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Category: Book of Benji

  • Enough

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    Her:  “I love you” Me:   “How much?” Her:  “Enough” That’s the tail end of a conversation that a had with someone a long time ago.  I didn’t understand it at the time but she was 100% right/truthful/correct in her answer to me.  At the time I was a bit disappointed with her answer.  I wanted…

  • The First Step

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    The First Step I’ve run it through my mind a million different times Rearranged the words into a million different rhymes It still sounds good and makes sense so why not act? The theory has been proven so why not take it as fact? Is it doubt that stays my feet preventing my step? Or…

  • The Stranger

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    The Stanger Our eyes caught each other while I write things down I looked for an expression, a smile, surprise or frown Even Though I fight it I’m forced to stare again I really didn’t want to, it wasn’t part of my plan Again I end up staring, continuing the search for my prize What…

  • Love or Fear?

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    I was talking with someone that I admire very much and she told me that you act either out of Love or Fear.  Love cannot exist in fear and fear cannot exist in love. Hearing it woke me up a little.  Actually alot!  I started questioning my actions of late.  Was I acting out of…

  • Ten Things I Love About My Son and Why

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    He’s so gosh darn cute! –  Yea every child is cute (ok, maybe not all of them) especially your own but he has this look about him that is young and youthful and at the same time mature.  Its one of the reasons I’ve always called him my “Little Man.” He tells it how it…

  • Scaredy Cat

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    Scaredy Cat My lifelong pet who grew pretty fat through the years On a diet of worry, uncertainty, and fears You watch me move toward dreams and aspirations With a disapproving look, you cause me hesitations I wish you would just leave and run away Disappear altogether and become a stray My actions betray my…

  • Stalking Yourself

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    Stalking Yourself Contradiction.  In case you missed it, let me say it again.  Contradiction.  That’s what we all are.  What?  Its in that great divide between how most of us act versus who we really are inside and what we really want to do.  I understand that we have to behave in order to keep…

  • Where Were You When I Needed You?

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    Where Were You When I Needed You? Where were you when I needed you? When my heart fell apart and I needed the glue When I stood cold and alone You didn’t answer your phone When nothing seemed to dull the pain I sat and I cried and sobbed your name I needed you bad,…

  • The Scorpion and the Fish (Part 1)

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    Once upon a time, there was a Scorpion and a Fish. They lived on land and in the ocean respectively. Not content with where they were, together they go on an adventure to get where they want to be… One sunny day both were on the beach, the Scorpion on the sand dreaming of a…

  • Temple to the Barrel (Part 3)

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    Rays flicker through the smoke from the lightening as it crackles outside. Again and again light illuminates the smoke-filled room as their eyes continue to lock in an unexpected stalemate. Her with both hands on her gun pointed firmly at his forehead. And him, with one hand on a shard of glass wrapped in a…