Garden

Flowers of purple, darkened blue and pink
A plethora of bright red tomatoes
Blooms that kept growing and refused to sink
And a range of scents to delight the nose

Plants that were born from my home continent
Columns of corn reaching up tall and straight
Pumpkins that spread without pause or relent
Bees present with the goal to pollinate

Mint growing with intent unstoppable
Countless strawberries that taste the sweetest
Raspberries, blueberries by the handful
All arranged to make it look the neatest

This garden I've created with my hand
It will endure. For I know well it can

 Completed: 14th March 2025

Hide your beliefs

Take you religious beliefs and go home
We don't want them anywhere around here
Don't tell us about the rights you hold dear
You should just remain silent and unknown
Don't whinge,. After all this path was your choice
To spread a message of love corrupted
But in truth the order you've disrupted
So keep it private along with your voice
To influence children's minds you've no right
Especially your practices sexual
You should be ashamed: You're the biggest fool
Hurry up. Disappear into the night

So would you please hide your reglious ways
You're obscuring the freedoms of the gays


15th August 2019

Rope Ladder

You want someone to love? I don't think so
Wanting some touch doesn't mean you'll succeed
Accept you'll be alone: That's what you need
For this quest will fail from the word go

You want to be part of a unique bond?
Sorry that's reserved for the lucky few
Everyone deserves some love just not you
It's a fate you can't escape or respond

You've got some love that's overdue to bloom?
The hell you do: You're just messed in the head
We don't want you here. You fill us with dread
You should be shamed for leaving your bedroom

Unless of course you happen to be gay
In which case I'll back your quest all the way


12th August 2019

Social Justice Warrior

When the war is over what will you do?
When there are no more targets left to hide?
Will your thirst for a fight be satisfied?
Will you accept your soldiers leaving you?
Will you come up with a victory plan?
Will you stop thinking who can take the blame?
Will you be relieved that you can’t complain?
Will you live a life devoid of a clan?
Will you have the means for beating boredom?
Will you have a scheme for being happy?
Will you go forge a new identity?
Will you refrain from making a problem?

Of course not: The anger will never cease
For what’s a warrior in times of peace?


26 May 2019

Human

I’ve been useless, a monster, a crim too

But not today: I won’t be some sad wreck

For the first time I grasp some self-respect

I know that this is something I can do

Driven by a strength that came from nowhere

I will shatter the walls that surround me

I’ll be the storm that makes the demons flee

I will no longer cave into despair

I will embrace myself because I can

I will rise above years of depression

I will move far away from regression

I’ll stand up and declare I’m worth a damn

But wait: You heard? No one likes straight white men

In that case, what was the fucking point then?


26th May 2019

How to win an argument

Want to know how to win an argument?
Just convince the other guy of your view
Oh and be ready to take on facts new
Forget attacking: It won't make a dent

Listen: Don't interrupt the other guy
You need to follow standards much higher
Don't mislead. Scrap that winning desire
You're there to understand. Not to reply

You must invite your foe onto your side
And you must forgive their past transgression
Ditch humiliation and aggression
For in the end you've got nothing to hide

So then: Now that these truths have come to light
I ask you: Do you still want to be right?


11th December 2018

Emi

Take my hand- we will go walk this city 
Discussing the fine art of crafting words 
Constructing rhyming schemes working in thirds 
All melded together in honesty 
 Merging snarky humour with metaphor 
Breaking in structure with a force restless 
Two torrents with many things to express 
A pair of weavers of words by the score 
Viewing the world with a curious eye 
Walking down a route neither one was prepared 
However there’s no reason to be scared 
Leading each other to summits so high 
The enclosing walls; time to move beyond 
To paths forged out of a creative bond 


Completed: 11th November 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion (Redux)

The power to exclude: The sweetest thing

An intoxication few can refuse

It divides the lies from which truth to use

Decides who will lose and who’ll be winning

The power to exclude: It writes the rules

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

It welcomes the down-trodden with arms wide 

Promotes inclusion just not with the fools

The power to exclude: Puts me in charge 

Decides who will speak and who to ignore

Saves me from the scum. Make me something more

Makes me drown out anyone, small or large


The power to exclude. You know it’s true

And if you held it you’d do the same too



11th October 2018

The Fine Art of Exclusion

I will tell you how things work in this life

What needs to be said. What we need to do

I’m for inclusiveness when it’s not with you

And I bet this knowledge cuts like a knife

The crowd I lead is the one that’s correct

Heaven help you if you’re on the wrong side

I’ll welcome the down-trodden with arms wide

Disagree with me, if once, and you’re wrecked

I have time for them but you? I ignore

I don't care about what's holding you back

Your weakness is showing so I attack

You just keep on being you. Close the door

This is my truth and this is what I do

And admit it: you would do the same too

8th October 2018

Untitled (II)

See the one face you have seen every day

Run errands because they won’t leave the house

Hear many stories ‘bout their ex, the louse

Have fights that end with them getting their way

Lending money, no return when it’s due

Being powerless when they throw a fit

Do things through being made to feel like shit

Demands to know where you go, what you do

Have friends concerned for you left on the shelves

Be forbid from seeing your family

Be told, yet again, that “You complete me”

Only staying so they don't hurt themselves

Face a truth too ingrained to break this curse

The truth that loneliness is so much worse

8th October 2018

Unhappily Ever After

Stuck in single life. A wretched prison

My latest attempt to run has too blown

But I’m sick of wondering what I’m missing

It’s time to embrace what I’ve always known

So no more will I engage in the chase

No more will I miss out on something grand

No more will I try so hard to save face

No more will I hope for a lucky hand

No more being seen as some kind of threat

No more experiences to be shared

No more need for human touch left unmet

No more declarations that I’m not scared

Thus I embrace the single life: Rejoice

After all, it’s not like I have a choice

Coercion

I could help you with your dud social skills

But I‘d rather laugh at your lack of sex

I could understand your feelings complex

But the frail make for such easy kills

I could understand all your social needs

But I’d rather shame you for being you

I could ask for cooperation true

But I’d just demand it. See where that leads

I could find your help to be effective

But I'd rather embrace suspicion strong

I could tell you how what you did was wrong

But I’d rather you remain defective

It’s coercion by ridicule of course

So much better than coercion by force

12th August 2018

Critical Thinking

I’m here to tell you of thinking critical

I can tell ignorance won’t work for you

Tear down the walls of fiction for what’s true

Open your mind, see analytical

It’s time to do away with tradition

Charlatans and frauds are to be exposed

Ask yourself what isn’t being disclosed

And listen to the voice of suspicion

Reason and logic: Your friends in attack

Let the words of proof and clarity grow

Do not heed the words of the status quo

After all, they’re only holding you back

So stand up: Challenge everything you see

Just as long as it doesn’t include me

12th August 2018