WRONG TYPE OF DIAMOND

mad hippie poet 1974 (new jersey)



What is this that it is shining? it is like no type of light that I have ever seen or any type of jewel that I ever touched but yet I am not a rich man it only happens to be that I got a soul. the messages are coming through loud and clear keeping me awake at night to the point where I am going to hang a sign up in my dreams saying by appointments only but I know they are not dreams because they do not make me scream.


Everything that I think of is becoming some sort of reality but as a child, it was only make-believe now I find myself running to those ivory towers with my tired eyes and my shaking voice of power.

Put my shining gold star on my childhood refrigerator because I am sorry to inform you all I finally decided to answer the call of my ancestors and all the other lost souls that did not feel that type of love because they were not shining like the other type of diamonds because inside of their hearts and minds they were a little ruff around the edges and their love affair with life for others was just to romantic

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Written on February 27, 2023

Submitted by Oakley on February 27, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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