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Do Better.

3 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Most humans are full of deceit and this I knowEven from the unlikeliest of sources, you find themRipped at heart and with an aching heart you wonderWhat has happened to humanity as our sanity wanderI thought they said what is good for the goose is...

The alley answered: A blackout poem from page 5 of The Matrix Screenplay

2 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

An alley can be looked at as a kind of roofless tunnel. In “The Symbolism of Tunnels in Literature”, Linda Emma informs us that tunnels serve as “symbolic representations of journeys and passages” such as “from a place of darkness and doubt to a plac...

No One Else.

2 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

We've been told to be strong but some pains can be unbearable anywayYou are broken and spent as it takes every strength you have awayYou feel it so intensely and you wish it would go away somedayYou keep going through life with faint hope every day...

Another Day Ends

2 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

Navigate the ups and downsThe roller-coaster of life,Avoid the world's clownsFight and come out alive.External annoyancesOr internal conflicts,All sides come the forcesJust deliver life's scripts.Tai chi them far awayBrush off with my hand,Don't let...

Process.

1 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Life is never easy and this I know wellI've learnt courage from the weak moments I went throughI've had to learn to love by the heartbreaks I went throughI cherish what loyalty means by those who betrayed meWho am I not to appreciate life if not fo...

Golden Wedding

1 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

These fifty years past,You were a faithful wife.Never dared I dream we would last,Now, I say we have a memorable life. Ours was an arrangement,Made when I was four and you, two.There was a little payment,Twenty years on, all went through. I was rathe...

Allow It...

30 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

There is a lot more to us than we can understandWe are a product of our dominant thought, we've heardThis makes it entirely our doing as to how we choose to turn outWe need to evolve in our thinking and our waysIf nothing changes, that's because we...

Thankful For You.

30 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

I don't have to see the Sun before I believed in it as long as I can feel itYou are away from me yet it seems as though you are nearYou make going through life so easy for me to bearDon't worry, I won't cry, I am holding on, not a single tearYour p...

Honeymoon

30 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments emily2u

We’re on our honeymoon,Only the second day or so.It won’t end so soon,There are twenty more to go.Here in the City of Love,Where each experience is new,We bought, then released a dove,For what purpose, no one knew.Sure is refreshing to shareIntimate...

Orders: A social justice blackout poem from page 4 of The Matrix Screenplay

30 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

According to the National Statistics Domestic Violence Fact Sheet: "1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as inju...