BondEBarbra
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
An American's Dream
Friday, September 27, 2024
Perpetuity
Thursday, September 26, 2024
It's Enough
It's enough that you exist in this world
There is no lack of communication
There is no amount that can be misunderstood
There is no bad breath in the morning
There is no tick or nook
There is no scheduling issue
There is no candy you snuck
There is no friend who is too annoying
Or risk that you took
There is no amount of groveling
No title lost
There is no hair in the sink
There is no dish misplaced
There is no snoring too loud
There is no styling conflict
There is no distance
Or doubt
There is no day too rainy
Nor one too lit
There is no moment you could lose me
There is no shroud
There is nothing that will jump out here
Nothing that leaves and comes back around
There is no day I magically wake up
Unhappy to see you on solid ground
There is no chance or luck for someone else
There is no shoe or glove that better fits
There is no story I'd rather have read aloud
There is no other path I'd take that didn't lead me here
Nor sacrifice I wouldn't have made
There is no other wayward wind I'd choose to sail
But the one that brought me near
There is no direction change
Where I don't support you dear
I only ask that you continue to exist in this world
It seems at times to be so frail
Caught in a delicate balance
Between those who hope and the naysayer
You are a light
Just bright enough
It can be seen across the sea
A docking place for those lost, and
For those who would otherwise be
A place of curiosity
Cavernous and rough
A place to come together
To build cool stuff
There is no greater creation
There is no bird, or rock
There is no other fire, nor warmth
You will always be enough
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Most Days
Most days I forget all that I've lost.
It is only in the daily interactions with others
That I have moments I recall what all is missing;
Mostly this comes as a shock. "Look at all that I once had!?"
None of which I was all that deserving.
All of which I worked so hard to acquire and invest
Was but life's blessings.
Not everyone's hard work pays off, I was lucky.
And perhaps now I am not.
But
Most days I forget all that I have lost.
I feel full and free and eager and ready
There seems to me so much more in life than I was imagining.
I think of love especially.
I think of friendship and of family.
I think that perhaps what I lost was really not for me.
That it is what now lays ahead
That which I cannot fully see
Of which life is customizing an opulent thanksgiving.
None of which I will be all that deserving.
All of which I will continue to work hard to acquire and invest
Will be but life's blessings.
Not everyone's hard work pays off, I'd be so lucky
And perhaps be able to share all that I've got.
But
Most days I forget all that there is yet still to lose
I feel like time will run out not
There always seems to be more of it with each tick and tock
No deadline too important to push off
I wonder if the sense of urgency will ever come about
And then I remember life's blessings
All of those I've lost,
All of which I have,
All of the possibilities left within each day still had.
And perhaps most importantly,
The significance of my actions, being most important
After my death
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Bigger Than Us
Whether it is bread crumbs or pebbling
I find myself sustained, walking on solid ground
My heart unwavering,
Even when my head is not always able to wrap itself around
I find no reason, no need, to reason with myself
In life it is our motivations that move us -
to higher ground
A longing for love is not fruitless,
Even unrequited I am fulfilled
The state of being is enough -
to leave one vying for beauty, brilliance, and sound
Inspiring the master to craft and leader to pick up their staff
Love is a many splendid thing,
With which you can do most anything
The pure of heart and imaginative minds
Lifting the spirit of our human kind,
Planting seeds from the Divine -
for a future full and lasting for all of time
Friday, August 16, 2024
Strange rs
Strange rs
The Prelude:
denoting physical and intellectual exceptionalism
designed with purpose, an occasion
particular to what is only belonging within you
different and unusual
extraordinary
whose dimples gave in with each grin
who grew to a man for whom I might stand
an honorable and integral human
like winter, summer, and spring before the fall
one to touch my lips against your skin
one to nibble at your brow
one to kiss your nose and whisper nothing
one to find your tender, your gentile parts
one to caress a work of art
We may not know every note in advance
But there is joy in the beat
Up and down
In and out
Through and through
A melody to create with you
"I Love You!"
but Wind took it
and he could not hear
as Echo followed
'round the bend
landing upon another's ear
like dial up
then speeds up
transmitting messages
via protocol
Hyper text
blame it on the caffeine
still up looking for my IP
team v, at the caravansary
gets complicated, having
education done, at the organization
your domain now hun
name the system
I'll play
like it wasn't just a stroke of dumb luck
anyway
You are sitting in the heart of God
The love here is infinite
Let yourself relax and be in the moment
Let time lapse, have fun with it
Conversation is its own art
When our two tongues
Become too tied, to speak
Let us breathe Love
Our common language
Left like a map among the stars
We followed
Because no one stopped us
The way I like it
It's when you shine your brightest
I dream of you knowingly
Even traveling in light-years
I may never reach you
Before thine own energy runneth out
Nevertheless I go willingly
For what is a life without a dream
Happiness without the pursuing
Will you shine brighter
I wonder
Will it be a good match
Blindly I will follow you
Cherish and honor you
Will you be a good man
for my heart is full and I, a wright
I silence the noise inside my head
reflect on the images, across my eyelids
know that this body is mine to give
one at a time you spoke to me
that was, after you all rushed in
what could I do but bleed for you
uneducated and not heaven sent
that's when Kindness came
to sit upon my sill
smiled so shyly, ever so slyly
I couldn't resist her will
with each flutter and each flip
I responded in jest
much for the encouragement
this was my dream, an' I
a responsibility to realize it
when no one else can tell
the ache of eternal suffering
sits dormant, waiting in it's cell
when it comes, it often goes
at times it's mine, at times it's yours
but every time it needs my love
and every time it needs a hug
Even on the best of days
when everything is fine
flying high and laughing long
absorbed by the sky
finding joy in all the things
reminders I'm alive, yet
there it sits, silently
a sentencing for life
We fly by dwarfs
The small minded
We cooper belts here
Repair lost boys
For the long trek
A space crafted
Full of instruments
Applied physics
We made it to the Sky
Where, Olaf red
Preserved and frozen
Our birth, our death
A time and space
Stardust scattered
To find its place
A home less
Vacuumed
A resting trace
Make like Love
A couple
Babies too
Just me and you;
Enter in
Our prelude
The Chase:
I want to be in my flow
Not against my current (DC)
Within reason constantly shifting
A balancing act consistently (AC)
I am electricity
Like lightning, not pulling
I'll travel down the string
Wrapped tightly in hand
Like a theory sung out loud
On a windy day
I will thunder
You will go further
You will create new ways
To describe days without me
Black out, Brown out, Power failure
You will wonder what
You ever did without me
A bastard child of Zeus
Or a mold of Jupiter
A Great Red Spot
Ripping the air apart
Try and get around me
With the biggest seams
No rings, but stripes and swirls
Twirls and raging girls
Romans winning
Each other over with pearls
The sea is not dead
You will find yourself buoyant
Though the salt may sting
Your wounds will heal
Sterilely, a fire cleanse
From which you arise
Dreaming of all that could be
High like a kite
Dancing among the clouds
Charged and crashing into you
Satellites, Observers from another time
The Fringe is where we cuff it, right?
He did not know her, nor she him
But something in the stars had told
Of their coming together, an omen
Nebulous perhaps, to begin
The girl followed her heart, she wrote him
She wrote and wrote, without fail
For to know, she must confess
The longing within her, the tenderness
Never letting doubt dissuade
Never letting it creep in
This was her dream, in which she had awaken
Like, "The Dawn of a New Era… three decades ago"
She too had burst, flinging star dust
Out into the universe, carrying hope
Her light, power blazing
Brighter than a hundred million suns
He could not unsee her
Though time lapsed, while space expanded
A ring formed, enriched by the elements
Components of a life well lived
Beyond this is not X-ray vision
To see inside the box, one must be diligent
Embrace the waves of each passing region
Believe the cat will be there next season
As Spring will come again
So too will new reasons
For this universe to form
Accompanying thy love,
there is no greater meaning
Match maker
Make me a Match
Wood pulp, dried grass
Steel abs, stone ass
Potassium chlorate in Pyrex
Glue, red phosphorus up next
Oh let's not react
Keeping our distance leaves us in tact
Rose colored goggles can't protect you from that
Well, then..
Find me a find
Catch me a catch, of my own
MIT grad
Scratch that
Holden out
Gotta catch me in the rye
Making bread
Drinking whiskey all night
With plans to see through
At morning's first light
Sunrise, Sunset
Some broken glass
And we are both upset
Can't forget what was said
Can't forgive what we've done
There is no getting back
What was lost or the ways things could have been
Playing the strings of my heart
Light footed as you dance above
A jester,
Beckoning for me,
Or so I thought
A fiddler,
Come to tinker,
Come to tango,
Comin' in step to my melody
Something sweet,
Something sultry,
Got foul, like poultry
Flew the coup
It's an insult to me
Where's the loyalty
Always escaping, me
Caught light, put out
Smoked, screened
Stood out, side lined
Worried about myself
No more T or A just ME
Laying down the roof
Looking up
Waiting for a sign
Created up above
While it rebuilt itself around me
New formations of land rose and fell
Beloved dinosaurs standing no longer
Stuck in tar, unable to feed any more
I felt great loss all around me
Yet it was here I saw for the first time
The birds developed before my eyes
I heard their first chirps
Observing as they leapt
My breath caught in my chest
Upon their first soaring
The sky was blue and blood red
The fires had not yet calmed
Volcanic debris constantly scattering
Lava rocks began forming
It was an untamed land
Not yet ready for farming
We were still scavengers
Picking at scraps, the life
Left in the corpses
Where we found our sustenance
In what had been left behind
Not yet devoured
By the gaping hole
The broken earth
The unsteady ground
We walked on
It only felt as if the world had ended
But proof lay all around us
New creatures evolved from the ashes
New plant life
New ways for breathing, to take place
In a world no smaller
And blooming with ever more might
Resilience and strength
Our genetic lifelines
Passed down throughout time
Conveying the messages
We still need to survive
At a time that does not exist
I kissed you once
I felt your skin upon my skin
It could not be mistaken
The energy that passed between
Forever changed in direction
A depolarization, only to be returned
Upon awakening
In this world, not yet observed
What is possible seems endless
My imagination run amuck
Making quite a mess of it
Of which I care not
I swim in the seas of no regret
I blow like the wind through the trees
I rustle the leaves
I sing, from the mountain top
And upon my knees
Knowing only the need
The craving, the desperate plead
It is here I planted the seed
I saluted the sun
Prayed to the heavens above
Not to be denied this one love
But it was only upon the horizon
I was to see, a holograph of what could be
Information collected
Having been only from my perspective
Would never be enough to create certainty
Like entropy, my memory
I began to question this reality
The one in which we kissed
But having already planted my seed
I found it impossible to leave
My love was now rooted deep
In this soil, fertile or not
It was the one worthy of the reap
My light having gathered here
In the darkness, I felt no fear
Having traveled so far to get so near
On the edge of the unknown
I found rest, a willingness to let go
Knowing the future is a place not yet been
Relative to a time not yet known
from what may have been a dream
I saw your face before me
unable to make out the details
I felt your warmth
your presence from within
squinting into the darkness
adjusting to the light
I reached out for you
my grasp not catching
and into the fog you faded
I ran making helicopter motions
with my arms swinging desperately
I could not take flight without you
you were within me and yet lost
somewhere out there in the mist
too cold for breading grounds
but they say the birds call this the south
winter is not new to me, oft' caught out of season
staying too long, giving every reason
I knew you before this year, this time and space
I woke up one day and saw your face
I was scarlet draped in hair
you stood there, not giving a damn
a high hill to climb, the strong will
good things come in good time
and I knew from that very moment
from which I awoke, that you were mine
the beat of your heart, the breath in your lungs
the chromosomes which could only have come
from having been within me
always there, your presence, your light
you are the eternal warmth
with which I awake, from each night
I meant, with you I felt safe
When you wrote this upon my leg
The word, 'Safe'
I thought to myself
What a beautiful world we now live in
One in which we both found haven
After such a treacherous road
We'd both crossed
Finding ourselves unbroken
Two whole people
Ready to face the world again
Wrapped in new love, open and willing
I'll never know what happened
Not to that day
Or that moment in time
I could not capture
I could not keep
What I was so certain then was mine
The tenderness of so many memories
Only to be lost with time
As safety became an illusion
Our words sharp as knives
This world we had created
Now broken, living separate lives
I do not remember
What other words you had written
Nor do I recall all that's been said
But I know what we had found
Was overridden
On another timeline, with a new sound
When I said I loved you
I had meant it, a thing I cannot regret
But the virus that tore through our system
Nearly left me for dead
both breaks and rebuilds
itself in fractals
Shattering in perfect order
Along paths
that needed redistributing
As the shapes shift
Along with the size
Of each load-baring wall
A new dome is created
Where light is let in
Not hiding the cracks
But exposing the mortar
I am littered with
Mosaic temples and Girih shrines
Covered in universal geometric designs
Speaking to me, reaching out
Through the fabric of time
A reminder of my fate
Being part of a larger paradigm
One which I am not meant to see
From a distance, but more intimately
To know the structure
To care for it tenderly
To seal the surface
After each seismic refraction
Lay temple to pray in
Keep sanctity
Where ripples dance
In a Fibonacci romance
Where the sum of two
Is always greater than
That which preceded it
Through the neighborhoods
Around town
I often hear an owl
Though I can not see it
I search among the trees
Knowing it is there
It's figure hidden
In the leaves, and
It reminds me of you
Like the sun and the moon
Sharing the same sky
Playing different roles
But ever present
One not always within the other's sight
But whose arrival is guaranteed
Forgiven for not always returning
At the same time
Like waves being pulled in
And out with the tide
By a celestial guide
There is rhythm in each motion
A count, a lullaby
A beat to build on
Set tempo to
The foundation of a song
Hoo Hoo
Even the birds sing to
Miles from the shore
A melody carried in the wind
The rushing roar of the ocean
Never really ending
But ebbing and flowing
Rising and falling
The cycle of precipitation
Caught in the atmosphere
A silly little bird
Having fun as the clouds draw near
Finding cover in that which is rooted
To the ground
But still reaches out
To the same sun and moon
Replenished by the same rain
Falling down
Coming from some far off coast
Having nothing better to do
Than dance along with the music
Nature's sounds
Taking lead as the Earth continues
to make its rounds
That awaits us
A time and place
Specially for us
I hear the voices
Laughter surrounds us
Warmth from within
Settled but flying high
Storm clouds don’t scare us
Lightening excites us
Harnessed, projected
Catalyst of our forefront
There is a future
Not so mysterious
For I have seen it
I've felt its presence
I'm here to tell you
Not to fear it
Keep moving forward
Don't be hesitant
Made especially for you
Every moment
And through the tears, you will see
A peak protruding
A place to climb
You'll see this future
Is sublime
Yes, in this future
There will be struggle
There will be hard times
We cannot always rise
But come each day's end
We'll be the best of friends
Harvesting our growth
Turning each bend
Finding each other
Time and again
Shooting at starlight
Destinations ahead
There is a future
Might be Red
On a distant planet
On terraformed land
Where there is always something
To discover
Walking hand in hand
Able bodied
Dutiful to our land
The world that had been created
For us, eternally blessed
Not righteous, but not less
A daily practice
At being our best
Cultivating harmony
In abundance
And for the many
The love between us
Bright and binding
Carried on the wings of angels
Deployed with perfect timing
It was with you I discovered
The greater significance
Under the sun we leapt
Joyful bodies
Delighted in our land
The world that we had created
For us, eternally blessed
Not cautious, but not less
A calculated decision
The sum of our best
Courting symphony
An orchestra
Played for the many
The love between us
Complex and variety
Carried on the wings of angels
Deployed with perfect timing
It was with you I discovered
The greater consonance
Under the sun we laid
Breathing bodies
On gracious land
A world evolving, still
For us, eternally blessed
Not ambitious, but not less
A worthy goal
Brought to fruition
A choreographed synchrony
Having maintained balance
Among the many
With love between us
A crescendo in tempo
Carried on the wings of angels
Deployed with perfect timing
It was with you I discovered
The greater purpose
Note from the Author.
Author
Barbra E. Bond
Strange rs
Thursday, May 23, 2024
This is peace
When the tide comes in
Washing away
Debris along the shore
Left by the many
Onlookers, non-participants
Critics of what's been left
Creators of division
Without the ability of maths
Out of sight
But still adding up
Filling our oceans with plastic
Not snatched in the fishing nets
Scraping along the bed
Everything else getting caught
And tossed back
Death is slow
A grinding away, loss of lubricant
Bone on bone on rock
We chip away
Become sharp edges
Better tools for the slaughter
Eating whatever comes by next
Starving but well fed
This is peace
A place
Where nothing is good enough
So we create problems
A moral rot
Stuck on board
Our water filled with salt
There will be no quenching
Of this thirst
Having come from this water
Return we cannot
Ever evolving
A species transcending
And not ordinary
Unsatisfied, determined
Unwilling to settle
For what we've got:
Minds finding patterns
Others passed on
Dangerous thoughts
Revealing the human
Magnificence
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Our Loving Sun
We needed help
Lost on an island
Too large
To communicate well
You sent a flare
A massive solar storm
Out into the darkness
The everlasting night
An expanding space
Where the magnetic energy
Polarized and surrounding us
Caught charged particles
Now dancing
Rhythmically
Interpreting a story
From a time past
When our body's spoke
Revolutions before
Language not yet w/ our tongues
Our eyes, a looking glass
Knowing our insignificance
The care we had
For each other, all there was
Gave our lives importance
Your warmth
Could only do so much
It was together
We found enough
Sustaining sustenance
Lit fires
Replicated rounded rocks
Went places
Discovered
What otherwise we could have not
Inspiring journey
To outlast
Our loving sun
Monday, April 1, 2024
Mine
taking responsibility
knowing these choices
were mine alone
I dare to look forward
to stand on my own
I will find a way through
this forest, this fog
I will not hold expectations
I will not presume
I hope for good tidings
for joy to continue to bloom
in my heart I have everything
in my lungs, more room
with my hands I hold tightly
this life I was not owed
the reasons for existing
will always be unknown
a purpose for persisting
an exercise for me to own
I dare to look forward
embracing the unknown
the end may be near
but the path not fully sown
seeds left to plant
room left to grow
reaching for the sky
what is possible to become
is mine to own
Saturday, March 23, 2024
POST /Pardon.me
POST /Pardon.me
Rabbit Hole
Worthable
Assembling Theories
Terra
Mares
Deserted
gloriAwaitS
Legacies:
Winning Time
Protect & Serve
Pledge, Allegiance
Antifa
GrownGrumps
Where
in the darkness
Rabbit Hole
I wish there was a way to reach you, to find a way to help relieve you. It’s an insatiable quest, making you only a guest - at your own birthday party. I wish there was something I could tell you that would make the longing dissipate.
You must learn to Live. You must learn to Love. You must learn to Laugh. You must Learn, my Love.
I wish there was a way to teach you, not yet have I traveled those plains. Please don’t believe that I’ve left you, I will never forget your screams. Searching for a way to reach you. Longing to show you I care. Lost in the rain; I pledge to find you. This is both truth and D.A.R.E.
My Love,
Huddled and scarred you are not see’d less, the Embassy Ball awaits you; Flower Girl, Bloomed, New Spread, Eagle Scout. You let it all out My Love, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I wish there was a way to reach you, unburden the weight; I see you. Always making a stand, shoulder width, armored up. It’s your story Arc, but tonight lay down your sword. May we chase rabbits again? Remember a time when childhood rhyme was more than a way to pass the time. It brought us the New World, Wonderland, TF-X “drive!”. Hope, for a future still being dreamt up; divine.
Alice, pacing again, if only I could reach you. Keep you safe, keep you warm. If only I knew the way to reach you, I’d hold you in my loving arms.
Worthable
Did you know your self-worth as a young child? Did it ever cross your mind how powerful you were; the miracle of each breath you took. Did it ever feel like the air was stolen for you from someone else, or that it was a gift to you, free without a cost.
Did you know your self-worth as you took your first steps? Did you feel the ground you walked on belonged to anything other than your feet, or knees when you’d fall. Could you imagine that this was not yours to once again stand upon.
Did you know your self-worth when you learned how to jump, to cartwheel through the fields? How your hands held you up even when your legs wobbled and kicked landing in a heap, were you not still proud? The act itself feeling an accomplishment.
Did you know your self-worth when the bully pushed you down? Did you forget the power in standing back up upon the very earth that god had gifted you. When you gasped for air, that could not be denied, with each punch. Did you forget, is that why you chose to stay down.
Did you forget what you had been given? Choice. A Free Will. The ability to continue to breathe, to become … The Great. Did you forget your self-worth, thus taking no action to overcome. Blaming the bully for what they had done and defining now ‘Power’ as an image of them.
Did you forget? Your self-worth was not tied up in them, but the feet you stood on, and the air in your lungs; the hands you used to shape your world, even when upside down. Did you know your self-worth through the actions you took, making you strong. Integrity and character established must be practiced lifelong.
Assembling Theories
There is an art to assembly
Like Smalls you take inventory
Size up the structure and deliberate
Listenin' to Moms take up a teammate
The possibilities seem endless, but are
Known to be confined none the less
Building bridges to fill the gaps
Between biology and physics
We are always trying to predict what comes next
Theorizing our own origins
Objects under duress
Coerced and threatened, not always acting our best
More than stressed
Our histories intertwined, recursive
Pursuant of the sublime
Creating classes so that we might better define
The configuration of this point in time
Our framework lacking the ability to unite
Constrained by the finite, a sense of being limited
In strength and might, broken on the inside
Was it not Cain's jealousy that ended Abel's life
Letting emotions drive, the mechanisms of bitterness
Unfulfilled lives, bondless and out of sight
Being too complex to replicate
The novelty of individuality, lost on the atomic
Minds unwilling to self-reflect
Always taking the shortest path
Unwilling to combine new lessons with old rhymes
Building fences in a straight line
When waves and arches do just fine
Demanding less resources, still
Standing for the longest time
Strung up and indexed
A representation of our lives
Only increasing in size
Molecular information easily copied
With descriptions left undefined
Skill sets left unquantified
Producing no known value
Muti-steps in every wrong direction
On a loop, stacking up each indiscretion
Universally, unrealistic
Dynamics unnaturally complex
Searching for validation in chemicals
Cast down from heaven, not sent
Selecting my path, impassioned
Morphing and grafting images
Inside my head, using messenger
Thoughts encrypted, to which access was not meant
Targeting objects unmeant
Catalysts in the downfall
Not asked to rebuild the environment
Co-conspirators
Single celled organisms
Copied and uncomplex
Look at US
Wandering the halls of Modern Art
Asking which box we all fit
Terra
In the midst I see you fade away
When I need you most you take more time
I stay right where you left me
hoping for my next handout, leg up, back bend;
I learned how to do somersaults, but no one explained it quite like this
Getting back on my feet, I stumbled and laughed at it.
Most parts of my body have a mind of their own
and often are going in different directions.
Eventually we come together though.
United We Stand. A Sovereignty. My Land
to care for, to tend to, support supply and demand.
Alone we come into this world, alone we will leave it,
and alone is also the journey in between it.
The relationships we create with ourselves are the only ones truly needed.
When you find compliments to your music, dance fearlessly;
inspire your muses
Open the gates for only the truest.
Loneliness is not to be dreaded it is a reminder of there being room for more
more ‘me time’, more opportunities,
more discovery of that which we do not yet know.
We may have lost a dream, or had to let one go
My Love, there is always Tuscany
Under the Sun
Perhaps in your loneliness you will find a new interest;
this is not to say you will find new joy or love, but
You will find a new flow, a way to pass the time
while life cooks up its next course to serve you
Constant preparation for each trepidation
in the midst it all dissipates.
Mares
Night mares living in a dream,
But it's always a nightmare.
Books of revelations, knights on mares
Signs of the apocalypse, no one cares.
Royal at Windsor, small men riding high
May the best man win; Anything Goes
In love or war, what’s left is what's to work with
All is fair when there is nothing left to share.
Starving from our own form of sustenance,
What keeps you fed?
The salt of my tears, the taste of my bread?
Is it the juice in my fridge, or the temperature I kept?
Nightmares each morning
In my head, crazy
that this is always what had to be
Born with scArlet fever, but
too stubborn to lay down and die.
Dedicated to the terra, mothered cradled tight;
Cometh from the land, for which may I steward
My rose bed, Care for the seeds I left,
dreams with ample room
Reaching, stretching out toward the sun light
Morning dew left from the humid night, not arid
But thirsty, hungry for life
Hopeful, not every dream will I awake from
Hurting, growing pains,
There is no more waiting on the Queen
Lost in translation long ago,
messages meant to bring us closer
Expressions of honesty, left us drained,
Crucifixions for testimony, our hands stained.
There's no turning back, not staged
One chance, and sometimes we aren't ready yet.
HINT: Stay disciplined, no matter the night you kept
You've got this shit, 'slayed dragons in a world apart
Played every part: dragon, pilot, artillery, good shot,
spotted, snake, spineless, a corrupt heart,
Found my fresh start, mastered the page,
Fell in love with the art, found the exit, in-sight
No clowns, no poltergeist, won't suck me in
Won't lose my fight, living in my dream,
A sixth sight, each night,
guiding all 17 hands to new heights
Me and my Shire re-writing the end of times
The horsemen are covered in wreaths of dandelions
Little girls upon My Little Ponies,
unable to control themselves
Too free to recognize that they are still screeching
Fauns in the new world, fallin’ out
Came to and just walked out,
had enough Vanilla Sky
In control and it's lights out,
Living in my nightmare,
When I scream, does anyone else hear?
Deserted
Lost, in all the deceit; it's been years
all they had on me was a hot temper
my bad, got tired of staying so sweet
under all this heat, nowhere to run to
blessed are the nights when I get some sleep
stabbed in the back, misrepresented
no tuna, dolphin meat
top of the food chain, still getting eat
Flipper, can't believe his eyes
once loved and adored, getting beat in The Cove,
won't be producing no more
like pharaoh, lost his first kin
hardened hearts, learned repentance
the quest
before being granted each of the ten commandments
still in the wilderness
figuring out how the rule of law applies to this.instance
"Well, it says right here..."
"Yes, but how does that apply to this?"
a sword will not fix the relationship
milk and honey is returned when a coordinated String
of statements using ifs and references, runs
according to the past
valid parameters, passed
no crocodile tears, it hurts
eat or get eat, leaves us all scrred
troubled, hearing imprred
can't say my rs
still wuning, humming, dancing
to my own beat, 'cause
I'm in love with it
a diamond in the rough, raw, and dumb with it
built castles in the sand
manufactured an island
private class
no global calling
a place to rollback, relax
implement some stacks
aristocratic, a project pre-packaging classes
some methods for their choosing
efficiency isn't leaving us more time for snoozing
we are "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"
waiting to be called but classless
left alone in grief and sadness
talking to mirages
got lost in the madness
gloriAwaitS
Princess!
They said someone killed the princess.
Our Lady Di, Beautiful
Hollywood actress, Marilyn
Rocked that dress, Airborne
Amelia, you inspired us
Now, we're crashing down
Sally, Ride with us
We need to jet-i-son-out, Light Speed
Stacey, Abraham said unequivocally you were a need
Madam President, Lincoln Freed
It's our time to lead, women of the world
Every creed, stand with us
Let them hear us rip at the seams
We are Mankiller Active
We are Lady Bird Blossoms and Beeton Manners
We are Sweet Sixteens and Quinceañeras
We are found at every level
Royal Family
We are Queens
We decide what we do in the kitchen
Creole, New Orleans
Daughters of the Renaissance
Try and tell us what Freedom means
Cord cut - No Lady, No Luck
They said someone killed the princess
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
We will not fall in toe
Malala Yousafzai, Paula-Mae
Be it Weekes, Tabago we go far
Island bound
Trini'a father and mother a nation
We're making all sorts of sounds
We need salvation, princess!
They said someone killed the princess,
Silenced
No longer awaiting the crown.
Legacies:
Winning Time
First Divorce
Two Year Old
Ex was a Cop, but stole your best friend.
This was not the end.
Terrorized your new family
Pulled over, harassed at every stop
Grocery shopping was more like a weekly interrogation ending with a treat,
"For being so quiet and staying so sweet.
Apples and oranges are OK.
No papayas from now on.
He'll get his in good time.
Now, let's just move on."
And he did, didn't he.
Flipped that car, high speeds.
Like I am sure falling in love with that kind of man must be.
It wasn't just him though
I don't remember where y'all had to go,
but it was just Kyle and me in that single-wide mobile-home.
What were we doing that day?
Before they showed up banging on every door and window. Walls, Tin, felt it,
cave in; maybe a part of me is still there.
Sirens on, lights flashing. Who were these men, in uniform, making demands, in aggressive stance.
We had been playing on the floor with Hot Wheels and Tonka trucks, that's right, that's how it had began. In his room, when we first heard them coming up. I peeked out, it was only us and one other house at the end of this drive and as we saw them circle our home we ran under my bed to hide.
The only sanctuary I could think of.
As we hid in the clear, I was wondering why on earth the police were there, my little brother, crying, asked me why his dad was causing us so much fear. I was speechless. I still am. I am sorry for all that has happened. I am sorry our fight for justice never really began.
Everything really did just happen so fast. It was night, in gown, and before too long it was your ass calling the cops on my dad; and now those men were in my room while I sat at the edge of the bed trembling, "again, I tried my best to answer your questions, I don't know what happened, I was sleeping before you barged in. Their shit, is between them!"
But as I was soon to discover, my words would never mean anything to them.
flashForward - 16 - my roommate convinced me to report my rape; 36 in 7 months, still waiting on that court date.
In the land of the free and the home of the brave we speak our truths; and I've heard about those rape kits stacking up. Where’s the crime if there’s no punishment.
People left to face their abusers every day; it gets fucking rough;
and you know what, being deaf wouldn't even be a valid excuse
we all know what Helen Keller was able to do.
It almost feels like you're ignoring us.
And I worry based on my life experience.
What other families do you have in the Hot Seat that’s taking time away from being able to tackle these repeats; threepeats.
I worry that you can't see how your actions still have an effect on me.
Deliver me to the promised land. Where our liberty, and justice, is guaranteed.
Where I can be at peace.
A place where pursuits of happiness are dreams coming true and not a green screen tackling fake news. Killing TIME news stories cost you, Strange Fruit; you got us learning how to make boots. We strapped up and it's the winner’s news.
Protect & Serve
To maintain public order and provide ongoing safety we need to rethink what it means to prevent criminal activities; we need to reevaluate the efforts we put into detecting and investigating certain criminal activities over other criminal activities, because the ways in which you're apprehending us is a real threat.
regarding enforcement of the law or "having a zero tolerance on crime."
I implore you, use compassion and responsiveness; our needs are going unmet, our human rights ignored.
These expectations were preset, that "governments are instituted among men" to secure the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
The reluctance we are seeing now to evolve was not unexpected, he continued with,
"mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Or, It's the devil we know
and it makes us uncomfortable dealing with the pressure of re-imagining what law enforcement could look like, because it is not yet insufferable for White America.
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" go undefined yet are the sacred values we still hold as individuals that inspired our forefathers to cross an ocean, defy their king, and institute a government to secure against all else.
if you are here to protect us
if you are here to serve us
prevention begins at home:
feed us, house us, educate us
provide us work, healthcare, retirement
detecting and investigating activities are time consuming and costly; prioritize based on potential long-term gains in the securing of the future generations' lives, liberties, and pursuits.
Enforcement of the law should be an act of compassion and justice.
Your responsiveness to our needs is necessary to preserve peace, maintain public order, and ensure safety for all.
Pledge, Allegiance
Gay, Fag, Queer
Happy, Lit, Awe'd
I wrote this language
defined each syllable
denoting each facsimile
Given credit, where credit's due
What's the cost of a life to you?
Stayed hidden, just long enough
but never long enough
but never soon enough
Out of the closet
Colorful, layered, mix-match matching
studded, accessorized
Claire didn't haggle, gave you the bottom price
looking like a hundred dimes
Slashing half off half price
Meier & Frank, those were the times
Walking out like the last season
underpriced, overlooked, disregarded
Just like me, so I flaunted it
Identified with each garment you valued less
because you lost your interest
Never good enough
but Always Good Enough
High Quality, Durable, Built to Last
LeviStrong, Gold Digging, at the BIT, mining
because I'm on my own
Followed the Oregon Trail, brought me,
A Pan,
No free loading, road in, burning bridges
I never intended to mend
It's their Red Sea to cross, and
I'm still here, pray'n for 'em
Gay, Fag, or Queer
I'm happy, I'm lit, I'm at the wheel
steering it
Learned how to "ghost ride my whip"
sometimes we don't have the cash
Still gotta to fill that tank
on empty longer than I realized it
Running on fumes, forgot to gauge the trip
Faith - an inevitable part of this relationship
a Trustfall, into the Abyss
"1,2,3,4 I won't take no anymore
5,6,7,8 I want you to be my mate
1,2,3,4 You're the one that I adore
5,6,7,8 Don't run from me because this is fate."
Gay, Fag, Queer
there are Stranger Things than this
In the darkness,
Where the Wild Things Are
You'll find your best friend,
a bond so strong, not periodic
but, like discovering a new element
Self-respect, can't diminish it
the space I take up,
I devoured you
and just took a shit
smelt like roses, Teen Spirit.
Buckle-up, it's time we discuss
the reasons I hurt like this
You've denied us what once had been promised
The Pursuits of Our Happiness
1,2,3,4 We won't take No anymore
This Nation, Under God, Indivisible
You're the one that I adore
Don't run from me, because this is fate
Gay or Straight, it's Liberty and Justice for All
5,6,'78
Antifa
my brothers and sisters
my brothers and sisters, breathe
you are needed here with us
please breathe my dearest, breathe
my brothers and sisters, please
find a way to put your heart at ease
breathe, take in all that you need
I see you united, if only against the nazi,
on which we can agree
my brothers and sisters
I know that you're in need
I know you're stuck staring at their greed
I know peace did not come when it was declared
all men were freed
my brothers and sisters I plead, breathe
the moment calls for calmer minds
prevailing will require critical thought
not inaction, not reaction
action in step with each moving part
I wonder at your ability to conspire
now conspirare, breathe together
a moment to calm your minds
consider your futures, build a lifeline
for future generations to be apart of
our tempers are high, we've blown our top
will it cost us this moment
or determine our cell block?
be smart, we need leaders with strategy
and heart
destruction and chaos leaves us more broken
and torn apart
Unite us,
I implore you to use art
my brothers and sisters
together we can win
with peaceful resistance
our nation can mend
what's been broken from the start
GrownGrumps
Grief
The silent but deadly
Killer of all joy
Cutter of flowers
Uprooted from their warm beds
Grief
Stricken by the chill
Disturbed, shocked to the root
Broken concrete and brown dirt
Grief
Grief
Trumpeting with each new hour
Upon each new spring
Flocking together
Our miserly company
Unable to find solace
Grief
Indebted, but unable to pay back.
A role you created
Bringing meaning to life
Like God, but not god, but My God
Grief
From your womb, from your seed
Grief
Only possible because of you
Grief
Now eliminated
Now emancipated
Now ending
Now trying to begin
Now failing
Now trying to begin, again
Now failing, again
Grief
Grief
We made plans yesterday
Grief
My best man yesterday
Grief
A blow to the head, heart, and groin
Yesterday, Fucking Grief
My baby fucking grief
My body fucking grief
My mind - fucking grief
This world - fucking grief
Hamas attacked Israel last week
Hungry, angry, and uprooted
Israel was created by the Brits
Supporting the Zionist movement
Efforts to provide sanctuary for Jews
those nazi Basterds
1923 Palestine was the chosen land
Having once been conquered by David
The One True King,
Zazu, a tenderly woven nest
A basket to keep all his eggs in
A fertile land, buzzing with bees
Rich with milk and honey
Plenty for the many habibi
Plenty for aini, albi, haya
Plenty for the new
Walled off
An early form of gentrification
Left the land of Palestine a new hue
Revolting Arabs
Revolting Arabs
Revolting Afghans
Cold War Heros
Like Vietnam Vets
Homeless and starving
because of some Washington brats.
Revolting Iranians
ISIS
IS what it IS
An offshoot of Mohammad's Dynasty
The Saudis lay claim to
Allah yahmina
God protect us
We are all your children
Nahn jamiean 'atfaluk
We babble and babble to no prevail
We rabble in the rubble of a broken HIStory
Lacking sovereignty, lacking security
Lacking silver linings, werewolves at Mineh
Ethereal beings stubbornly unswayed
Growing more righteous with each passing day
Growing our grieving, greatening our sorrow,
A hundred years lost in the desert, whilst raining
missiles from another land.
Where
Where has our logic gone
Where does our good sense lie
Where do we begin to notice
No one wins when it's an eye for an eye
Where do we go from here
So many have been lost
Our hearts broken open, hemorrhaging
Paying the ultimate cost
Borders undefined, boundaries crisscrossed
Within, inherent lies
Where is the truth we seek
Clouded in corrupted minds
Where do we come together
Where are the silver lines
A yellow brick road to follow
No wizards, but dandy Lions
Where has our good god gone
Where do our shepherds hide
Where have we preserved our peace
For it to be multiplied
Where are the rising stock/stalk
Lost, among the flock
Where are the heaven sent
Where do the scriptures rest
Describing the archetype
Outlining our next steps
Where is our reason to hope, in these darkest of times
in the darkness
perhaps it is inevitable
that as we are both opposite particles
we must annihilate each other
to some degree
before we succumb to balance in our universe
ever expanding, at different rates
our thoughts produced are not the same
and the friction drawing us
in mass will only ever end poorly
where no one can win
a cold void vacuum of space
desolate of life
empty and finite
unable to continue our exploring
unanswered questions to our origins
now & forever lost to time
a reminder
that this too was of our making
a construct winding
with tensions rising
the tick and tocking
having no ear to land upon
be it deaf or that of hard hearing
happening in waves
a sound still reaching out
radio signals sent, with hopes left
never knowing if they were found
thinking of us
our fragility
life being but a happenstance
is quite frightening
precious moments
not wasted or treated carelessly
but designed with purpose
cared for tenderly
hidden figures
with which light will not interact
clouding around us
interfering in ways
we are still trying to predict
be it a slim disk
right through the center of us
there is some certainty
of its existential existence
its nudging of us
toward our continuance
in the darkness
where it is the hardest to see
hope finds a way
for you to feel its presence
gifts made abundant
in friendly faces
in rhythms and rhymes
the predictability of math
scales and timelines
these structures astound
bringing us closer
to what we might call God
but also,
to what we might find in each other
having been made
from the same stardust
particles found throughout the universe
carefully woven together
here for us
I would like to think we are capable of more than what we have yet accomplished. I would like to think that there is more life for us all to live and experience and for which to be present. In the darkest of times I had always been under the illusion the goodness of people would shine through as perhaps the light of annihilating dark matter particles from millions of years ago do. I am no longer under such an illusion, but I believe in all of us there is good and that as long as we continue to pursue the light within we will find each other again, in this darkness; that we will see our humanity is greater than the color of our skin, or our place of origin. That when given the right tools for the right jobs we, together, can accomplish anything.
We are all responsible.
Note from the Author.
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