J.D Lynch

You can break what's broken

You can shatter what's shattered
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</>The hand of good looks, money, a wonderful girl, a family, and soon an Ace is across from me

I am stuck here with a 2,7, Jack,5, and 8, of which the 2 and 7 are suited
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I know better

Than to treat you this way
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Tonight I write about Tomorrow

Tomorrow I break tonight
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Through the Valley we walk side by side

Behind your friends and next to civilization
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You found your dreams below the mountain you just climbed
Your princess is in another castle
Your dreams come to you, and the more you follow your dreams, the less they come
Of failure, and failure once more
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It was a wet, humid April night where our story unfolds
We see Zach driving down the street, a dark skinned tall man, his demeanor cold
A strike of lightning as wind and hail pound the pavement
His departure and reason known by many, it needs no statement
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I was there when you were there when she was there and we were all together
I was there when you had a momentary lapse of reason
I was there when she said she said it was never
And I was there on the unlucky day Sexy Sadie made a fool of everyone
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I am clean, I am no longer spiraling away
No more falling, no more calling my way
Today is the last time I say this is the last day
As you waltz away in life's segue
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Poetry is not what it is taught to be, it's not just a bunch of lines set to a rhyme
to express a point and read in a coffee joint. It's not meter, it's not beat,
it's what you want it to be, anything. It's a polyopoly, it has different meaning
for different beings. It's taking a beer can littered in a park and turning it in
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