Heaven is Earned 


Heaven Gained a New Angel by Ieris-Azer

We’re all looking for heaven

Looking for answers inside

Count to ten or eleven

Only then abide.

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Journeys are long wrought with pain

Long perilous rocky climbs

Sometimes feeling all in vain

We must walk our lines.

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Sadness and beauty fill our lives

The contrast can’t be ignored

Journey filled with sharpened knives

Or even a sword.

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The hardest lessons are learned

Walk against the stiffest breeze 

All the while the world still turned

See flowers and trees.

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For later on, we look back 

Seeing how far we have come

Our accomplishments all stacked

And we know we’ve won…

-AAA 12/25/2024

The Odd Duck

Stop staring at me

You don’t know me at all

Keep your judgements to yourself

Or else you’ll be the one to take the fall.

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Just because I’m not like you

Doesn’t mean I’m in the wrong

I’ll beat to my own drummer

And I sing a different song.

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Nonconformity is not a sin

It’s just another way to live life

True uniqueness and weirdness too

Has sometimes been a personal strife.

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In my youth I wanted to belong

So much so that it made me sad

But when I didn’t fit in with my peers

It often left me feeling bad.

–

What could I say to myself

If I could journey back in time

Words of encouragement and self love

Like “No, Anthony, you’re not a slime”

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So I let these words flow out of me

My aims are honest and true

I love this oddball of a guy

And I think the world will too…

-aaa

Originally Published 06/01/2024

The Odd Duck

Stop staring at me

You don’t know me at all

Keep your judgements to yourself

Or else you’ll be the one to take the fall.

–

Just because I’m not like you

Doesn’t mean I’m in the wrong

I’ll beat to my own drummer

And I sing a different song.

–

Nonconformity is not a sin

It’s just another way to live life

True uniqueness and weirdness too

Has sometimes been a personal strife.

–

In my youth I wanted to belong

So much so that it made me sad

But when I didn’t fit in with my peers

It often left me feeling bad.

–

What could I say to myself

If I could journey back in time

Words of encouragement and self love

Like “No, Anthony, you’re not a slime”

–

So I let these words flow out of me

My aims are honest and true

I love this oddball of a guy

And I think the world will too…

-aaa