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Sometimes I wonder how other people

Can’t put up with life

So they drink and do drugs

But then I remember that my gf broke up with me

And I gained 30 pounds

Because I could not stop eating sweets

As balm for my aching soul

The sweetness in my mouth

The crunch of the chocolate nuts

It was happiness

Or at least a distraction

From the sadness that I could not face

It’s no wonder that people drink

It’s no wonder that people do drugs

Because we’ve been taught that consumption

Is the cure to what ails us

So we buy and consume

Until we’ve lost what made us healthy

#poetry #original poem #writing #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #poem #drugs #coping with life

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Tailored Fantasy

I was just a fantasy you had

A fancy that took you

Built up to be what you wished for

I fit you into the fantasy of my wishes

Where I make a woman president

And we fix the country

I thought you were perfect

Because you are already popular

And you could win

You thought I was perfect

Because I knew more than you hoped

But you could show me all the ropes

And it would be special that way

I don’t think our fantasies are wrong

I just think they are a starting place

For what will actually come

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I Tried because You Cried

It’s funny that I tried

But you cried out

And I tried to answer

Parallel lives

Not crossing under circumstances

Normal to life

But I heard these songs

And thought

‘That’s where I belong’

If I didn’t try to respond

It would make it impossible

So I tried

In another world line

We met and married

You and I had children

Three at least

You ran for senator

And then six years later

You became president

You went two terms

Reformed healthcare

Reformed taxes

Reformed housing

Reformed wages

You inspired the rich

To pay taxes or donate it the poor

Because if they didn’t

They’d be sore in hell

You had the authority

When you left office

You started charity organizations

That moved to connect people

To the lives they deserved

You kept performing

While in office

You kept performing

For your fans

And fed the fever that changed the world

I was by your side throughout

Guiding you with instincts

Honed from many lifetimes

We discarded the dregs

And inspired the rest

We grew old together

Prolonging the reaper

Making the choices

That led to happiness and fulfillment

We built with our hands

A world that we would be happy

To leave to our children

And their children

And us again when we returned again

That’s the life we lived in another line

Because you dropped a line

And I picked it up

Who knows if it would be this one

But at least the possible happened

Somewhere somehow

It is beautiful

And I fear too wonderful

To exist where we are

They would try to tear us apart

They would try to kill what we would bare

But we would survive

And we would thrive

The future holds what we carry now

Let it be born in the place it needs

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Call You Cassandra

Call you Cassandra

Cuz you saw my demise

And tried to warn me

But couldn’t change my end

Call you Cassandra

Cuz you saw the future

And still became

My closest friend

Call you Cassandra

Because a person who reads fate

Yet still attends the date

Is called Cassandra

It’s not a curse

It’s a moniker

A harbinger

Of the chronicler

Of time that will come

#poetry #original poem #poems on tumblr #poem #poems #writing #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #spilled ink #redinkquill #Cassandra #love songs

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Soul’s Bright

I may be unknown

But my soul is bright

That luminescent fire

That hearts desire

Partner for hire

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Swift Love

I must have played games in my dreams

Because you keep singing about schemes

I don’t remember

I don’t recall

I still claim I did it all

Ha, it was me

It was all me

It was all you

You are resplendent

You have the following

You have the pedigree

You have the words

You have the heart

You have the art

We can make a start

Take the world

Fix it up

Take the wounds

And stitch em up

Take the pieces

And pick em up

The mess we can fix

The life we could have

The effort we can give

The transgressions we forgive

I’m not a perfect man

I’m not what you could wish for

I’m not who you pray for

But I’m what you desire

I’m the fuel for that fire

You would meet me

You might leave me

But that touch of our lives

Would change us

For the rest of our lives

#poetry #original poem #poems on tumblr #poem #poems #writing #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #spilled ink #redinkquill #love #love songs

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Love Song Delusion

What if the person you were singing about

Was me?

What if the man you were crooning for

Was me?

And I heard you

And knew

That despite who you

That smile you had

Was for me

We were so far apart

In station

In life paths

But I heard you singing

And knew I was the one

You were longing for

I know I can’t reach you

But I can’t help but think

That I was the one

Your love song was for

#poetry #original poem #poem #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writing #spilled ink #redinkquill #love

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Just in a Moment

Didn’t you know

How I felt

When I saw you

I was down sad

But there you were

Uplifted me with vision

Happiness

Fulfillment

Achievement

Children

Legacy

I saw it all

When I saw you

I just knew

I wanted you

I had to hold you

If only for a moment

#poetry #original poem #poems on tumblr #writing #poem #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #love

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Furnace Fire

The love I wished for

The longing in my heart

I found it in you

You filled me with wonder

How could I be so lucky

You filled me to fullness

Never looking elsewhere

The life we build

Gladdens me every second

The arguments we have

Feed the fire in my heart

It builds in me

Feeding the furnace of devotion

The motions the go through

Is a dance that mesmerizes

They look at us and wish

‘I should have they have’

They think and we smile

For we know that kind of love

#love #devotion #poetry #original poem #poems on tumblr #poem #poets on tumblr #writing #spilled ink

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I read something that creating something new

Takes something out of you

If you are not successful or lauded

It can leave you broken

Exposing your soul to the world

Is a frighteningly vulnerable experience

Something about creation

Saps one of their creative spark

If it’s not fed with encouragement

#poetry #original poem #writing #creation #creative spark

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Why is it called populism when normal people want government resources to benefit them

But it isn’t called anything when government resources only benefit the wealthy

#poetry #original poem #poem #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #system is fucked

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Generational Debt and Expectations

I am furious that older generations got the economy and the environment to this horrible state

And then expect younger generations to fix everything in passing conversation

But do not give us the ability or resources to fix what they broke

Like there is still lead in our water and food

There are forever chemicals in all bodies of water on earth and even in clouds

There are microplastics in everything

The environment is in crisis already and only going to get worse

And all economic data is so cooked that we can’t even acknowledge how fucked the economy is

Younger generations can’t even get educated without falling into massive debt

All of our housing options are out of reach for the majority

Jobs pay a pittance to never allow breathing room

All political leaders are either geriatric or callous and often both

Bribery is legal in the US and it’s not even talked about like it’s a problem that our system is completely corrupt

We don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system that is leveraged to control and oppress normal people by the wealthy

How do our parents expect us to fix and continue the current system when it has completely failed us?

#poetry #original poem #poem #poems #poets on tumblr #writing #spilled ink #millenials #generational trauma #pollution #system is fucked

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American Politics Reduced

On the Left Right spectrum

The Right is

Freedom to oppress

The Left is

Freedom from oppression

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American Politics

Republicans are on the right

They want the freedom to oppress

Oppress the working class as the rich

Oppress women as the patriarchy

Oppress minorities as white people

Democrats are on the left

The want freedom from oppression

Freedom to unionize as the working class

Freedom of reproduction as women

Freedom of rights as minorities

It comes down to whether you believe in your rights of freedom and what that means.

#poetry #poems on tumblr #original poem #poem #poems #writing #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #spilled ink #politics #america #right left divide

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Experience of Total Eclipse

The sun when partially occluded

Still shines as bright

As though full

Looking through special glasses

Makes you blind to the world

But you can still see the sun

Orange glowing star

With the moon slowly covering it

The more it got covered

The cooler the air got

The clouds whisked away

The sun no longer supporting them

The surroundings started to look like dusk

The birds quieted and crickets came out

Vultures circled a carcass on the golf course

As the sun got more and more covered

It went from looking like a crescent moon

Glowing orange like a halo

To looking like a sliver

To looking like a wisp

Then an arc of sun flare

And last a diamond of light

When totality arrived

I pressed a timer start button

Gasped as I saw it

It was floating light

Gentle to the eyes

I rushed to pull my phone out

To capture this rapturous image

But my phone failed to capture

The most beautiful thing

I’ve ever seen in my life

It is ethereal light

Transparent to the void

Floating around the moon

As though three dimensional

I felt a chill on the back of my neck

My hairs standing on end

It was as though I knew in my soul

That this is the most beautiful thing

I’ve ever beheld in this life

It was over too soon

Even though it lasted four minutes

A bright diamond appeared at five o clock

And I rushed to put on my glasses

As my alarm rang in my ears

It was like nothing I’ve ever seen

Surpassing grandeur that we emulate

On this world

If there are aliens

I’m sure they would love to come here

To witness this beauty

So rare in this universe

#poetry #poems on tumblr #original poem #poem #poems #writing #poets on tumblr #poems and poetry #spilled ink #redinkquill #indiana #path of totality #eclipse 2024 #eclipse

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Total Eclipse

Ethereal light

Floating in pointed arcs

Shrouding the silhouette

Of the moon

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Woke up to shaking

At 10:23

My awards from fencing

We’re shaking like leaves from a tree

Earthquake in New Jersey

Not often seen or felt

But on April 5th

We got a 4.8

Shaken in our wealth

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