Tidily Bits I & II

I

It starts and ends with a handshake;

If you are wise then you know my meaning.If you are foolish then you will soon find out.
Alone in the night I dost walk these streets of cobbled Maine.
In hopes of finding a sweet retreat this countenance shall refrain.
Alas the darkness shields me from wandering piercing eyes
And although the weak shall be weary I still will my disguise.
Those above me reckon that I revere them the same
Those below me shrink to the bottoms that can't be named
I alone walk this chosen road,amongst the dwindling light
For I have lied my way to the stars and for that I will His might.
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II

A second is a powerful thing;
Life can blink out in a second and can be reborn in the next.
The tides of war has changed in a furious second
As calm replaces the previous
A second is a powerful thing
A child's screams
mothers cries over sacred dirt
A miracle described
A tragedy lost
The universe to time to us
For us
A second is a powerful thing
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