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the town had just come into view as the western sky turned a brilliant blue he pulled up alongside a prickly pear lit up a stogie and rested his mare how long will this beauty last he'd wonder the calm was hushed by distant thunder no time to dawdle as the blue went gray it's rollin' in fast best be on our way the echoes roll in the western...

The old lane cutting through the woods to the end of the road was a midnight high school highway, kids following the call of youth under shadows thrown down by conspiring elms and oaks, limbs seemingly beckoning to a place of their dreams, the boys next day smiling and bragging, thinking they were now men, the girls hoping they weren’t carrying...

It is an incredibly beautiful world. Some people choose to add to it, While it eats at others so much, They lash out in a storm of ruin. Imagine that we could consume it- To place the beauty of life inside, To digest it for a time eternal... But it merely dances on the senses. See, humanity is a push-pull train, Where our looming death is the...

Shivering spring blues thaw into summer gold, You're too far gone for me to ever hold, But never will I ever forget the day When I left goldenrod on your grave. And if I could pray for anything at all, I'd pray I can join you when summer turns to fall.

Stubborn refusal to talk to me Means I’ll never understand, Why every step I take To close the gap Is another step she takes away Autism grates on every nerve A pain no one deserves But when does refusal to heal Stop being the fault of illness, When does the swearing and threats Become a crime, And not just disease, 2025… another year, The more...

What do you do? With the thoughts, The feelings How do you begin to understand how to help? Someone you love, dissolving in their own sorrow Because the unthinkable has become real How do you keep them afloat, keep the world from crushing them? How did Atlas do it? Their pain is mine, their hurt my own I adopted it when I chose to love them But...

Oblivion May Beckon Dame Fortune takes the pillion as Lord Fate begins to steer the future now seems doubtful and the road ahead's unclear All plans are now worth nothing as past schemes you now abort before they take your every dream and drive them out of court With big changes in the offing new faces behind the helm we're baying for...