Life in a Jar
I’d like to find a special jar
To put aside some life,
A jar that keeps both face and form,
And stints the scourge of change.
I’d put therein, a rusted leaf,
Or summer’s one perhaps,
To always have the seasons at
The twisting of a wrist.
I’d put therein, my true love’s kiss,
To always know its taste.
And next to that a snapshot of
The world within her eyes.
I’d also save, encased therein,
First cries out to the world;
Of lives conceived through gifted love,
And feeling newly born.
I’d store away the vistas of
Grand aspects, earthly borne,
And let them burn through fired glass
From every lay of land.
Then I would not be far from life,
From where I cannot see.
No, I prefer to keep it fresh
For morning’s light, through glass.
It’s change that writes the script of life
And fleshes out the page.
While time is just a numbered pause
Without a story told.
Stubborn, submerged
Stubborn ~ emerged
Heroin, China white, or just smack, took him
into lost dreams and an altering of gritty reality
Chasing the dragon, didn’t seem enough
to balm a wounded psyche
Losing to lust demons
An iconic face of his late father
A boy destined to see an assassination
Shot at the hands,
of Sirhan Sirhan
Grief stricken is the neon nod, duji
the catalyst that would take his brother
Another reckless misfortune of
the scourge of addiction
Up until a river's cleansing
Washed away are the sins
Recovery that teaches humility
Opening his heart toward God
Liberating his birthright charm
and political pedigree to full shiny view
Somewhere down the crazy river
calm waters bring back a boy
we the people once new
March 12, 2022
The glass ball slips from my grasp
Broken shards scrape the surface
I let the ground taste my tears
The droplets leave behind unmarked graves
Pandemic raging around our world
Covid-19, Delta and Omicron
Deny it not too many interred
Don't drop the ball we will fight on.
True we have rights but remember this
We're fighting unseen merciless foe
Forget about freedoms that's not remiss
Sickness, death, and long-Covid woe.
Yes indeed lies have been spun
Hospitals full the enemy's won
Vaccinate now get it done!
Masks are cool fake news shun.
(COVID-19)
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My shoulders are alive with dandruff
Been blessed with it since I was a pup
Why me I shout
This frustration I spout
Maybe shove dandruff shampoo up my butt
The Scourge
Written: by Miracle Man
4/5/2020
An invisible scourge
has caused life to take a new direction.
Our days have become a time of uncertainty,
and Social Distancing has brought sadness and fear to many.
As the world seeks to change the game,
the Grim Reaper sits astride a horse called COVID-19
but Jesus was, and is, our game changer.
Bible Verses About Healing The Nation
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Timothy 3
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
It started when he coughed.
Then we made jokes and laughed,
Hoping the curse we are is vindicated.
But the malady on lungs it feasted.
In its toxic smolder we chocked.
Rich and poor our doors we locked
In desperate timid fear
Of its heinous air scare
Disguising as fever it tripped
Through air as lungs it ripped
Taking many more caged
Victims, as its attempts surged
Menacing the old aged and kill
Both feeble and strong in thrill
Of an unleashed pandemic
With the thirst of an atomic.
Just breathe in and out
God will win, there is no doubt.
My shoulders are alive with dandruff
Been blessed with it since I was a pup
Why me I shout
This frustration I spout
Maybe shove dandruff shampoo up my butt
© Jack Ellison 2015
A scourge
Of mankind.
Hate
A person
Before we talk and walk
That is no way Right.
It is every way Wrong.
want a special
kind
Of prejudice.
wish to pre-judge
Everyone
beautiful
Lovely
gorgeous
Redeemed
Forgiven
And
love them
feel them
like them
Before speak to them
Or hear them speak.
Before know them personally
who they are.
from where
what color
what cast
what creed
My special own
Prejudice.
as you stand still, i move within and throughout you, slipping into the spaces you have yet to discover about yourself.
i cling to the hollowed spaces, sinking my teeth into the soft, immature lining of your personality, and i fill those secret parts of you with a debilitating venom.
you still have yet to realize my presence as you give and gather and build a reality for yourself, as i am burrowing deep inside of your very core.
my intent is to destroy you from the inside-out; to devour your bowels and completely absorb you into myself.
and you make it so easy.
you deny my existence, no matter how many experts describe me for you.
you mock my abilities with your actions and feed me with your thoughts and secret motives.
i grow inside of you, making you sick.
i am soul-cancer.
and the only way to battle me is through humility,
but you're refusing treatment,
guaranteeing i will be your undoing.
Tired of the sufferation
Real menace of earths apparition
Dont judge me with my appearance
We are the great ones
No time to mingle with pagans
No religion
I believe in no legion
Tread the right road even if in poverty
Try hold on in this world of calamity
Even though we work so hard
And still get no pay
Maintain Godly way
Try kill the pain
They think i am not intelligent
But am here to show you what is evident
They better know am no a weak end
And when I touch the road; God defend
Be real and dont pretend
Love is a thing
That makes people cling
War is not a nice thing
War is a country of will
There is no sympathy
If you cant give up your everything
You have already lost...
Any fool can know
The point is to understand
Not to stand under...
#peace
God,these companies are a scourge!
Please stop ringing me
is all I urge.
Ringing me every day,
why don't you
just go away.
I don't want to take
your call,
I might not
answer it at all.
So please don't ring me anymore,
like I've told you,
loads before.
If you ring me
one more time,
I'll have no choice
but to block my line.
Then maybe I can get some sleep,
free from that annoying
constant beep.
How the hell
do you sleep at night?
Hounding people
just isn't right.
.
chlorophyll cancer
constricting aquatic breathe
suffocating life
.