APPRECIATE YOUR REALITY
POETRY: BY – JOSEPH MAXWELL SPENCER
Anxiety is my reality
A cascade of body chemicals
Autistics are incapable of being anxious
Prison time to desensitise and regain control
Pay attention to visual clues
Avoid interpreting things too much
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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Motorbiking on the road was my reality
Been in a few crashes, I know
Knocked down a brickwall in one
Ended up among the trees in another
Bounced off along an icy road in a couple
Amnesia invaded my brain each time
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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My fiancee was my reality
Her beautiful hair cascades down her shoulders
Admiring her big Yorkshire eyes
She always look ever so beautiful, I remember
We get to hugged and kissed
We even walked hand-in-hand in lovers’ lane
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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My conviction was my reality
Hearsay evidence of opinion is not a myth
It ruined my senses of the world already
With the jury explosion of guilt by 11 to 1
The court’s verdict knocked me senseless
Maintaining my innocence come hell or high water
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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My prison life was my reality
It’s realistic to be mentally prepared
You can tell if something’s brewing
Just get out of the way and stay in your cell
Don’t go around panicked all the time
That’s my realistic plan
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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My loneliness is my reality
Families are separated physically
They suffer heavy loss by life separation
Waking up everyday in a lonely place
Where some piece of you go missing
This was what my reality feels like
Appreciate and evaluate your reality
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