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Spinning Plates

from A Flash Of Brilliance by Lord Baldwin

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Spinning Plates

Push the button on the alarm to give me just another five
and to muster up enough ambition
to get out of bed this time.
Standing up, taking on the mantle of provider and then
I feel the weight of the world being placed
on my shoulders once again.
All the commitments and obligations; well, they are what they are,
and the money for any number of other things
will only go so far.
So everything is up in the air, balanced centrifugally while it waits,
as I shift from one to another making adjustments,
spinning plates.

Hurry here, hurry there, and I hate to cut in that line
but I do what I can do to cut corners
only to save a little time.
Running from place to place, a little late wherever I go,
always a little out of it,
and with answers that I don’t know.
Another day brings new obligations hard to keep up with demand
especially when I never tell em no
or that I’m bluffing with an empty hand.
But I keep on going with unviable goals and unrealistic dates
as things teeter oh-so precariously;
spinning plates.

So many promises and pledges vowed to friends and family ties;
assurances made with hollow words
can be very much like lies,
and as I obligate myself, giving guarantees that I can hardly keep
love has a way of justifying
me keep getting myself in way too deep.
So many irons in the fire, doing everything under the sun
Little piece here, little work there,
hard to get any one thing done.
But I keep on going; circling the room, balanced on roller skates
rolling from here to there, juggled balls,
spinning plates.

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from A Flash Of Brilliance, released December 25, 2015

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Lord Baldwin Olympia, Washington

Lord Baldwin has created 44 ALBUMS
between 1991 and 2001

Between 2011 and 2023, created, 23 ALBUMS

Published a 4-book series called, “Stepping Between The Ants”

A 4-book series called, “From The Lost Letters Sent” chronicling the first 44 albums' songs created between 1968 to 2001

As playwright, wrote a musical play (book) called;
““RESILIENT the Musical” A Web-Based Episodic Play & Story” ... more

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