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Parades like a peacock
Around social circles
Inside he hides humility
That won’t show in his purpose
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Fading fast in heavy grass
Head down as the tale perks up
His pride won’t die, he has ability
Because of love in surplus
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Nothing done wrong
Life like a song
Just Peace and Love he worships
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Obeys the hand he got
Ignores social knock-offs
Aim to prove all he sees
Their bluff to him: a lost cause
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She rakes in wins as he begins
But they make him nervous
Her cry inside no others see
Because no tears will turn up
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No fallen rain
A hidden pain
No truth can be as pure as
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Amazing claim he makes now
Desperate to connect
Stakes a life on dreams
At least ones he can protect
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Lends his ears to love he hears
Music and folk he respects
Strength resides in bends and slides
Quick-picking flies how he reflects
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A web she weaves
He never leaves
His soul she resurrects
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Sustains breath in his sprit
and prays no one objects
Here, there and everywhere
Simple jealousy upsets
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Each day-to-day he lives and pays
Experience he can’t forget
Skeptics unfairly stop and stare
What they don’t get, they reject
*
View of the sun
We each have one
The image that projects
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Home is where the heart is
Everywhere we go
But if our heart is hidden
Home we may never know
*
She was treated wrong
All day long
When she reached out
They turned away
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Rules of fools
Didn’t allow
True words she would say
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So her heart
Was hidden away
and her shadow came to play
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Chastised like a spider
At home an outsider
Inside she hides humility
That’s what they’ve denied her
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All she tried they’ve defied
They aren’t the ones to guide her
Her pride won’t die
Peacefully
She needs a web that’s wider
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Create a norm
Instate a storm
Include each and every rider
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Invading as a glider
Social justice-minded
Applied fine agility
To find a spot beside her
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Caring wide for those he spied
Sharing words that wouldn’t chide her
In moments they had solidarity
But our system is the great divider
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No human bond
Or care beyond
The majority decider
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Rain could still immerse us
In our social circles
Lives with more tranquility
Trapped beneath the surface
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The pain’s the same as curses
Unspoken words or verses
Public codes of civility
Stigma will never nurse us
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Feeling unsaid
Love left for dead
While the richest fill their purses
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A bright bird becomes demure
Larger-than-life tourist
Why project misery?
Their caring is the surest
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The purest words are rarely heard
From social usurpers
Power lies with such hostility
Our culture kills or cures us
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We need magic
That isn’t tragic
Kindness that conjures us
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Kind is a heart making good
Anywhere it goes
But if a heart is hidden
Hope may never show
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He was treated wrong
All day long
When he reached out
They made him pay
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Fuelled by rules
They sat and frowned
True words they wouldn’t say
*
So their hearts
hid away
and his shadow came to play
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Day fades far behind trees
Beyond social safety
In night they fight fragility
Boundary in dreams
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Goals of peace just won’t cease
Labeled disordered or diseased
Kindness treated as disability
Blind system is a beast
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No caring voice
Or sharing joys
Blood-thirsty rich do as they please
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Moon peaks past tired trees
Mirrors social deep-freeze
Awake always in fear’s proximity
Tears shine and can’t appease
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Lone star greets, Our eye meets
Adheres to day’s defeats
Strive to stifle anxiety
Vision with no light cheats
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Save grace
To change this place
Fierce Hope never retreats
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Sunrise with acute focus
Today still seems dangerous
No social responsibility
Politician rich and famous
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Those we chose no one opposes
Approach a door and it closes
Attack a lack of accountability
So clear no one chose this
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Pride past dollars
Lifelong scholars
Stigma in control imposes
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Disgrace that is ludicrous
Unfairly overtaken indigenous
Allies denied connectivity
Kind people treated heinous
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Striking poses and We know this
Few between truly show this
Pray, don’t say “futility”
Optimism thrives like roses
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Ever-fertile Earth
Cultural rebirth
Sun and moon that tows us
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Home is where the heart is
Everywhere we go
If our hearts are hidden
Home we never know
*
People treated wrong
For so long
Try to reach out
But get turned away
*
Rules uncool
Not allowing
True words we have to say
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So our hearts
Get hidden away
Embrace the place where shadows stay
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MacroMichael 