This is for those corporeal blooded beasts
Carrying their consciousness
Like a badge
A scar
A curse
A revelation
Blinded
Sensorially
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
Month: May 2014
Don’t Wear Your Damage As Blame
Don’t wear your damage
As blame
But as a life lived
Too close to the sun
Exhibit your pain like art
Let no two joys be the same
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
The Sum
Things I was right about
Few
Things I wrong about about
Some
How much in the end does it matter?
To that question I am numb
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
Everyone Thinks
Everyone thinks
The other side stinks
That they feel entitled
To that not earned
Like Nero
We fiddle
Don’t move to the middle
Whilst we burn
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
State of the Internet 2014
Selfies flowing constantly
Into the internet stream
People reacting violently
To opinions they have seen
Upworthy nudging inspiringly
With carefully crafted memes
Cat pics generate spontaneously
That fill all the space in between
Set your phone down quietly
Before you want to scream
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
Be Human
Smile
Lose ground
Until
The end
Feel joy
It goes around
Without us
My friend
Be human
Do not fear
Feel love
Do not pretend
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
Need Is The Driver
For the world to be off the rails
It would have to have had them
Need is the driver
There is no Lego playset
Just selection
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
The Kindness Engine
Kindness is the creation of clarity
Life is never empty of pain
Value empathy not insularity
The path to balance writ plain
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
She Who Is The Speaker Of Her Dreams
Dreams can die together
They are viral
Every intertwined
Dreams can grow forever
They are vital
Slow to unwind
She who is the speaker of her dreams
Should not be scorned
Embolden this world do not lessen
You have been warned
The dreams which you dismiss
The dreams which the crowd denies
Is that which in perpetuity is lost
And all that loss implies
Gene G. McLaughlin 2014
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