Ruerd Visser Poems

The demons are well prepared,
but since it's truth or dare.
I'm confident the archangel Michael,
will come in a blaze of glory.
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If the say that life is hard to bear,
do you readily believe them, and why?
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An eternity ago our world was at peril,
and plunged itself into darkness.
The darkness beheld the world,
and all on it.
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Who loves the crooked man?
The kind that seems hard to bear.
Who loves the crooked man?
just like admiring a crooked tree
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A present awaits us,
from a life unknown.
and yet strangely familiar,
asthe one parttakes in the sharade
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Blessed are my enemies,
the ones that push trough.
Nothing more embarassing,
then friends that don't know
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I stand strong
But it won't last long.
Before the will of the heart
will test my resolve.
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Strong as bones is my soul,
like a rock she radiates her primal force.
Strong as bones is my life,
like a tree standing tall.
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You are a part of the whole of life
parttaking in it.
And even when you take it for granted
that you're alive.
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How often do i speak 'the truth',
to learn that the only thing
that is true, is that i speak.
How often do i say that
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