Unyielding

Have these words caused harm

To any single one of you

Then I`d first ask forgiveness

For all that I verbally do

It`s hard (I truly know)

To let go of the past

Yet old wounds can heal

Like a bone set in a cast

If I were to reflect

The worst crime I can see

Is I run but never walk

Like water, at least mentally

That is one way I choose to say

My thoughts were often expressed rash

Anger caused within a moment

And into the future I would passionately lash

There was a time when arbor for wrongdoers

Was my most effective fuel

But feeding off pure hatred for enemies

Is the action of an ignorant fool

It was with this idea in mind

That I reset my poetic duty

Searching my heart to only find

Expressions of some verbal beauty

I prayed to God

To grant me the will

I took to the books

To refine my skill

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Patience was born

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No feeling forlorn

Now, though it still hurts

When others sneer and laugh

I still wish strangers the best

On their own chosen path

Into the white barren soil

I plant the seeds of my desire

Daily I tend to them and toil

With a will of steel and fire

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 Never forgetting

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Within the Leaves of Grass

There was a song of me

And from my mind - so crass

I soon became - so free

To meld into the air

And follow my destiny

Without one fucking care

I create my poetry.

Composed By: Andrew Drucker