The forces of love bind you by sight
They take you blind into this fright
Where you must fight to stay bright

They push on towards strange futures
Where a stranger may be a suit suitor
And so you share a life and live skewered

They drag you from love into lust
Unravels and rusts away any trust
And blanketly busts, not only what's just
But what lays inside of years old love dust

The forces of love bring joy at a price
A good versus evil that balances nice
Heartbreak not torture but experience earned
A creature tempered by the coals of love burned

I lay in bed in a dark, dark, imagery
As a cold deep shadow watches me
Monitoring--questioningly--menacingly
And I feel myself grow lonelier and lonlier
After a day in sunny foyers and populous piers
I stay shriveled in fear
That the day was a dream
And this isn't a nightmare

Upon the brink
Of rock laiden terrain
And where rocks sink
Is the one in pain

Who aches to sail
Away from woe
To turn their tail
Away from home

Mind stained red
But eyes set blue
Held thoughts unsaid
That don't align true

And so for the one
The world is darkened
Wayward to yellow sun
Arcing as  gates tend

Crossing the brink
From the high cliffs
lowering to sink
As their spirit lifts

Sometimes
when I think of the sky
and when I think of the world
I think of myself

Sometimes
when I walk through the days
and when I walk through it all
I think of myself

Sometimes
when I walk a new path
and when I walk with others
I think of myself

Sometimes
When I think
I wonder why
I think of myself

Vigorously I scribble down my thoughts
In hope to express what feeling I've caught
And transfer it to paper form
Hoping for it to become airborne
Just so it infects those without my mood
So through writings they reflect my attitude
Like a biochemical invasion of the mind
The virus spun in these webbed thoughts of mine

Nature, the grand stage
Yes, welcome to the new age
You shall engage in this absolute outrage
The outright destruction of forrest
Replaced by a city of light under behest
Of an external force, the government
But not the sole perpetrator of torment
Meet yourself, an instigator
All individuals ride this escalator
And when we reach the top
It'll fall out from under us, no stop
From the pop of your soda
To football games in Minnesota
We all fall the same if we continue this game
If we continue to ruin nature's grand play
And boo it off stage
Who will we blame?
We won't blame anyone
We'll all be dead, man

I've gone through nine different pens
    Feel like I'll be here till dusk
    Scratched my head, clawed my eye lens
    And my skull's become a husk

    With such a crude knowledge base
    Can I even write my name?
    Turns out no working took place
    While I played that zombie game

    I try to pull through this bout
    But my mind, like my bedroom
    Just has stuff I care about
    And this strange old mushroom

    Okay, think clear right now, me
    Be patient, unclench your hands
    Test, if you'll just allow me
    I'll follow your demands

    You don't want money... do you?
    No, if that fails that'll be it
    I'll fall down that abyss, true?
    Maybe I could bridge the pit...

    No, no... back to these relics
    I've gone through this test, all the rest
    And it's -all- hieroglyphics
    Like an Egyptian fest

    Will this test make or break my life?
    Then why does it have to be
    Dealing with memory strife!
    Why is this paper the key-

    I'm being too cynical
    Let's see, answer question three
    I'll run this methodical
    I'll fill this like air does me

    Hey, this word's over there too
    On that one that I had missed
    This one's plural out the blue
    Wow, look at how I play this

    Maybe as I answer these
    I'll recall some old teachings
    Maybe, probably, well... uhhh
    Yet nothing more comes to being

    I'm just a body floating dead
    Already on these waterss
    Maybe if I crane my head
    And peek over some shoulders

    No, if two tests match it's done
    ...How would she ever notice?
    Especially if it's one
    Or two questions- slow cadence...

    Ah these bars, pale, wall bounds
    Looking at them ever slow
    I hark to the class around
    And break the barrier, I trow

    His answers match all mine here!
    Is it an offense without
    Actual offense to bear?
    Wait, I hear... i wish to doubt

    Someone's already finished
    A chair screech and slide in back
    I have too-- not quite polished
    And so begins that stack

    Like dominoes they all stood
    And now they fall, some how synced
    Building up their tests like wood
    Beavers, their conformist peak

    Don't go with the big crowd!
    Just hold off, you know, check first,
    Double check that, what you found
    Maybe it was false at first

    But no, the pile piles up
    I can't see these walls past that
    I'm a lone domino, "sup?"
    And here it comes, to knock me

    Briiiiiiing
    And I shut my eyes to let it ring
    To let it sweep these desks of things
    To let it wash out my mind and soul
    Of stress, of conscientiousness
    But to displace those with nervousness
    Without a sense of complacency
    I stumble through the flowing mass
    And cast my ballot for my grading