Justin Phillips

You find yourself glorified
through keyboard strokes
and lingo jokes,
tip-tip-tapping your way
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Give me patience, give me strength,
give me courage to forgive.
Help me find the Self inside
which causes me to love, to live.
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Is it too much to wish that I were cherished?
I thought that once I was, that I was cared for,
but now I find those false beliefs have perished,
and so I wonder what my heart was spared for.
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I marvel at how
my thin lungs
with their spongy tissue
can breathe in oxygen
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Oh, Teddy Bear, if you could speak,
to say the things I long to hear,
and Teddy Bear, if you could cry,
to shed with me a lonely tear...
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Look and you shall see
Seek and you shall find
Listen and you shall hear
the great thoughts of the Universal Mind.
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We didn't talk,
we didn't smile,
we only sat there for a while,
but you saw me
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I open my hands
and let words
spill across the keyboard,
leaking from my
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May tomorrow bring sunshine,
where today brought you rain,
may happiness find you
and ease all your pain.
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You sit in my heart
and you tear me apart
but I don't want you going away.
I'm beginning to find
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Thanks for the memories,
the good and the bad,
that make me smile
or make me sad.
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I saw a dog outside a bakery
-scraggly thing, ribs showing through-
just stood hungry, tired, in the doorway.
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Something
is tearing me apart,
shredding my heart,
and my insides
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I dreamt of ravens,
with milky green eyes
that stared,
and onyx plumage
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I get down on my knees and pray
my gratitude for another day.
I'll use it well and make it good,
adopting 'will' instead of 'would.'
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Ah, the little gold-haired girl
with wide bucket eyes that hold the world.
There is innocence in her fingers
with everything she touches,
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