Day 273 - Democracy

Small slips of paper unite a nation

Trust in a system we lead

Forming under our creation

An ever growing, age old creed

We will change the way things are

If it takes our tears and sweat

Raising everything above par

A nation no one can regret

Day 205 - Choking Purity

Trap the world in a net
Somehow it will survive
Even as we easily forget
That caged, little can thrive

Block out the hopeful view
Keep your eyes closed tight
That way nothing true
Will enter the exposing light

Cut what lives down
Away from soft whiteness
Let the hope slowly drown
In angered impoliteness

What should be dancing proud
Is instead choking on fumes
The hacking grows at first loud
And then quieter as sadness looms

Purple pinches that grasp too tight
Manipulating flesh into graying bruises
If nothing seems to be quite right
In the end who is it that loses?
Better yet who really chooses?

Day 138 - Pulling From The Roots

You pulled me up from the dirt

And letting go really hurt

You wore gloves to save your fingers

But the pain of leaving lingers

In the part of me that wanted to stay

In the ground where I used to lay

You think your garden is more tidy and neat

But all that remains is simply incomplete

Life cannot be held in place

You can read that in my face

Too bad I learned that fact too late

Decay is now my unlucky fate