shrapnel: fragments of a bomb

fragments of a bomb, embedded in my skin not to much to debate about, get a pair of tweezers and jump right in and with each painful pull, i remind myself again: relationships are like  grenades…………………….harmless until you pull the pin old Ben told me when he was alive ” you are better off just…

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perception

1 the trickle of water: a/ was enough to fill my cup, if i was patient b/made me long for loud torrents of rain c/started to weaken and stopped to a trickle 2 after reviewing my notes i realized… a/i had focused on areas that mirrored my own opinion b/i had captured the essence of…

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cutting down the colortree

parents place their children under the colortree they point to the color that looks like me, i will pick this one now it belongs to me……………………. now i have been placed in a box,with others like me, because if your color is different ………………we are not the same, separate i will live life bright like…

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too busy giving thanks

God does things we don’t understand, like Texas, like Texas   to stop us in our tracks and make us turn around, like Texas, like Texas   nobody is talking about race, too busy giving thanks, in Texas, in Texas   God will do what He needs to do …………………..like Texas, like Texas ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. the…

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empty

when something is not filled or occupied……………………………………………. the tides of life will upend and turn us inside out and upside down i have never seen a person so spiritually fit, that they do not waver from time to time and question their faith……………………………don’t believe it will happen on this side of the fence why am…

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lucky dog

my name is lawrence drummond, most of my colleagues and friends call me L.D. i was a successful lawyer in this town and a successful drunk, who got sober some time ago and continues to be in total awe of the sober life…………how it has affected me, my family, my associates and the people God…

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who much is your word worth?

parable: the value of your word the obins were a simple people……………….after the great tumult, the day the rearrangement took place and everything that was in place as far as systems or currency were replaced by the value of ones’ word. so no one had to carry money, only a code was needed that designated…

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bricklayers

the apprenticeship is over/we are both skilled masons/ able to demolish and construct walls instantly how easily we learn when we apply ourselves/ unfortunately we never learned how to build doorways…………………………………… for that we have paid dearly, we’re fired

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