Every post
Is a person
Every tweet
Is typed by hand
Before you turn toxic
Think of the pixels
Not as of digital
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Tag: Poem
Reclamation
After you died
In my dreams
I only saw you
Diminished and fading
At the end
Now I see you
Young
Tan
Standing
In the sun
Smiling
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Darkness Is Not Blindness
Darkness is not blindness
Adjustment is slow
Things around you
Take shape
Patience the only tool
Until the world has form again
If There Is No Middle Ground
If there is no middle ground
Then the way is lost
It is hard to see when beaten down
Through the smoke
Know middle ground is there
In the haze
Right behind you
Just obscured
We can speak in absolutes
Hold volatile ideas near and dear
Speak of revolution
Ignoring the tears
We don’t know ourselves
Through the swirl
We cannot see ourselves
With it engulfing us
Sometimes it is better
To move slowly
Through the fog
Feeling that which is around us
Which we cannot see
Waiting until the fog dissipates
Instead of burning it off
Because that which we burn
We sometimes value most
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Homeless Words
Sometimes
Words together
Sound good
To the ear
Devoid of meaning
And homeless
In a notebook
They hum
Waiting for your pen
To guide them home
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
We Never Think It is Us
We never think it is us
Who will struggle to rise
Overestimation
Our shared sin
Those of us who know
Extend our hands
To the fallen
As if
They were
Us
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Resilience Is a Skill
Bad rolls down hill
An unseemly fact
Change is a force of will
All throughout our acts
Resilience is a skill
The thoughts we don’t enact
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Just Bend
Evidence
Isn’t the Enemy
Failure
Isn’t the End
Reaction to
The game is
Friend
The goal is
Not to break
Just bend
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Within
Sometimes
I think ahead
Or dwell
In the past
Only in the now
Can I hear
The quiet hum
The nameless song
The beloved echo
Within
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
Only Slow Recognitions
You’re self contained
Nothing else is missing
Any loss or pain
Don’t take to dismissing
The are no gains
Only slow recognitions
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013
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