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by Wetdryvac
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Power
April 19, 1992
I am a player of power
sometime written word
of arm, body, voice ��
I who would be teacher
within some dreamed mind ��s eye
teach the usage of power
how inner strength is centered
how to survive
for survival and self defense are easy ��
but power flows many ways
it is the form of the body
spinning on axis, hammering home
delivering to shatter bone
or to defend ��
so easy for me, always been
to call body power ��
there is abeyance of pain
holding body beyond body ��s reach
never letting mind rescind
pain can be illusion, desire the key ��
I see the power of word
spinning tales to my heart ��s endless overflowing
the word my friend in writing
but to speak eluded me
what in word makes concrete business
in voice evaporates ��
and voice
to raise and sing can be the greatest joy in the world
power contained, constrained by tone and pitch
bending your voice to demand
displaying I can, displaying
and then there is power within the mind
once through dreamer ��s crusty eye
for mind is greatest of power ��s providers
heaven of invention ��
in my mind the words form
new things and old reflected strange inside
all grasp withheld, power a negligent control
near exhumation each expression ��
and a very interesting within, this mind
for though I play the powers
easy defense, easy time
somewhere defense is not quite the answer ��
I play the power but the power plays with me
I am what I do, in doing I am every action
or I am unbecoming ��
alas, the teacher I would be is unfocused
for all the power I see in myself, I am lost ��
others �� power tempting, what I might release from them
I wish to tell ��
succor your dreams and greatest joys
look through the dreamer ��s bends ��
but I cannot teach ��til I ��ve mastered myself
set free my reservations
��til I can live without fearing power
only then dare I indulge ability
go beyond defend
no choice, power is self belief
and free of self, belief
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