Dave Cadaqu Poems

America shattered

Terror cannot be fought with terror.
I do not recognize the faces on the streets
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I miss her much, life goes on.
The feelings rumble and clang so familiar inside of me,
To when she was here (that I could see and hear and touch)
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You my father both dark and light
Long these many years from my sight
Your edges worn blunt, and embers unblazed
Waves battered on the shore eroded, but saved
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For every plus, a minus.
It is the measure of humanity
To amplify the plus,
And diminish the minus
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Trait
A characteristic
Trait tore
A characteristic of ripped from…
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To the roots of your soul my children
You are never alone.
Formed of long lines
Stretching back to the beginning of time
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Some days are an ice cream Sundae;
Others, a mouthful of ocean.
So many make no mark at all,
Rung up and forgotten.
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Two Questions

Perhaps the measure of life
Is but two questions,
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