PARKING STICKERS FOR THE EMOTIONALLY DISABLED

Poem By: Billy Alsbrooks 

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We are all just emotional veterans

Our souls in wheelchairs longing for the limbs of yesterday 

Somehow we think, 

if we can just find another IED to chew on 

The explosion will put us back together

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Here lately

Life has gone South

My compass can’t seem to find North 

I’m going East on West Ave 

On wrong paths making right turns 

Looking up as I’m going down 

But the confusion, in some way, makes sense 

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Have you ever been lost?

Did the way find you, or did you find it?

More people wear the shoes of fear than Nike 

But what do the adopted know about parenting?

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Mono minds love to stereo type 

Those with no clarity see others in high definition 

High definition must be seen with the ears 

So hear the warning

Surf the waves of sound and hear the warning 

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Our hearts belong to thieves 

But the thieves were at least honest 

Honest about their intentions 

Hurt people end up hurting others 

Thus we are all descendants of brokenness 

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Betrayal ran deep 

Deep in the veins of our ancestors 

Therefore, it runs in ours

We’re just a race and people of inherited pain 

The ones who say they need nothing 

Nothing from us at all

End up taking it all

But what else do you expect from family?

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Let us sit down for the stand up comedian 

Maybe he’ll say something about our Jada

Maybe we too can Rock our Will Smith attitude

Then we can all apologize for life slapping us

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I’m in a car of bitterness 

Driving through a parking lot

A parking lot full of the past

Maybe there’s a spot up front?

Can you find an empty space in us?

I don’t want to get towed 

But O’ how silly 

How silly is the humor in our truth?

Parking stickers for the emotionally disabled…