Neurones fighting
Firing at each other
Gladiators battling
We all want peace
Let’s start inside
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© Neil Hayes and neilhayeswriter
Battle
Category: Poetry
Disappointment
When a child, they are a god to you
They lead, you follow
Bigger, stronger, more confident
Then you grow, begin to catch up
And finally overtake
You want to learn, to improve
But they seem to be stuck in their ways
Even regressing
Unwilling to change, to grow up
They weren’t clever after all
Just bigger and stronger
What a disappointment
My big brother, America
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© Neil Hayes and neilhayeswriter
Tick, tock
Dry, wet, the whole gamut
Choking, smothering the sound
The sounds of an old man
Coming from my body?
Surely not!
Things change
Time keeps moving
Grey whiskers in the sink
Grunts of effort
My way or the highway
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© Neil Hayes and neilhayeswriter
Awareness
Gleaming, wet pavements
Still the early stages
Temperatures drop
A change of form
No longer liquid
Happening so fast
No time to react…
Now, looking at the sky
Birds are singing
Stars are appearing
Oh, my head
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© Neil Hayes and neilhayeswriter
Life Theory
We all have one
Sometimes thought out
Sometimes instinctive
Which is better?
To think or to act?
Why not both?
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© Neil Hayes and neilhayeswriter
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