Dreams Undreamed

Dreams Undreamed

If you never write

another word

will what’s written

be enough

If you never speak

another rhyme

will your Muse

in silence rust

If you never hear

another’s plea

will you bear

the selfish cost

If you never feel

another’s pain

will your dreams undreamed

— be lost

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Aces & Eights

Luck is for losers

 wish as wish may

Winds of your folly

— keep fortune at bay

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This Instant

Stop waiting for your

just reward

the gift has come

today

Not past or future

but wrapped

inside

this moment on display

Freeing you from

reference

and statutes

that define

Presenting you

in every way

this instant

— most sublime

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A Freer Time

Voting against ...

no longer for

Our ballots

cast in vain

The product of

a system rigged

What’s left

in hope’s disdain

Our heroes locked

 inside death row

Their skeletons

remain

The remnants

of a freer time

Elections

— forcing change

(The New Room: June, 2026)