Terence George Craddock Poems

it is true that each life
has only one lifetime
and one chance to reveal
all potential all possibilities
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babies born with life threatening
illnesses life threatening deformities
may but a single breath live transpire
immediately or experience ephemeral
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it seems a lesson for the living
not for brief flickering lights
passing into lost death nights
not lessons for brain impaired
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you cannot have a perfect person
you cannot have a perfect life
but you can have a perfect poem
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I could easily argue
that God is not fair
that babies are born
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acknowledge the crime obvious
throughout the entire net world
in the most rich elite technology
advanced countries in the world;
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neglect obvious has dimmed awareness
beneath shattered lives hopes dreams
pain feelings suffering in fog minds
abandoned when house of cards fell;
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when you were young and wise a teenager
when girls looked at you with puppy dog eyes
you had an easy choice not to hurt their hearts
if you knew exactly what they wanted in their hearts
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writing in dreams can achieve seamless perfection glorious

to write a poem perfect in a dream is an energizing bliss
but to remember the poem upon waking is not a near miss
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