life is a ghostwritten script
a half-heard whispered soundtrack
of cues and quotes we’ve ripped
from old remastered notes, unverified facts…

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life is an unwritten message –
never sent, unborn, undead,
relating a world without age
where words merely babble, only read

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to alter their sense
and scatter random clues which give
us relics of self, and change the tense –
a poem of birth to live.

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and we retrace our poems of birth
alive in love in every time
and every breath
whose heartbeat pumps our rhyme –

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our poetry mutates
us and those who heed
our words in altered states
wake love out of need.

                                freddie
                                june 2011