Daniel
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pardon
12/16/2000 spotlights stroll the prison yard i’m stuck back in a shadow fifty feet from the closest wall watching dogs alert with my fear a tug of a leash and it’s clear i start out slow, unsure of the plan they’re looking for reasons to kill a man cheek to the wall, grabbing at brick…
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trepidation
10/25/2000 God, if i give you what you’ve earned the sacrifice that is meant to burn what will become of the world i know shallow laughs with lies below trepidation, face of fear as Your promised land draws near what if i can’t handle being real what if i break what time can’t heal but…
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arizona rain
10-10-2000 —– inspiration like arizona rain falls on the sand it abandoned flows life through the land like veins i’ve never been to arizona maybe a clue to what i’m missing a lifevest thrown from a passing plane ‘we won’t be able to save you, son but we’ll send someone you’re way’ oceans are deserts…
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the breath you exhaled into me
10-6-2000 —- it’s like finding something and only when your eyes catch sight of it then you realize that you were needing it all along and that’s what was missing – that’s what was wrong like kicking off the sheets and finding cool night air forgetting four senses getting lost in a stare twirling so…
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remember my name
2-18 —- where are my thoughts that i can explain this feeling inside neither pleasure nor pain so many miles still i haven’t moved on i remember so much that i never feel gone but i am forgotten, i must keep in mind the lives i left have left me behind there is no great…
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unerasable marks
11/15/99 i say crap and i say damnit i say i lost it as if i had it i can analyze and say i don’t care truth is i’m still wanting to go out somehwere all my complaining hasn’t taught me a thing just like reading a a hymn doesn’t teach me to sing but…
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a reason for it all
7-29-99 give me some worry give me some pain give me something so i can complain every truth i ignore every knock on locked doors every time i take a fall there’s a reason for it all give me some sleep give me some peace give me a freedom a taste of release every sin…
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5-18-99
i’m supposed to say something smart but i’m fresh out of wise everyone’s waiting to laugh they stare with pitiful eyes i can tell a story one they’ve already heard boy meets girl, and then comes that L word what audience will sit through this even though the seats are free i have to admit,…
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fair to her
is it fair to her if i’m just killing time until you’re mine? is it fair to her if i’m just holding on until you’re gone? but i won’t break her just to fix myself what if she is the one? i know you’re not, but you could be