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Decide Now

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Jacob Virtue under Murklins

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Decide now.

You will never have all the answers. There will always be uncompensated for variables. Even the constants are changing.  What will you gain by driving and straining to only make a decision after everything has settled and the opportunity has died before you even tried? Continue reading →

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Mary’s Perfume

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Jacob Virtue under Poems

The perfume

tells

Of Mary’s Continue reading →

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Life’s Aspiring Song

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Jacob Virtue under Poems

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Living with sincere joy,

While preaching doubts that constant toy.

This style bifurcates as my train chugs on.

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Live for more

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Jacob Virtue under Poems
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Photo taken by Lucas Johnson during the 10th World Wide Instagram Meet in St. Louis.

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What good is it to live a lie as someone else,

Endlessly exhausting myself?

What good is it to play empty roles in a world that folds under itself?

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Joy

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Jacob Virtue under Poems

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Why do I fear,

As I am surrounded by those who care?

Why do I appear,

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Fictional Memoirs: Selling Hope

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Jacob Virtue under Murklins

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How does one perceive goodness from the mundane? They sell it. The Greatest Salesman in the world once spent 11 months trying to sell one carpet. The same single carpet. Why? Why would the Greatest Salesman in the world spend rigorous hours for one sale?

Everyone told him that

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Fictional Memoirs: She

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Jacob Virtue under Murklins

She moves in her own way. A drift to astray and sometimes near when she needs air. Her feet hurt from walking all day. Her dark brown eyes wonder from the green lake on her left past the thin white and grey leopard print trees onto the rugged path in front and behind her. Though looking “up ahead” she imagines

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