He was a fine child
But, no longer
He killed and hid the ruler
And asked God
"Are you with me? Or am I a fool on the mountaintop?"
The wind howled
But provided no answers.

In the beginning
Darkness hovered over the waters
There was light
Good and separated from the darkness
Signs, to mark days and years
It was good
Mankind, sullied it all

The man who knew everything
Would not make it known
For if he knew all things
He would prefer to die, alone

Utopia
A fool's future
The day we ask for one
Becomes the day of our downfall

Societal evolution
Should simplify scenarios
Yet in our modern times
Which rapidly change
Things only got convoluted

The one who has no love
Lives without a future

Flawed leaders govern flawlessly
Flawless leaders lie to themselves
So, why wouldn't they lie to you too?

A son of the sun
Never knew how to have fun
The only thing he ever did under the sun?
Run.
Away from what?
Circumstances in which he was living
Cat and mouse game, incredibly driven
By a desire to be happy
No matter if it meant
An absence of ambrosia

Reflections change perception
Make those weak, vulnerable to deception
From the moment of its inception:
Do we truly know who we are?

Tick
Tock
Click of a clock
Every time the pendulum swings
We lose cherished things

We live in a time
Of impossible expectations
That require immediate solutions
Maybe that's why
We're all mad, down here

At the root of every conflict:
Two scared people
Who both beg
For a solution to come

Wake up one day
Soon enough I’ll say:
I want to go back
Back to the days
Where everything was a marvel-
Not a “Marvel”
Want to go back
To an era of experimentation
For the whole nation
Dusting off the spiders
On the world wide web
Took the person out of personality
Broadcast yourself
Now?
Broadcast your persona

Fading stars
Never go far
Black like tar
Only got enough to buy a beat-up car
[Switch up the beat]
Defeat is no feat
But to you-
Him
Her
And me
We all have our time
In fame
Success
All things that just bring us stress
End it on a good note:
Let’s just hope
That the gates are heavenly
Divine levity
I’m no church boy
So wherever I’ll go-
Enjoy the show

Peace and serenity
Forever a dream
With no behind-the-scenes
Making of a fake screen
Turning me green
At least the frogs know
When it's time to croak
Serenity
is
Obscenity

Copperhead
More crooked than a cop
Bloodlust that just wont stop
***** like a teenager’s laptop
Can’t drop the violence
Screams snuffed by the raindrops
Humanity as the backdrop
Year of perfect vision
Growing further apart, division
Never thought I'd use this again:
Embodiment of nuclear fission

Philosophy is antiquity
But much like the past
We must remember it well.

Broken systems
Yield broken results

A storm
That is what sorrow is
Momentary sadness
That too will pass
A pestilence
That is what depression is
A permanent purgatory
That will stay
But this too shall pass
Both depend
On acknowledging it exists

Used for temporary results
And permanent trauma

Two sides
Seeking a way
To save themselves
In a world
With borrowed time

Change takes time
That's why patience is a virtue
One without the other
Yin without yang
Good with no evil
One must exist
For there is nothing
Until there is something

Truly
We have always been equal
Labels, rewards, titles
These are what drive us apart

Not shy
Just know
When words are required
And when action is necessary

If we were born
To exist in this world
Why are we not comfortable?
Constantly escaping
Into fabricated fantasies

Learn to survive
Discover how to live

Nothing stays the same
Even when it’s made to last
But, it's part of life
So it will be okay.

Water
Falling down
Not from above
But from these two voids

CEO?
"Not a real job"
Manual labor?
"Go get educated"
Stuck between two boulders
With no strength to lift both

Looks can be deceiving
Bias changes how we perceive
Wise fools trust it anyway
Constantly naive

Infinite
Eternal
One lives forever
The other is known forever

Look for the humble
The greedy had enough time
In the limelight
About time we changed the spotlight.

When I was growing
Shoot, I still am
Everything was a classic
Learning in class, or as I called it
The resting hour
Spent my days inside
Not with the others
Mothers with their sons
Taking advantage of the sun
Afraid?
I was.
Still am, yet not sure why
Sixth sense?
Chemical mishap to restrain my membranes?
Maybe, maybe...
Spent more time as Shaggy
But with my daily frown
Should've called me Charlie Brown.

We pull down statues
For we know that
Soon, there will be no one left
To gaze upon them

We are not unhappy
Just constantly disappointed

I have no mouth
And I must scream
I have no eyes
And I must see
I have no ears
And I must listen
I have no blood
And I must live
For objects possess
No awareness.

When you make excuses
Sloth is all it introduces

Cold home
Such a northern chill
But across the tri-state
Need an N.W.O
In the U.S.A
Cannibalistic
Separated mentally
Bound physically
Insatiable
To the end of our life
Immune to strife
Modern-day living that needs no wife
Feasting on skin
Replaced by sin-
When did we become wendigos?

I can't find hate in my heart
For those who pursue crime
"Such a taboo"
Not when it's the only thing you can do
I mean, if we were all:
Forgotten
Troubled
Juvenile
Downright suicidal
Hopeless
Speechless
Broken
Ruined by a system
Misused and abused
Constantly confused by being used
Not excused
From a situation you never fused-
Yet, you are devoted
Longing for another
Someone to call a brother
Who looks out for you and doesn't smother
In this mad world...
Wouldn't you?

We can make the world
Or break it further
Emptying our rage and worry
Onto a rock
Drifting through space
We can change the world
Then I see:
Decay
Trash, up to the knees
Paper bags flowing in a breeze
No more do I think
We can make the world
Instead
We can take away the world.

Time goes onward
Things may change
But the root of all problems
Stays the same

Be afraid
Of the man
Who has lost everything
For when you lose something
His sympathy will turn to battle malice
Alice fell down the hole
But, he embraced it
And lost self-control.

How much inspiration-
In a desolate world
Has been given out
By corporate masses?

Picked up the phone
Just to call you
...
Why?
Even a lock has transparency.

Easy as pie?
Harder than fudge.
Difficult to come by:
A judge with no grudge

Struck down by time
Perfunctory
We all chase the days away
While begging for more

Tears
In your eyes
I'm not a bad man
I can only be
Just a man
Broken, but moving forward

Onto a beam of light; I collided
Large impact
Devoid of pain?
Interesting.
Like the flash of lightning
A being stood before me
Hunched over
With tired eyes
Highlighted by malice
Familiar, yet otherwordly
As if it were a busy subway tram--
The Lighter barreled toward me
With one hand
I grabbed it
It wanted to dance
Soon, I grew bored
The rhythm of the Lighter
Took it off, toward the edge
The Lighter had fallen.

Falling
Into the depths
A pitch-black void
Covered in a thin veil of static
Noiseless
Yet defeating in silence
In the distance-
Silhouettes
Falling as I am...
...where am I?

"𝘠-𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮?"
Fire
Otherworldly torment
Animal violence
Skirmishes of death
"No, they did it of their own accord."