Justin Tanabe

I am drawn to you
Like a moth to a flame.
Again and again
I am incinerated by the fire in your eyes
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When I pass away
Bury me standing up
That is how I want to be remembered
As a person who was never brought to his knees
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Killing a human being
Is never a good thing.
Even in self defense.
Or in the fight for freedom.
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He was the devil incarnate
To call him a murderer.
A misogynist.
Is the greatest understatement.
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Sometimes in my nightmares
I relive that horrific day
when I picked up the phone
and heard you utter
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Sleep my darling
Rest in God’ arms
Like a cradled baby.
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Where art thou
My love
My darling.
Art thou sleeping on a cloud.
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Two lovers were trapped
on the top floor of the World Trade Center.
Because hell screamed from the sky
And collided with their earthly fate.
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April 20 will always be horrible
a horrible date.
For not only is it
the birth day of Adolf Hitler
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Gabriel took her home last night
He wrapped his wings around her
As the sky opened and pulled
Both of them up.
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I am a survivor of a holocaust
The horror of which
most people could not imagine.
I was brutally beaten and raped by an S.S officer
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REDEMPTION

He was dreaming he was a bird
that had flown far, far away
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In my nightmares
The charred bodies of Hiroshima
Speak to me.
They say we are this way
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I remember when I met Cinderella
at the ball.
She was so beautiful
like a fountain
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Life is beautiful
Bask in its sunshine, rainbows
and morning mist.
There is beauty everywhere
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If I had to choose
between an eternity
in heaven without you
And an infinity
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They said human beings would never fly
Never conquer the sky
Yet the Wright Brothers
gave the world wings
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With this ring
I promise you a love that shines
on the pansies
And fathers their intoxicating perfume
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My dying wish is not to go
to Disney land.
Or meet a famous movie star.
My wish is for my mom to not cry
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War is our failure as human beings.
Failure to love thy neighbour.
Failure to love thy enemies.
Failure to differentiate ourselves from monsters.
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