Gambling Man

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    Gambling Man

    Amassing regret, for the instances
    I’m living for the future integrity,
    that the next generation will barely
    be able to recognize, or anticipate,
    as the savior of personal ambition.

    Falling faster, and faster, the wind
    plasters my hair against my
    sweaty crinkled brow.
    I’m scowling at the ground,
    growling it further from impact.
    The point of memory begins the day
    life became a fruitless game, not
    worth playing out.

    Signatures of the once elite,
    adorn the tombstones of millions.
    Money cushions the fall of self-
    proclaimed “conscientious” leaders,
    their reactions to kill before
    exploring patience, and each
    immolation adds another flake to
    the onrushing avalanche of fate.

    The creative retreat I seek
    is littered with the speaking souls
    of history. Impaled, and sealed within
    the tiled floor of memory.
    Faces contorted, captured in the
    act of screaming, while the cold
    floor rushes up to catch the falling
    foot of humanity’s destiny.

    I am continually caught between
    two realities: divinity and atrocity.
    Sensing the infuriated disease of
    misunderstanding, as it pulls me closer
    to internal combustion.

    The calamity is quickly silenced
    when I close my eyes, allowing chance
    to grasp my hands, to calm me, to
    soothe me, to reassure me with
    visions of things to come, yet I
    want to save the souls living in
    the slums constructed by the policies
    of political scum.

    Each sum is a statistical testimony,
    spoken esoterically through omni-
    colored filtration devices.
    Funneling proper democratic conduct
    for sedated reports controlled,
    and corrupted. The dark subconscious
    of dreams proves that insanity is what you
    make of it. Every hand reaching for
    recognition is armed with vice like
    fingers of determination.
    Signaling our lack in concentration,
    while I eye my interpretation of
    Christ’s crucifixion.

    Symbolically I try and perform
    miracles, by stirring a subordinates
    psyche into a swirling vortex of
    contextual facts.
    Mixing the riddles of ancient lore
    with the redefined principles of
    our fore fathers truths, now becoming
    lies, and conspiracy consumes me
    quickly.

    I close my material eyes to
    the atomic plume of death, appearing
    violently upon the not so distant
    horizon of choice, yet our
    actions embody our voice, and I hold
    the dice, praying, “God reaffirm my life!”

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    bforibus commented on Gambling Man

    10-16-2009

    i love the thoughts and dark visuals of a corrupt system as much as everyone else, but i do feel like it loses a lil interest because of the length and lack of a few rhyming lines throughout it. still a deep and profound thought it just didnt sing to me. great job though

    LouKyBabe commented on Gambling Man

    03-04-2009

    oh my...such wonderful work...A+.

    mysticangel commented on Gambling Man

    03-01-2009

    AWESOME!

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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    Delicate Demon 0
    Inclined to Define 0
    Blood Omen 0
    Silent Observer 0
    Falling Army Men 0
    A Mocked Indifference 1
    Rigidity US 4
    Infrastructur
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    A Cynic? Maybe 1
    Apparitions 0
    A Hush Blushing 0
    A Tiller's Son 1
    A Rung Above Poverty 0
    Sangreal 1
    Vague Fatality 3
    Empty Rhetoric 5
    Immolation 2
    Dancing 1
    Not For the Apathetic 8
    Aristocracy 6
    Always Objecting 3
    Evolution Involves Evolving 1
    Gambling Man 3
    Minions 2
    Heretical Fingerprints 5
    A Prayer From Purgatory 1
    Endearing Metaphor 0
    A Crown of Royalty 1
    Separated Angst 1
    Crucible 0
    The March 2
    Peace As I See It 1
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    "One More Rogue Nation" 1
    Roman-iacs 0
    Wrong Before One was Right 0
    Unchanged, unbiased, and focused 1
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    How This Works 2
    Mutiny or Monotony 1
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