Imperfect
Tony Kim

Mind and body
with forces of nature
seeks perfect balance
where time is still
and nothing can exist

A counter balance
sways a change
a movement in time
measured for all things
perhaps that is why like me
existence is imperfect

Trippin'
Me, the fat lady and the tattooed man
thumbing a ride across the deserts span
Drinking with coyotes, sleeping with snakes
Quite the adventure this adventure we take

Nothing much was ever said, we just wore smiles
because the fat lady sang for hundreds of miles
The tattooed man would share some wit
but shared no direction come to think of it

We did stray on that moonlit summer night
Driven by spirits, our spirits in flight
Living adventurous and as free as we can
me, the fat lady and the tattooed man

Between Dreams

I sleep the day away
I wake up to find myself instead
late again and back to where I was yesterday
In a world of dreams
who can say what is really what it seems
in dreams
I live
with no tomorrow and nothing to believe

People all around
don't know why they're all feeling down
sometimes we try so hard
to do the things that can't be done
I'll never understand why I have the questions that I ask
at last
I have
a way to set my mind free from the past

Here we go again
another day is coming to and end
spent dreamt the time away no worries no regrets
nothing can go wrong
I set my mind and everything is gone
so long
I'm strong
I free myself from being all alone


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