile or cry
It is important just to ask
Always wonder, always question
Even when that questions is what happened before there was even thunder

I won't Be Silent

I won’t be silent
I won’t be mum
I won’t seal my lips
I won’t hold my tongue

Ignoring the issue is not a cure
The problems endure, the issues alive
Why can’t we talk?
Why can’t we thrive?

I’m sorry if what I said is hard to hear
So is life, so let’s be clear
Things don’t happen just cause,
Or get better over what one person does
Our world and lives improve when our position is no longer important
When we are all people,
One united

Let’s talk, let’s listen
That’s a two way street
We have our own thoughts, that’s fine
But I cannot stand thoughts
That are not from our own minds
We are not very different, virtually all alike
We don’t need to compete, we don’t need to fight
What we need is love, compassion
Please turn to the light
Let’s not wallow in darkness
Let’s join together

We are one, sister, brother

Take a moment, review your thoughts
Not ones from outside, ones within
They have been silent for far too long
We all have the information we need to remake our world
It takes time to listen to hear your thoughts

When we do, we realize our future can’t be bought
Worthless paper we give so much power
We should burn it, destroy it, make bankers cower
It does not serve us, it is not human
It makes us cheat, lie, and steal for one reason:
Just to get more
To stack piles higher
Keep making numbers larger and larger
Now we have more money than there are stars in the Milky Way
Problem being: our minds don’t know numbers that large
We cannot count stars
Our galaxy alone is so large and vast we can’t understand
So why should we expect to understand when the President asks
For another $2 billion for the war in Afghanistan

So again I won’t keep silent
I won’t hold my tongue
Won’t throw up my arms say: “nothing can be done”

The time is here, the day is now
Let’s start talking, not at each other
But to each other, as what we are to one another
Brother, sister, mother, lover

The Ocean

The ocean is vast and deep
it covers most of the earth
connects parts near and far
the ocean gives life, provides life
the ocean is a mysterious place

For most they will never know the depths
they will never know the vast openness
they will never spend time sailing
they will never spend time experiencing the true ocean

For most they experience the ocean at the beach
they sit on the edge and look at the water
some go to frolic in the waves
they feel the ocean’s power
most will never know the depths
never experience all the ocean is

I am like the ocean, vast and deep
only a few will ever venture into my depths
some will travel across my great distance
most will just be on the beach
some will play in my surf
they will only feel my power
and wonder how much more they can know

Forward

Stop! You can’t go this way!
This is backwards!

Onward, Forward
It’s the only direction

The rising sun is what we are searching for
Look onward to the horizon...