Disenchanted Charms

I know disenchanted charms
Sold in the window shop at the highest dollar
Saw men turn to dogs
Salivating and panting over a gold collar
While their shoes wear out
They've been walking the hard road
Looking for a way out

And they say all you have to do is cross the tracks
Past the broken down carts covered in graf
Past the dwindling budget with a frustrating math
Yet a child still looks to the sky and dreams big
The sweet prairie air carries her laugh

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The Beginning

I felt branded without meaning
Consumer chaos
At a loss under the neon lights
In the dusty shop window sits a notebook
My first hope book
And with courage I wrote my first rhyme
Tentatively showing the world

As a child I crawled under my first grade teachers long flowing dress
Innocent eyes staring up at a pantyhose covered butt
So far from the objectification
The sexism and smut
Now it's what we both can achieve
That turns me on

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Don't Let Me Reach Love Yet

Don't let me reach love yet
I want more reckless passion and quick regret
Why not comfort and a safe bet?
My heart pounds with the uncertainty of tomorrow
The chance of seeing her face in a crowd
She just lived around the corner
Had a bottle of Merlot and a life sized canvas
She had painted the skyline without the reality of man made destruction
I traced the clouds delicately and the memories came flooding back
They filled the room and I felt light on my feet
She's behind me
Red wine on our breath
"I'm leaving the city soon but..."
We never had that conversation
Unfinished sentence so fitting
Because I don't want to reach love yet

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