Poem By: Dr. Billy Alsbrooks
From: Burning (Christmas 2022)
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How long can we hold onto the shadows?
Wherever we go, we make the city ours
Every night I study the light seekers
Their gentle madness carrying me through the imperfect
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‘O how eye need you
Need you beyond the limit of words
Who else
Who else but you can help me war with the merchants
The merchants of culture
The vultures of those who think for themselves
‘O how eye need you
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What do cockroaches know about honesty?
What do the chickens know about love?
Let us choose to live more than we fear dying
Let us believe stronger than the grip of doubt
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Eye care
Care so much about you
Eye see you under the skin
Down to the aurora
Down to the color spectrum which none have known
Eye care
Eye really do
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My hands struggle
Struggle to stand in the storm of creativity
Your winds blow
Blow forbidden wisdom on my soul
Violent and treacherous are the phrases you rain
Fierce and brutal are the winds of your pain
Yet the lines are soaked with mastery
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Here eye sit
Sit lonely in revelation
Fully aware now, after the evanescence of your downpour
It all makes sense
It all makes sense now
If one thinks
Those thoughts shall eventually overcome him
The fire in the mind shall burn
Burn the path until destiny is secure
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We bow
Bow to the unseen kingdom of thought
For she is the true power and authority behind the rule
Doors of the Skull…
