keith Durante Poems

So come now and gather,
young henchmen you design,
more work with less help,
this 'new' workplace you refine;
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Outside my window leaves tumble to the ground,
slowly rolling without the slightest sound,
a blue grey sky just waiting overhead,
autumn leaves gently hurry summer to bed;
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Wild and wicked, the world ever seeming,
while love is left to dreaming,
tempest of ill winds and merciless bombs,
such fury that only exhaustion calms,
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My spirit lay dead, no light in my eyes,
I chiristened each bar with outlandish lies,
empty and callous, I was spitting out sin,
denying rumors of where I'd been,
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Levi's, sandles, and album news,
the sacred order of our dues,
we came of age in sixty nine,
every whispered breath, a mystical sign,
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Rise up to torture that cripples the soul,
that which denies the world as a whole,
sanctify your bretheren with utmost care,
the joy of living, be willing to share,
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So often exasperated, I draw another breath,
slow it down, go easy, I'm racing to my death
more work, more worry, no time left to live,
does each anxious gasp mean one less to give,
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Long ago I gave up the notion,
that I could fill with heartfelt emotion,
it mattered no way, more or less,
if I felt my worst, if I felt my best,
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many times the sinner, never the saint,
overwhelmed with penance, it makes me feint,
outside my window birds chirp and chatter,
to them, it seems, heaven doesn't matter,
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It takes but a moment to slither and lie,
truth is captured in the wandering eye,
though it may seem a falsehood well done,
honesty is a bullet and truth the gun,
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