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Harry Is A Poet Harry Mason
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A audio archive of the poems up at http://harryisapoet.blogspot.com/
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#186 How a Comeback Starts
You frown, you're down.
They wear your crown.
Not beaten, no defeating
Time to get even...
We are strong and we are smart
This is how a comeback starts
Play with grit and play with heart
This is how a comeback starts
We will not lay down and die
We are strong I tell no lie
Let us yell and let us cry
We will win, here here is why
We are strong and we are smart
This is how a comeback starts
Play with grit and play with heart
This is how a comeback starts
We will make them run with fear
We will make them run from here
Watch them quake as we come near
When we play well we have no peer
We are strong and we are smart
This is how a comeback starts
Play with grit and play with heart
This is how a comeback starts
Victory is in our sights
Only if we play with might
We win in day we win in night
Go from here and cause them fright
We are strong and we are smart
This is how a comeback starts
Play with grit and play with heart
This is how a comeback starts
We are strong and we are smart
This is how a comeback starts
Play with grit and play with heart
This is how a comeback starts
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#185 Fate
Not everything in life is in your hands.Anything can upset the best laid plans.It sucks. I can say nothing more.When life pushes you through a certain door.For most of life, you feel in control.That you can decide if you reach your goal.The only thing standing in the way is us.As long as we work hard it'll be no fuss.And then, it breaks. The illusion fades.Effort matters, but it's just an aid.Nothing can stand against the mechanism of life.Not strength nor sadness, not calm nor strife.It can be devastating, to the utmost degree.It hurts. But that there is reality.So, what next, dear fellow and friend.Do we just accept life, and make that the end?Rise. Rise together, or rise alone.But rise to meet the fate you've been thrown.Life will have its way. It will make it's choice.But so must you. Now find your voice.
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#184 Whispers
It's how it all started.
The voices.
In the twilight hour, they whispered.
We heard them at the crossing.
Through a veil.
They gave advice we needed to hear at the time.
The advice was often simple.
Always sincere.
Time to wake up. Talk to her. Remember to breath.
They guided us in a way.
We thought forwards.
And not every step on the road is hard.
Until it becomes hard.
That step.
The voices wavered, as they always did.
A life with twilight speech
The whispers.
They don't take kindly to being ignored.
The world expects much.
But not them.
And never the people they drive.
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#183 The Verdict
Everyone wants to feel, in some way, like their thoughts matterThey want to be pitched ideas as a worthy batterWhat I didn't want, what I never wanted, was thisTo decide whether to cast a man's soul to the abyssI was selected for jury, and drawn to do dutyThe desire to do my responsibility flew through meI was chosen as an equal, and now within my handsI hold the soul of a most guilty manI've no doubt that he did it. His victims' blood runs clearThe most open and shut case they've seen this yearThe rest looked at me, shocked as I hesitateIn delivering the verdict to the official of stateYou see the death penalty is still a reality to mePart of the law of the land of the home of the freeYes this man is bad. Yes he took a man's lifeAnd I tell myself it's different, because I don't hold the knife.That he looked in their eyes and knew what he didThat his victim had a wife. The victim had a kidI try to make this repulsion to the man on the standGive the verdict that's needed as I clench my handI would like to claim, as in so many casesThat the circumstances form an uncertain basisOn which to lay enough grounds to burst out and shout"Your honour, I claim to have reasonable doubt"I don't have such a backbone on which to restInstead I face a very different testTo court holds its breath, in this theatre of the absurdSimply to cause the death of a man, by saying a wordI've waited long enough. Caused enough anguish to all.The state is waiting for me to make my call.As head juror. As citizen. As someone far from perfect.I clear my throat, and I give my verdict.
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#182 The Launch
It's time.Oh it would have been so easy.You could have stayed still.But no.You, oh noble beast. You live for a thrill.And so it begins. Slowly. The count.You inhale. Ten.This is it. What everything has led to.The thing that has filled your dreams so often.Nine. You shudder. Every last muscle.You anticipate.Even in this step into the unknown.This step into fate. Eight.You will now be propelled through time.You will experience heaven.This World is now to small.It is your fence. Seven.Six. You can feel your heart.You can feel fully alive.Now is the moment.Now is the moment. Five.Some would ask why?What is this? Four.You simply respond.So I can be Three.This moment is all.All I ever want Two.Before me is every wall.I will burst through.They doubted me.With good reason.It was impossible.It still is. One.Ladies and gentleman.We have lift off.
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#181 On Brexit
Dear everyone disheartened by this: please don't be.Now, more than ever, we need to have courage.Now, more than ever, we need to have strength.For so long, we have simply resorted to fear to make our case.Fear of the man next door, fear of the unknown.And believe it or not, this makes people scared.So now, as we face the unknown, we can not be frightened.One decision is made. But other than that, everything is on the table.The road ahead need not be that which we assume.So, to those who voted for the first time, thank you.Britain came out in such great force yesterdaySo we need you to not be scared. To not be disillusioned. To vote again.It is the job of those in politics to make this new message hopeful.That we are not just a community of an island, but of a world.To inspire the next generation into a country they want to fight for.What has happened in the past is unchangeable.What happens next is up to us.So please, be strong. We need you.
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Written 8 years ago, the morning after the results came in.
https://harryisapoet.blogspot.com/2016/07/on-brexit.html