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IT'S COLD HERE
When you
look at me
I freeze
and wished
I had something
to wear
Naked
I stand before you
not knowing what to say
Do we care
where we came from?
Do we care who we are?
Will we laugh at nothing?
Pretend not to pretend?
It keeps getting colder
Who will withstand?
and
Who will leave first?
By: Roger Harkness
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She was an Air Traffic Controller in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, about 1986. It was important for her to inform me that she was a witch and I always wondered, did she put a spell on me. I was a married man and I woke up and discovered that I didn’t have to be saved from hell and gave up all my religious beliefs and began to question everything. I learned to love myself and discovered true LOVE. Because before you can love others you have to first love yourself, trust me on this one. It was at this time I met her, so full of confidence and I was instantly in love.
It was an awesome time. I was writing three to four poems a day, feelings flowing like water and there were two other women I had fallen for. Of course it all crashed down because pretty birds belong in cages and if you’re happy you’re doing something wrong, we need to be more serious.
In the Navy your personal life belongs to Uncle Sam and this was a job for the Chaplain, who informed me that it would have been better for me to have an affair with other women then it was to fall in love with them.
In no time at all the established morality had me suicidal. If you asked why I took early retirement when it was offered to me I will tell you because I wanted to help my country pay its debts, but the real reason, I wanted my freedom back. Because I’m a true American, if I can’t be free then give me death. Freedom is that important, we need it just as much as food and water, and when it is a crime for my heart to feel, well then, we have a problem and indeed we do. You don’t believe me, try to be free with your love, sure enough, they will cut you down right where you stand without mercy, our only protection is to keep it to ourselves. So love all you want, but don’t tell nobody, trust me on that too.