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Rhythm of Life
night comes
followed by day
followed by darkness again
Animals understand
this is nature
a rhythm
a beat of the heart
a scent in the air
a change of seasons
never yielding
never asking
who is ready
BM2 John Castillo
8/25/23
Old
I am not a grown-up
I'm an old man
Whose heart is young
Still 25
Beyond the limitations
Of my life
Arthritic, pain-filled
Uncertain of step
Of any movement
Cane at the pause
Ready to support me
I am not a grown-up
I am old
BM2 John Castillo
3/6/26
I like
I will relent
My hands are painful
But then
They are peasant hands
Used to the pain
BM2 John Castillo
3/6/26
My Hands
My hands are painful
Swollen with experience
Formed of the past
To carry into the future
Every move a decision
In how much
How much
Pain I will live
How much dignity
I will sacrifice
How much of my soul
I would not be
Where I am today
BM2 John Castillo
3/6/26
If I Ran Away
If I ran away
Nothing would mean nothing
The world could not touch me
But then I would never learn
Never know success or failure
I would live in a bubble
Living would not touch
Till it did
If I ran away
Nothing would be solved
If I ran away
I do know what it is to be different. I accept difference.
I have heard the stories of how life as a Mexican could be hard in the States, then I watched my father succeed despite it. Saw myself succeed through determination. Not because I had to. But because of the way I was raised. I don't know what it is to be gay.
I had worth, not only in my family but in my community. Mom and Dad made sure all of us were given that lesson. Equality, a big word with a big meaning. Particularly in a country supposedly free and democratic.
I don't know what it is to be gay. I do know what it is to be different. To demand acceptance where none is given. I know what it is to be the specter of all ills. The reason life doesn't work. I was taught at a young age that I was equal to anyone.
Noem was unqualified bc she had no law enforcement or national security experience, no training in the law, and a low IQ.
Mullin, on the other hand, has no law enforcement or national security experience, no training in the law, and a low IQ.
loser
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Then wait for a reply
Wear corduroy not because it is fashionable
Because it is comfortable
Live my life in a library
Not a blog
Count my life in loves and not likes
Hold a woman's attention
Not a phone's
I am an analog man
In a digital world
Holding on
BM2 John Castillo
7/14/23
Analog Me
I am an analog man
In a digital world
Rotary phone raised
Hanging on the wall
Stomp for bright lights
Stomp for dim
Roll a window up
By hand
Roll it down again
Mail a letter, not a bill
Knowing I failed
To see her wants
To see my own
For obligation's sake
Carrying that mistake
That fear
Of commitment
Of life
BM2 John Castillo
9/5/22
Jane
She was a one night stand
Turned to love
A nothing special
Become everything
She is the memory
Of what love is
The loss
The enduring without
The descion always haunting
The last time seen
Standing tall and unaffected
And knowing I was wrong
Trump's actions make America and his regime look weak. he is willing to attack a small weakened country. Yet he will not stand up to Russia or N Korea in any real measurable way. That is the act of cowards.
Design of a waving black flag on a red background. It has "MY GOVERNMENT DOES NOT REPRESENT ME" written on it.
🗺️ This is for everyone who has a #government that does horrible things in their name, who voted for a campaign promise but got nothing or the opposite, who has been disappointed repeatedly, who feels unheard, or who never even got a chance to vote at all!
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Trump is talking 3rd term again. Saying he is owed such for the 2020 loss. Then Hegseth has announced that starting in 2027 officers will only be accepted from certain colleges. Colleges the administration finds acceptable. MIT is on ban list. SMDH
hear a sound ringing
in an eternity of a second
taste a flavor for the first time
the last time
enjoying the impermanence of life
in an indelible memory
like a photograph
carried into old age
BM2 John Castillo
3/30/23
Living a Life
a moment if you will
as i breath an air
thats never been
feel a warmth of sun
in it's brief splendor
see a vision as it passes
forever gone
smell a scent
from end to end
Outspoken
I speak and I am lost
I don't speak and I am lost
I will speak
BMC John Castillo
11/17/22
Children Are Beautiful
Children are beautiful things
Till we touch them
Break them
Steal their innocent laughter
Teach them the things
We fear
Rather than love
Give them hate, pain
Children were beautiful things
We ruined with us
BM2 John Castillo
3/1/26
