By The Fire... (Part Eight)

build a bridge, or build a bunker...
your choice!

poem by Eric Cockrell
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Nobody Cares

another baby
unwanted, unholy death...
and nobody cares!

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Revelation... (Must Be God)

i have come to believe
that this lonliness must be god...

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Tibet, deliver!
redmption, restoration,
dignity, freedom!

haiku by Eric Cockrell
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i am you, you me,
we are one prism defined
by our hands, molded

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man needs a woman
woman needs a man as much!
alone, lost broken.

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there are no chosen
people, no special people,
just human people!

haiku by Eric Cockrell
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not for me, myself
by my suffering, set free
those bound by sorrow

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Crayon

your lips, the crayon,
color me hungry, wanting
to open your eyes!

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battered and bloody
i face myself one last time
- opening my hands!

haiku by Eric Cockrell
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