Elis - Hello Poetry

Everyone’s scared Scared of love Scared of life Nothing is fair Fair is a lie Fair ain’t life I can see all the lost boys I can see all the children I feel the spray of a hot spring I sing a song about family I can feel the spark of life And it’s fading away Nobody cares Cause nobody’s there Watching over Only mocking me It’s torture I can see all the lost boys I can’t save all these children I feel the spray of a hot spring I sing a song about tragedy I felt the spark of life And it’s fading away

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Nov 30, 2020

Nov 30, 2020 at 8:56 PM UTC

Elis

It’s Fading Away

Everyone’s scared Scared of love Scared of life Nothing is fair Fair is a lie Fair ain’t life I can see all the lost boys I can see all the children I feel the spray of a hot spring I sing a song about family I can feel the spark of life And it’s fading away Nobody cares Cause nobody’s there Watching over Only mocking me It’s torture I can see all the lost boys I can’t save all these children I feel the spray of a hot spring I sing a song about tragedy I felt the spark of life And it’s fading away

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Teasing danger Playing god with snow globes I’ll shake up your world But I’ll never let go In-between flag poles Stubbornly un-sovereign From the nation whose working class chose To vote for an elitist dictatorship unopposed Scraping by stitching smiles on lampposts Plastering hope on a news feed Raising our lighters to false hopes To again see in the press our democratic right the **** of the joke Keep in your lane Stay in your estates Someone else is always to blame For the last 10 years of mistakes Governed by Snakes in suits Bowing to rats in boots Saluted by prats in robes Voted in by tw*ts who chose That they’re who knows what’s best for normal humans.

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Jan 4, 2020

Jan 4, 2020 at 10:03 PM UTC

Elis

In-between Flagpoles

Teasing danger Playing god with snow globes I’ll shake up your world But I’ll never let go In-between flag poles Stubbornly un-sovereign From the nation whose working class chose To vote for an elitist dictatorship unopposed Scraping by stitching smiles on lampposts Plastering hope on a news feed Raising our lighters to false hopes To again see in the press our democratic right the **** of the joke Keep in your lane Stay in your estates Someone else is always to blame For the last 10 years of mistakes Governed by Snakes in suits Bowing to rats in boots Saluted by prats in robes Voted in by tw*ts who chose That they’re who knows what’s best for normal humans.

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Gran runs to break the ballots Those old weathered hands Are the answer to why Youth never had a chance Lined up in a row, walking stick in tow The tide of lies that they believed Turned a vote to a stampede With age comes weary wisdom With age comes deathly fear You’re cold, scared and vulnerable Your once distant future is now here Your time has been and gone Don’t hold the next generations back With outdated bigotry and hatred You’re white blood cells on the attack I’ve lost track of all the times you spit the seeds out in the grass I wonder if in time The seed will birth a tree to feed the classists Leaves will blossom, weeds will rot them Fire will burn the bark to ashes The smoke makes me sick, there’s no wood left to build my kaleidoscopic casket So I can bury all my points of view I can’t be ambivalent near fascists

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Nov 18, 2019

Nov 18, 2019 at 8:11 PM UTC

Elis

The Old Are All Right

Gran runs to break the ballots Those old weathered hands Are the answer to why Youth never had a chance Lined up in a row, walking stick in tow The tide of lies that they believed Turned a vote to a stampede With age comes weary wisdom With age comes deathly fear You’re cold, scared and vulnerable Your once distant future is now here Your time has been and gone Don’t hold the next generations back With outdated bigotry and hatred You’re white blood cells on the attack I’ve lost track of all the times you spit the seeds out in the grass I wonder if in time The seed will birth a tree to feed the classists Leaves will blossom, weeds will rot them Fire will burn the bark to ashes The smoke makes me sick, there’s no wood left to build my kaleidoscopic casket So I can bury all my points of view I can’t be ambivalent near fascists

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We’re Generation lied to Absorbing fake news We don’t trust a soul So rare is the truth We’re Generation pollution Pretending we don’t care No one will be laughing When we’re gasping for clean air We’re Generation priced out Forever burdened by debt They don’t care you’re hungry and freezing The taxman has come to collect We’re Generation depressed My mood swings like a rope dangled from a tree I keep picturing a silhouette sway lifeless from a noose on the end I can’t help but imagine it’s me We’re Generation false hope Promised it all How highly you built us How fast did we fall?

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Apr 13, 2019

Apr 13, 2019 at 4:12 AM UTC

Elis

Generation Z

We’re Generation lied to Absorbing fake news We don’t trust a soul So rare is the truth We’re Generation pollution Pretending we don’t care No one will be laughing When we’re gasping for clean air We’re Generation priced out Forever burdened by debt They don’t care you’re hungry and freezing The taxman has come to collect We’re Generation depressed My mood swings like a rope dangled from a tree I keep picturing a silhouette sway lifeless from a noose on the end I can’t help but imagine it’s me We’re Generation false hope Promised it all How highly you built us How fast did we fall?

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We’re heartless but emotional We’re lonely but sociable We’re threatening but approachable We’re different but the same We’re happy but sad We’re chilled out but mad We’re gutted but were glad We were born insane We’re sure as hell but indecisive We’re together strong but so divisive We’re selfish but we'll sacrifice this We’ve got nothing here to gain We’re ****** and ******* Through arteries and veins We look clean but we're stained We’re pleasure and were pain We’re the worst then the best We’re the cursed and the blessed We’re ignorant but obsessed That we’re no different from the rest We’re the strong and the weak Half awake, half asleep We’re the bright and the dull Half empty, half full We’re the old and the young Emerging from shadows to feel the burn of the sun Put down the knives, put down the guns Stop waging wars forged by fake words, fake politics, fake divinity Make peace, make love, make life My unholy trinity

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Mar 17, 2019

Mar 17, 2019 at 9:10 PM UTC

Elis

My Unholy Trinity

We’re heartless but emotional We’re lonely but sociable We’re threatening but approachable We’re different but the same We’re happy but sad We’re chilled out but mad We’re gutted but were glad We were born insane We’re sure as hell but indecisive We’re together strong but so divisive We’re selfish but we'll sacrifice this We’ve got nothing here to gain We’re ****** and ******* Through arteries and veins We look clean but we're stained We’re pleasure and were pain We’re the worst then the best We’re the cursed and the blessed We’re ignorant but obsessed That we’re no different from the rest We’re the strong and the weak Half awake, half asleep We’re the bright and the dull Half empty, half full We’re the old and the young Emerging from shadows to feel the burn of the sun Put down the knives, put down the guns Stop waging wars forged by fake words, fake politics, fake divinity Make peace, make love, make life My unholy trinity

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Finding an audience beneath the gods and stars The night sky is always listening Not even Jupiter or Mars Can stop a sunless heart from glistening I seek my solace above even air So far up gravity can’t drag me down I’ve learnt that nobody cares Down here on the ground Always staying radiant Yet like Erebus bound to shade Until morning light comes Apollo curses stars to fade I’ll always be here waiting At the end of every day Stood absurdly patient Itching to have my say Like a drug the taste of moonlight Let’s me release and ease my mind Ease your own and simply realise We’re but a spec just born to die Infinitely small in a universe infinitely big Look up and feel yourself shrink Feel the sky expand above you It gets scary the more you think I find beauty in the wonder Sadness all the same Parallel to awe in hearing thunder Forlorn boredom at following rain Pushing a boulder up an endless mountain The struggle itself enough to fill a man’s heart Swallowed and spat out like water in a fountain Every time I get close I’m thrown back to the start Bereft of belief there’s an eternity to sink into with conscience clean I almost hope there’s no light at the end of the cave Omnipresent white bearded psychopath always judging me Maybe heaven is just a tale softening transition from ground to grave But when we kick the bucket into endless fall back Who says that the other side has to black? Maybe they’ll show you dimensional paths You landed on your feet and escaped gods wrath I see my gods every night Ruling sky’s I’m graced by the divinity Still shining blindingly bright Forever I’ll observe this affinity It may seem odd and obscene You’ll think I’m crazy if you see I’ll still painstakingly preserve this routine Because the stars are all that’s looking out for me

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Jul 19, 2018

Jul 19, 2018 at 1:29 PM UTC

Elis

The Myth of Sisyphus

Finding an audience beneath the gods and stars The night sky is always listening Not even Jupiter or Mars Can stop a sunless heart from glistening I seek my solace above even air So far up gravity can’t drag me down I’ve learnt that nobody cares Down here on the ground Always staying radiant Yet like Erebus bound to shade Until morning light comes Apollo curses stars to fade I’ll always be here waiting At the end of every day Stood absurdly patient Itching to have my say Like a drug the taste of moonlight Let’s me release and ease my mind Ease your own and simply realise We’re but a spec just born to die Infinitely small in a universe infinitely big Look up and feel yourself shrink Feel the sky expand above you It gets scary the more you think I find beauty in the wonder Sadness all the same Parallel to awe in hearing thunder Forlorn boredom at following rain Pushing a boulder up an endless mountain The struggle itself enough to fill a man’s heart Swallowed and spat out like water in a fountain Every time I get close I’m thrown back to the start Bereft of belief there’s an eternity to sink into with conscience clean I almost hope there’s no light at the end of the cave Omnipresent white bearded psychopath always judging me Maybe heaven is just a tale softening transition from ground to grave But when we kick the bucket into endless fall back Who says that the other side has to black? Maybe they’ll show you dimensional paths You landed on your feet and escaped gods wrath I see my gods every night Ruling sky’s I’m graced by the divinity Still shining blindingly bright Forever I’ll observe this affinity It may seem odd and obscene You’ll think I’m crazy if you see I’ll still painstakingly preserve this routine Because the stars are all that’s looking out for me

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Stars and slingshots Hot rocks flying through the sky Matter blinking at me non-stop Doesn’t matter were alive Expanding blackness or bliss Darkness that I can’t resist Black holes and myths Shards of lights and comets Surviving on the one round stone I’m capable of breathing Stumbling around with no money desperate for a meaning Corrupt with greed and corporate crime Dead presidents more powerful than the one that’s still alive Money is divine The bank is god Stealing is a crime When the rich are getting robbed It’s complex but it’s primal A thirst to have the most Spit in the faces of your rivals Stash away and hoarding paper notes Consumer capitalism is a miracle Built a world connected But made us all so cynical We sit in mansions miserable It’ll only end when the sun and sky collapses ***** us all in whole Won’t be a god to grace you You can’t cash in your worthless souls By then we’ll probably be somewhere else Where the wheels keep turning Crushing the poorer and helping ourselves On and on until the universe is burning.

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Feb 5, 2018

Feb 5, 2018 at 9:40 PM UTC

Elis

Stars and Slingshots

Stars and slingshots Hot rocks flying through the sky Matter blinking at me non-stop Doesn’t matter were alive Expanding blackness or bliss Darkness that I can’t resist Black holes and myths Shards of lights and comets Surviving on the one round stone I’m capable of breathing Stumbling around with no money desperate for a meaning Corrupt with greed and corporate crime Dead presidents more powerful than the one that’s still alive Money is divine The bank is god Stealing is a crime When the rich are getting robbed It’s complex but it’s primal A thirst to have the most Spit in the faces of your rivals Stash away and hoarding paper notes Consumer capitalism is a miracle Built a world connected But made us all so cynical We sit in mansions miserable It’ll only end when the sun and sky collapses ***** us all in whole Won’t be a god to grace you You can’t cash in your worthless souls By then we’ll probably be somewhere else Where the wheels keep turning Crushing the poorer and helping ourselves On and on until the universe is burning.

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Spice saves you from the cold Scrambling desperate for heat Hands out with head back twitching Begging at my feet In shop doors on the floor Never seen a higher street Zombies with good manners Trying to catch a nights sleep Sparking fires in cans inhaling dark Warming hands by freezing hearts In sight of prams out in the park Laying wasted on a landmark Their minds, bodies and money is all spent Nasty habits got them here Nothing for food, nothing for rent Nights spent on streets in constant fear Stumbling blind side into me Old tracksuits combating crisp cold Not searching for cheap silence or throwaway sympathy Not trying to fit a societal mould Like a dear in the headlights they stare So startled, so close to the ending A thinking mans ****** I’m the ignorant man stood, pretending That I can’t see you there Craving synthetic highs Because if it’s natural it’s not aloud Packaged up in labs and factories Down the supply chain to customers who sleep on cobbled ground

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Jan 25, 2018

Jan 25, 2018 at 9:06 PM UTC

Elis

Zombies With Manners

Spice saves you from the cold Scrambling desperate for heat Hands out with head back twitching Begging at my feet In shop doors on the floor Never seen a higher street Zombies with good manners Trying to catch a nights sleep Sparking fires in cans inhaling dark Warming hands by freezing hearts In sight of prams out in the park Laying wasted on a landmark Their minds, bodies and money is all spent Nasty habits got them here Nothing for food, nothing for rent Nights spent on streets in constant fear Stumbling blind side into me Old tracksuits combating crisp cold Not searching for cheap silence or throwaway sympathy Not trying to fit a societal mould Like a dear in the headlights they stare So startled, so close to the ending A thinking mans ****** I’m the ignorant man stood, pretending That I can’t see you there Craving synthetic highs Because if it’s natural it’s not aloud Packaged up in labs and factories Down the supply chain to customers who sleep on cobbled ground

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An honesty I cant concede I came to love, I left with scars My emotions tattooed on my sleeve A hole where once lived a heart The hole is gaping It cuts right through Yet lights can’t get by it Just darkness because of you Blood soaks the cold floor I can’t find my heart My heavy head is reeling, unsure If it was in my chest to start If you find it somewhere beating Just leave it there to stop No oxygen, no breathing I’m never waking up.

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Dec 28, 2017

Dec 28, 2017 at 10:18 PM UTC

Elis

Heartless

An honesty I cant concede I came to love, I left with scars My emotions tattooed on my sleeve A hole where once lived a heart The hole is gaping It cuts right through Yet lights can’t get by it Just darkness because of you Blood soaks the cold floor I can’t find my heart My heavy head is reeling, unsure If it was in my chest to start If you find it somewhere beating Just leave it there to stop No oxygen, no breathing I’m never waking up.

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Im a mile deep, still I'm shallow A black, bitter ocean My waves are hungry like the shadows Starved of light and all emotion I need solace to part the sea Show a frozen heart the path to care Or sink down and drown here with me In the depths of my despair A world upside down Below all of the air Devoid of needless sound Still hitting sharper than a snare Let the pressure overwhelm In time we all decay Let mother nature take the helm And sail our ship away Would you wade down in the murky brown? Down in this fishy deep No other life for miles around Davey Jones locker where we’ll sleep Scales and fins growing in my skin I want a pond to rot in.

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Dec 19, 2017

Dec 19, 2017 at 9:25 PM UTC

Elis

Pond Rot

Im a mile deep, still I'm shallow A black, bitter ocean My waves are hungry like the shadows Starved of light and all emotion I need solace to part the sea Show a frozen heart the path to care Or sink down and drown here with me In the depths of my despair A world upside down Below all of the air Devoid of needless sound Still hitting sharper than a snare Let the pressure overwhelm In time we all decay Let mother nature take the helm And sail our ship away Would you wade down in the murky brown? Down in this fishy deep No other life for miles around Davey Jones locker where we’ll sleep Scales and fins growing in my skin I want a pond to rot in.

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