The young ones
Now facing first encounters With crisis Life and death Threats to basic humanity Surround each other With supports hugs assurances Those at the center shake with alarm At flying so close To the sun They are earning their bones The old ones Are now having babies A startling change occurs Between parent and child These are not the times when Children are seen and not heard The old ones now in silence Gaze at the wunderkind Holding forth on unintelligible Discoveries endlessly fascinating Children coddled with breast Bottle and diapers Long past necessity What is the correlation Staving off death Preserving infancy Thus the young And the old Struggle in new frontiers And will see the repercussions In time
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Murphy has been in overdrive
All morning Every action causes Disruption eruption Straight up wrong turns With each snafu Take a breath Don't hit the roof Hit the brakes Expand and open A tower of power Smile at Mr. Murphy In the middle of
This sprawling city We are lost in a Fantasy world Walled in to keep The city out The magic in Tiny ponies freed at night Feed at night Munch grass Keep it shorn The llamas don't spit They languorously slouch along The buzz saw voice of A turquoise parrot Shatters the peace Until a pretty girl Will flatter him Magic can be conjured up Here in the Land of mansions And walls Honey in a voice
Heartbeat bass Passion Pours out of the speakers Floods the room with Swampy blue raw and real Some groove Some nod Others are lost In their own game Music just background noise The singer Eyes shut Is somewhere we can't go We watch We feel Part of her Part of the blue night That swirls around her vortex To force growth
The gardener Nips the bud Forces the lower leaves Is this against nature To cut off movement In one direction Cause a detour Dam a river Creale a pool Or waterfall What of a person Not allowed to grow Express himself Forced to stop Choose another road Is this not against nature What if the child Is allowed to Live his vision Express his passion Just as nature Seems to intend I want to see What wonders Might be revealed |