Bet on work and failure
As a path to growth
Bet it’s a bet
That won’t appeal to most
Own your sins
Grow from them
Acknowledge your failings
As much as wins
Become a better man
In the public eye
Be known as one
The day you die.
Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
The spark
A Dose
Of Art
As love
Tears you
Apart
Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
Beware they that ask
For your love and rage at the same time
Love is one part of your story
Rage is one part of your story
They are roads to different destinations
That you will take at different times
They that ask you to combine them
Do so for their own means
They wish to become the story you tell
To simplify you
They that ask this do not mean you well
They have no wishes for you at all
They dream a dream for them
Cherish your love
Safeguard your rage
They are yours and yours alone
Gene G. McLaughlin 2020
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