Joshua Braff

I see a pattern, a lantern

In your wing as you pass

Maroon splattered green

 

Advanced brain, no gain

You hold the grace and poise

No thanks traffic, loose pants elastic

 

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What style in your senses

Prioritized graces

It’s not just your flight I’d try

It’s your gift and your sight

Your instinctive light

A bit of soul makes us cry

 

Perched there, a Tuesday

The highest spot around

The sky is dotted, clouds allotted

 

Let me not defend along

These lines to mend

The teachings of so many steered wrong

 

Your vision, a symbol

Majestic and nimble

A living dance for us all

 

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Your distance

Is anew today

Your intention fueled by fear

We use each other grandly my love

But I have another gear

 

I found this book on caring

For humans you don’t even have to know

It says no one wants to suffer

Even your enemies are in this row

 

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Better sing it out

Instead of holding in

A breath inside the secret here

Too late now to forgive the child

The one alive in you

Serenity for the win

 

I love you and I hate you babe

So I didn’t sleep all that well

I long to love you in the way that we allow

Embraced in the moment from within

 

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Life’s a game she said

But I prefer a river

The flow reads forward

Less contest smooth ocean glass sliver

Come away with me now

 

Love can tear

We heal through the sludge of time

Palms slip and then tumble

Catharsis from a rhyme

Do I even exist if I heal this pain

 

Maybe just maybe, it’s time

To Evolve

 

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Hands clean off my neck

I’m alive to the season

Meaning the now, the day,

A time and a reason

If I’m to find this thing

They say’s within my soul

Maybe just maybe

It’s time to evolve 

 

Lights on high again

In this hopeful search for self

Mindful jaunt to travel

A window to my health

Perhaps for now

I’ll just wedge it up high

Crossroads for now,

Gonna choose to fly

 

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Watching from the hole I’m forced

Ignorance abounds

The air has turned to nasty

And it’s gumming up my frown

 

If shattering our compass

Is the strategy du jour

Then I’m hoping for an elixir

Creating my own lure

 

Your hatred is so sexy

When you prove your worth so clear

A whitey ‘Mericana imbued with all that fear

Point your finger stiffly

At the face you cannot like

Your all too thin beauty

Proving all too uptight

 

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So like the Hokey Pokey

A dance I know you shout

Put your right hand in and shake it all about

All your fear will just pour out

 

I see you on the TV

And you’re stoking up some hell

A man walked past your lawn jockey

A villain you can tell

 

Entitlement like yours

Leaves baby as a mark

A truth I know and you’ll learn soon

Your bite is just a bark

 

Organic relaxation

For the simplicist of hicks

Go deep to find your sexy, Karen

Not sure how many licks

 

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Oh the lessons in his scolding

The shame in his ride up

Evil eye, the spittle,

a fist-bump for the chump

 

Cubicle nation

Florescent in the skin

Your boss’s trigger finger

Gonna blame you for his sins

 

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Freedom has a cost

Play the dollar slots at least

Top Man needs you fired

His foul and soiled sheets

 

In your snark

I abide you

Grow smaller in your glow

Today is so much like you

A steeper task to hoe

 

London fog a callin’

Thick without a clue

The lions end up missing

Bit the keeper man in two

 

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He chips away a sculpture

A chunk beneath you knee

You cannot move forward

Hear the snicker, so much glee

He speaks of so much riches

Calls you buddy cuz he’s hip

Small sacrifice investment

Here take another sip

 

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I see you running like a bat out of hell

Good Humor Man and his truck

A girl in want of a cool summer taste

I hope this guy has enough

 

Then you’re growing

And I see you slow down

That selfish shrapnel too deep

You take it with you and the Winters are cruel

And now there’s nothing to reap

 

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Tell me child

Is it warm where you are

And I’ll know peace rests your eyes

 

If only we could’ve skirted the dark

A better life could arise

 

New Jersey highway

And you’re driving too fast

The cold in view in your breath

 

You laugh cuz all of this

Could end in a flash

They’d say we knew we’d not last

 

When you left

I couldn’t laugh for awhile

It seemed to go down with you

But if you’re listening

I want you to know

The joy of you comes through

The joy of you always

Lonesome Moon

I aimed to mend

But time and you stayed cold

Threads sheet bare, of course unfair

So cut from the mold

 

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If I die before July

You have to come by

Say well, merry well

Have a nice ride

Have a nice ride

 

Swing shift

Can of corn

Light me aglow

Your eyes for him

You knew I’d see

It had to be a show

 

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I miss the roll-about

We had that night

Kills me from top below

A Meteorite

 

If I die before July

You have to come by

Say well, merry well

Have a nice ride

 

Heart slashed

Reflex, insinuate

Burned down

Love lost, you balked

Called scared, no sound

 

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Soap Box Tower

From this here flame

I think it’s been an hour

So let’s do it again

 

Come hither sorrow

As long as your real

The cost is steep regardless

No matter which pill

 

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The one goes IN, is meant for Love

The one goes OUT the Sea

 

His life got dirty

When his fear turned to spite

Put lots of lives in danger

To prove he was right

 

What the F is happening

If we ain’t got a spine

It’s time to address ugly

Behind that line

 

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The one goes IN, is meant for Love

The one goes OUT the Sea

The one goes IN, is meant for Love

The one goes OUT for ME

 

Is it just a period

Where apathy rules

White elephant on your conscience

No air for fools 

 

How about we go halfway

And agree on the sun

An all so simple grateful

We can all lean on

 

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