save this world

let's do this together

let's make this happen

like we've seen in every movie

post-dating Star Wars and many before

like that blind-flying scene

feel the force

feel your longing

your love, with your full body knowing

let's make this happen

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save this shimmering, ghost world

two for naught, with a tinge of glowing affect

the sky tonight, Matthew-catholic

rains like real men cry

blues shed their macho b.s.

grey interlaced

sun lost somewhere

in the thick grove

of gulls and electric wire, crucified

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it's okay

the cold, a little damp

in the spring air

brings back the recognition

that life is not always cheerful

all will not last

indeed, happiness

as illusory as suffering

cannot be willed

or worked for, bought

or caught, but only received

as it passes, a dense forest

giving way to a cloudless sky

over a field and a pond

through the window

of a speeding train

to speak truth

turn to your right, cough

to your left, sing

in the middle, speak truth

but understand

truth is a complex affair

a paradox, a well-guarded secret

you must thread a needle

with your soul

to come close to it

and to voice it

climb a mountain

of mountains

to a sun made

of suns

better to just sing your joy

or at very least

cough your misery

that's as close to truth

as most of us 

will ever get