SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS

~ Survival Gear ~

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One that can cut, break, or work through just about anything.

One or more that can illuminate paths and shed light on pitfalls.

One that can provide warmth and start fires.

One that is a means of sharing pieces meant to uplift, and the truth told in loving stories.

And one that can do all four.

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We set up boundaries to replace them,

and draw lines in the dirt to erase them.

We fence things out in search of the never ending win,

without having the wisdom to ask what we’re fencing in.

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Famine and feast settle in with the writer.

The winter snuggles up with the rest. Painting fang marks of the not-so itsy bitsy spider, lifting up the sunken in chest.

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When bridges are burned and forgotten, left to decay in the wind, our own hearts can turn and grow rotten, such that we search for however we sinned. But the lack of continued drift,

is no cause for lack of love or applause, it is merely how time has felt led to sift, and all involved have beauty and flaws.

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A nation divided in more ways than one,

whose wounds are fresh and unsealed,

From within we are becoming undone,

and our truth will soon be revealed.

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Where is the calm that you flee to when the impending storm can be seen?

Where is the port in your life for safe docking?

Where can the storm emanating from within be filed as a magazine?

From where does the storm come knocking?

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For we are as much as our efforts combined, minus the corners we cut,

divided by the dangers we don’t mind,

multiplied by the love in our gut.

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The wheels of time keep moving,

grinding their gears as they go,

and the reels of rhyme keep proving,

the findings of what you and I know.

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I will lead you down the path to the kingdom,

but you must first show me the way to your heart,

for everyone there is wondering what you will bring them,

especially your innermost part.

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