From Mark’s Picasa Web Album
THE AFTER LOOKOUT
I stand back aft
Not knowing what time it is
Not knowing where I’m at
Its been some time
I don’t know how much further
Don’t know when I last
Had a chance
To rest
My insides empty in the dark of night
God is here
I’m scared to death
Ice flows down my back
Falling to the deck
I can only think of three words to say
God help me
By: Roger Harkness
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This is a real life poem about my life in the Navy. In a three section watch, you would stand watch for 4 hours and be off for 8 hours before you stood watch again, however, you also worked regular work days. There would be special details (replenishment at sea and helo ops were the most common). You would have general quarter drills and fire drills. These things could happen at anytime. So basically, you could go a long time without sleep and or only time to take short naps, but either way, you get real tired. The first thing that goes is your sense of time. Fifteen minutes or fifteen hours, you can’t tell the difference. Yes it is weird. Well anyways, in this poem, I was standing after lookout in the black of night trying to do mathematical equations in my head and couldn’t figure out simple math like four plus four minus four and it was very disturbing, crying out for help into the darkness, it felt like my creator was there.
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From jeff.gaia.com
The After Life
I’m dreaming of butchers on their knees
Abusers and Accusers down and out in the gutters
While the caring, shy and meek have wings and fly
Nobody is hungry
Nobody tired
None hurt
Beauty is loved and worshiped
not used and tossed out
I’m dreaming of the after life
That place Atheist mock
You gonna be there some day
Watch what you play
I’m dreaming of liars trying to explain
Powerful people to weak to stand
serving those who never found time to rest
Nobody is called names
Nobody in chains
None is slave
The small is built up
while the tall steps down
I’m dreaming of the after life
That place Atheist mock
You’ll find yourself there some day
Watch what you play
I’m dreaming of selfish people without
Those who know it all loose their mind
While answers for questions are found all around
Nobody is owned
Nobody belongs
No one is lonely
Trees never loose a branch
and every egg will hatch
I’m dreaming of the after life
That place Atheist mock
I’m gonna see you there someday
Watch what you play
By: Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid - A Peacefulvet
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Going forward and backwards I have two judgement poems back to back, I wonder what that means. Yes I do believe in an after life, and I believe that what we do here will determine our standing there.
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Judgment Day Is Just Around The Corner
Words can kill and you’ve had your fill
Murdered a hundred and your killing them still
Telling your lies and stinking air
Making gray skys
A storm will come after you
The condemned and unforgiven
Live in a land of unliven
Where snakes hold up and the lizards crawl
Where the sun don’t shine
Wall to wall
Ain’t no living among the unforgiven
No life at all
Nothing living
At high rise of the moon
Piercing stars hide out of site
And it all comes out in the moonlight
In this rocky place
There is no water anyplace
There is no rest in this place
Don’t want to come here
Don’t want to be here
You don’t want to go there
You don’t want to be there
Don’t want to be in this place
Make it good before its done to you
You don’t want what you done
Done to you
Better make it good today
For judgment day is tomorrow
By Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid
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Do you believe in judgment day? It is a big part of my religious background. I question all of my religious background, even this, but I can’t help but believe in judgement. I have to believe that people who take advantage of others will someday, maybe in another place and time, will themselves be taken advantage of as they did to others. I just have to believe that what comes around goes around, that there just has to be justice. Such a belief, though I cannot know for sure if it is true or not, gives us hope, that if we do good, then goodness will be done to us.
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