**Rinse And Repeat**

sands of time
trickle unnoticed out
of an hourglass stuck
at half tilt while
a distant sun makes its way
through another
broken morning of skies
crashing down around us
before fading
into the dust of the
#history we learnt to
laugh about because
tomorrow is
just the same
#vss365

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**Candle In The Wind*

Panicked guttering follows
A cold fingered touch of air
Heavy with winter's malice
As shadows turn and #shift
In a flickering dance with
The soft glow of candlelight
A two toned caress of
Deep black and golden flame
So filled with sorrow
That the wind stills
With sympathy
#vss365

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**Nothing But The Hits!**

A new song
Is all we ask for
But it's the same
Tired old words
Every time
We turn on the radio
Yet what do we
Expect when anyone
With anything to say
Is just a cover band
And like fools
We keep
Buying the albums
Because who doesn't
Need another #dose
Of repackaged truths?
#vss365

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**It's Just Logical**

What if my ghost writer were
Lines of code
Housed on some machine
What earnestness of verbiage
Mingled with
What #galore of processed words
I might create
But when innermost thoughts
And creativity
Are confined by the limits of logic
Can we call it art
And is it even
Mine
#vss365

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**Follow The Leader**

What powers
Of persuasion are these
That we feel the need
To move as one
To abandon all thought
For ourselves
In the passionate pursuit
Of a single minded
Obsession
Falling without question
Into line
How #massive
A failing it is
That we follow so blindly
So called leaders
#vss365

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**Memory Made Meaningless**

I understand wanting
To rewrite the #script of history
But it's disorienting to have
Memories tied to places that
Go by a new name these days
Tom Jones is just some singer
And Piet Retief is a stranger
And I couldn't tell you
For the life of me
Who O.R. Tambo is
Either
#vss365

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**A Whispered Mourning

The wind echoes
With the rusting of a
Pistol shot weeping red into
The remains of a memory
Where there lies a secret
Made #deadly by the price
Of beauty
In the dark hollow of a hill
That sits forgotten at the
End of a nameless lane
Beneath a veil of moonspun
Silk & sorrow
#vss365

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**Could We Just Pause?**

We've all had those moments
You know the ones
Where you wish you could
Stop the whole world
Just for a minute
Freeze it right there
And savour it
But time moves on
And she waits for no one
So I guess I'll just be here
Filtering through ambient static
The memories I'll always miss

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**Unkempt**

If you go down that way
You will find at the end of a path
Overgrown and tangled
With the best of intentions
And resolves to change
The abandoned House of Never
Built, they say
From heartfelt promises and
All the things we wouldn't do
Lies we didn't mean to tell
And those we did

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**It's Up To You Now**

We helped raise a glass
ceiling we didn't build over
a kitchen they insisted
we belonged in
We wanted to shatter it
#Crack it at least
Only they wouldn't let us go
so we couldn't reach
But the fight made our
shoulders strong enough
For you to stand on
And break it
finally
#vss3

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