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Poisoned touch
Death of the temple
With a venomous shot
All of our pain
Comes from our creations
We can rot for eternity
Or remove pieces
To hope for tranquility

Speaking with serenity
A frequency that my ears
Can never register
Am I deaf? Am I blind?
Deep inside, I think I'm fine
But I never was at all
I can hear your voice
It never calls to me
A world hungry for the lonely
Makes me distrust my ears and eyes
If everything can be refreshed
Then serenity dies once in a while
Reborn to suit a distorted purpose
In due time

A better world may come
But not from a worse world
You fight for the future
But your actions stay cold
Burning, sinking
Preventable but predictable
You live out of fear
Your path is paved with death
Unnatural lives
Succumbing to natural strife
A clock without time
A race with no finish line

A child speaks
With no hint of malice
A child acts
With no restrictions
A child plays
With no alertness
A child exists
With no care for position
Taken away with age
Most humane
Most disdained
Hated for their freedom
But if a child loses it all
Their greatest freedom is nonexistence

Buying into a future
Devoid of existence
Setting up for old age
Where you will never make it
Dying in the present
To live in the future
Looking back to find
Pain, pressure, *******
Now, all that you remember
Slips away
Cashed in years ago
For a decaying pleasure

Calm at the core
Vibrations at the shell
Impatience has a purpose
Patience is a virtue
But it rewards the long-term
For those with no privilege
They will chase the immediate
Ardent and foolish
One will receive
One will delay
Which is the right choice?
Is it the one still here today?

The good go early
Staying and leaving
The evil stays around
Poisoning the trees
Our roots remain
But our reason is remade
All of them, gone
Why do I stay?