Major Elazia Poems

A cold day
A time to move into the sun
To shine with sun's warmth
The temptations of a new day
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There is a sleep no man desires
There is something about that sleep
That sends fear down the hearts of men
That world unknown yet revered by fear
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You are not a painter
So cut for them some timber
Make fourteen chairs and more beds,
Add some tables
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If I try to go back into the hands of time
I can't recall the first day of my life
But with care and affection from mom I grew up
With the passing of age to school I went
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I loved you girl
Oh…how I loved you
With the world breaking apart
I loved you still
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There is no tomorrow,
We have been through yesterday,
We live in the present
And finally speculate about the future,
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I watch the world in helpless consternation
Not from a moral high stool but from a mind hanging
Dangling imaginatively in the emptiness of the skies
From a high cliff in the bare mountains the desert stretches far
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When I was down and lost in the jungle
Trudging along gorges and mountain crevasses
Staring into an empty vastness of mind and soul
Seeking a pole position to start a late race in life
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I speak my mind with my voice of criticism
In kindness I refuse to be subdued by my choice of words
And my message remains the same to the world
For shame may be the veil made of vile gold
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These are the words from my father
And they were echoed again to me by my mother
Words that have made me move further
Into the valid stories of my life
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