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You know, I'm sure it's not one reason or two, but there is a reverberation about college now. This polishing away of dust and this zing. That's making lots of people excited about life again. M lovin it.

I Wish the Bubbles on my Screen-saver were Real

I wish the bubbles on my screen-saver were real

I wish the tears in my heart would dry

I want to have a good, bad fight right now

I want to have a good long cry.

I wish the world would right itself

I wish there were stores selling sensitivity, and feeling

So everyone could have a bit of them

I wish people weren’t poor. I wish I could wish away all deprivation.

I wish life was all that happy, and people all that good.

I wish everyone would wish for all that I wish, so it might just come true

I wish the bubbles on my screen saver were real.

Sombreuil Roses

A shield, seemingly impenetrable
of mind games, of
false safety.
Struck once, and fallen.
For this, all these years?
Make a wall to break it?

Except LHS is not equal to RHS here;
Cos the wall has broken what was growing on it.

'Push yourself up' - they say.
On what?
What was built upon a fallacy is now in crumbles.
'That was real' - you cry:
Who hears?

Left with a mess.
'Left with a test;
For your strengths'
Or for your courage?

Will that collapse too?
If it is false.

Who's the judge? - you demand.
Who knows?
The doubt lies. The judge stays veiled. Your courage is burning.

But wait! is that a phoenix coming through?