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BarelyABard Nov 2012
We live, childlike, adjusted to the dark.

What we see does not challenge us, so we,

completely naive and blissful in it,

dare not to try and challenge the darkness.

Thus we continuously meander,

stumbling with our hands along the wall,

to make our way to the end of the road.

We feel the cracks and gaps beneath our feet.

Our hands run along the tattered remains.

Our blindness is a constant affliction.

My blindness is a constant affliction.

Our hallways and roads, narrow and cold,

cannot completely cross into another.

Only can our fingertips briefly touch

as they run along the bars of another.

Fire and water are mere memories,

a thought within a mind of the darkness.

No cannon fire, nor a wrecking ball,

can ever break the brick above our heads,

and the damp walls we run our hands across

to have our eyes sear with beautiful pain

as the sunlight erupts into our souls

and our eyes strain to adjust to the truth.

All that can cause your bricks to tumble down

is to realize that you create it,

and you can burn with all in the sunlight

as the veil of right and wrong, pain and joy,

rage and sadness, anxiety and peace,

and all your closed mind had once thought you learned

crashes and burns brightly all around you,

and you walk out of you and into life.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
Every eye gazing through bars

can never catch the weeping stars.

For magic cannot bring new birth

when they can never reach the earth.

And so the eyes will always stare,

without meaning and without care.

But stars will never cease their fight

until the void is filled with light.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
The smoke, it never clears.
Dear, don't worry about a thing.
The bombs are going off when I walk to class
and the bodies are piling up when I clock out for lunch.
I watched the fire rage in the pulpit
but the pastor is still praying
even though he feels the heat.
And the president is hanging his head
when trust me, he knows the truth...
I can't help but cry
but I feel as if that is just to hide the laughter.
We want to fall in love but we love to fall in spite
so we dress in pretty clothes and check our texts and tweets.
Grab your packs and make sure you have enough ammo.
For love of god, cleaning your ******* weapon
because we are all soldiers in some kind of war.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
I wake up and you are not there.
Hopefully I am still asleep.
But then I realize you left me
And I don't blame you in the slightest.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
The drops fall and we are nothing but the
soft splash and shock of sound
left over in the ears of
kings and beggars
before another drop catches the
sense of the slowly falling.

A drop will roll down the window of a skyscraper
towering
above the hustle and bustle of
broken dreams
and new promises.

A drop sinks into the pit of filth and slumbers with the dogs feeding off scraps in the gutter.

A drop lands in the eye of the man with the axe.

It falls on the mother
grasping
the child.

Everything melts into the sky to fall once again.

A cycle of death and rebirth.

Drop on the window,
you hold no more power than the mutts.

I wish to land in the ocean and sink to the bottom where the cycle can never mind me.

Launch me into the heavens where the stars can stare in wonder at the confusing being entering their world.

Let me fall into a vial and float away oh lord...

Is my hand against the sun all they cannot take away from me?

My eyes burn and blind but still I stare into your eyes with loving fury and tenacious acceptance.

Ride on against the current, you will not win and I hope this makes you fight harder

my

lovers, my brothers, and my others.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
I am in a group of people who are laughing and having fun.
I smile and grin along even though I am alone.
BarelyABard Nov 2012
I am ****** at the world for being so selfish.
I am ****** at all pretty girls who pass me by.
I am ****** at the rich folk who have more than I.
I am ****** at the arrogance,
****** AT THE IGNORANCE.
I am ****** at my teacher for making me fail.
I'm so very angry. I'm ****** as hell.
I am ****** at my band 'cause their new album *****.
I'm ****** at the manager because he didn't give me a chance.
But most of all I'm ****** 'cause I done ****** my pants.
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