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aide for a falling soul
broken tree in dream
        If through shame
    the voice of poems does leave me
   I lay in my bed and lament how
     my loving you can never be enough
        to satisfy the inadequacies of being
   such a retched failure in the eyes of men
    and of God.

  I go deep within it, that slumber
     of inaction where
 shame beats you at the face with it's broken tree dreams
    of failure, things that could be
    if I don't smarten the F_k up right away . . . let's go!

  So I drive to the sky where the wind meets the stone
  I fall towards the Heavens with the rain all alone
    I rise in my mind as I fall in my deeds
   but halt just above the entangling weeds.

  And when I awake
     that tree, that broken tree
  from the dream
    is not broken.
  I am not fallen
     any farther than I needed to in order to land with my feet
                 on the ground

Cliffs at Yosemite
El Capitan is not broken and does
not need to be fixed.
Fortunatly cliffs can not
be burned down.  And there
are no quarries in Yosemite.
The trees, however, will burn.  
Here are some burned trees in 
Yosemite:
Burned Trees at Yosemite

A prayer for 
upliftment of soul

There may be shame
but there is also
forgiveness.  I am
heartfully sorry
for my inadequate
behavior.  I will try 
to be better.  Give
me strength, Lord, to
succeed-at in the future
from what I have failed-at
in the past.  Make me
a better man ; )



An EMO poem:

OMG
I am fully
sarr E
for 1/2ing
offended
U

I confess
for all my
snark and meanness
and do hope for Ur
forgivenesses

  amen

OK, maybe not so EMO.
EMO is one of those
new things that when
you first hear about it
and you hear the description
of an EMO girl it is
like OMG they've got a
name for that kind of person.
It's just so F in funny.