Month: November 2022

  • How to Tell Someone to Change Without Telling Them How and Being Surprised at the Lack of Change:

    Okay then what do we do? What is the first step to take? That’s the question I asked you. For the progress you want me to make. You said we have to try, Trial and error to figure it out, But you don’t understand that I Can’t try without knowing what about. What’s the first

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  • Buried in Trenches

    I remember a fact, signed in a pact, In which all the world said “Time to pack and don’t come back Until they are all dead.” A story of war, one we’ve heard before, Where we believed we were right. But the vitality in the reality, Saw nothing more than a bloody night. For what

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  • The Best We Could Do

     Inspired by the novel “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui We stand alone, Our hearts cold.  Brought together To be torn apart. Absent of normalcy Our family built on the blood Of the lives around us Starving and poor Under the weight of communism. There is no freedom Where there is no hope

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  • Deadlines

     the sun aflame hung high above a subtle blaze grazing my surface a peaceful moment overwhelmed squinting in the presence of her bliss lost in the panic of life’s demands I long for a chance of tranquility owned and defined by the deadlines I hope that peace can be with me time is short so

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  • Albert

        Nothing is better than catching someone in the act of a dark secret. My neighbor, Albert, certainly had one, but so did I.      It was a bleak day in December, where the air was crisp and the world was quiet in the New York mountains. I dragged my tools up a hill, crunching

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