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The tree outside the window pane
Stands strong and firm, sound and sane
I often wonder if it may dread
Upcoming storms and others dead
Does it ponder an apocalypse
Or cringes at a chain saw's lisp
Will it stand it's ground in wind and rain
Or bend and bow to take the strain
When the earth is dry does it gird its waist
Or will it weep and thirst for waters taste
When buildings fall to time's prevail
Does death its boughs rack and rail

And while I think about this tree
I wonder if it thinks of me.

-Me
2002 (in Dr. Andrews boring as hell Speech class)

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I can not get close enough to you

Looks seem to go right through

Even though nothing is as it seems

I still love you with my dreams

Hope shines through every expression

Lust is destroyed with thoughtful compassion

And it fill this heart with different coloured creams

I still love you in my dreams

An angel camps in a jungle fire's light

the dark grabs her with all it's might

And even though you cant hear my screams

You'll still see me in your dreams.

Aaron's Psalm

Oh Lord, please bless this simple effort to stand on solid ground.
Please use this feeble mind to keep the sanity I've found.
I ask your careful blessing upon this heart of mine.
Keep my brain from cutting our communication line.

-Me

Chemistry

It happens when you walk into a room
and a smile lights up our faces.
Turned on by your touch
Even when it's different people in different places.
This amazing catalyst turns perception into emotion.
The solution, an alternative person
A novelty for a notion.
These words you speak send two different identities careening,
With one heart unwilling
The other
feigning.
Noticed by all yet understood by only three.
It takes two to tangle and only one for chemistry.

-Author Brown

I dream

I dream dreams of nights African
with whispers from old souls that beckon me
"Arise", they say, "from this lifelong nightmare, this controlled dream that awakes with you, walks with you, speaks to you. Take off that body cast you wear to protect yourself from your destiny. Look into the mirror of the past and lavish in your brown skin. Swim in the ocean of words that crash upon your full lips. Laugh at the broadness of your shoulders that hold the weight of intelligence that rest upon them"

I dream dreams of still waters,
Of eyes that shine like moons on the blackest dark
Arms that hold my strength and nurture my weakness
Soul that touches me and calms my fears while finding happiness
in living Blackness.

-Author Brown