Wax #3

I'm the fool

Beneath your maniacal sneer

Cast by an illusive fear

Seethingly whimsical and cruel

JRA

07/04/21

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Wax #2

If all is an affront,

The sum of all totals

It isn't somehow personal

Therefore, let it go

JRA

06/30/21

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Fine

Placed in judgement

Unforgiven

Viewed as wretched,

Sent in sin

Chances waning;

Time is short 

And your retort

Is always complaining

My last resort

Will not be explaining

I do not belong

In a place of shame

The arena of blame

You place

I face accordingly

Strong all along yet

Undermined

Seemingly ghosted,

Horribly roasted

So the other half

Seems fine.

JRA

06/29/21

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Lead

Then what

Will be revealed instead?

I can't lead those

Who won't be lead.

Wax #1

It's so easy to criticize

So much harder to recognize

Yourself within another

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Anacréon

Anacréon, 

Prithee thee 

In such a way of opportunity

Show unto me

The words I must convey

And to ascribe a way -

Absurd as it might be

To say

Abundance is expectantly

Awaiting me impatiently

Buy and by and bye

J.R. Adams 

021921

Trouble

A being of trouble,

In so being troubled,

I sought trouble out

As if to scoff at the pale

Aloft, the scale,

Seeing trouble 

Sought me out -

A weight cast,

As darkness,

In sharpness,

Cut through to bone

Trouble had found me

Out

And would not

Leave me alone

Jeffrey Robert Adams

2021