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."

Up
On a hill so high
I'd touch the heavens
If my soul could qualify

My mind is broke
To me
Everything is a joke
Must be why I never get along with folk
Laugh
Get back to the studio
Along with the staff
There's no show
Once you forego the status quo
Today we have fun
Until there is none.

Why must I be so downdraught?
Is it the ash in my hair?
Malevolent people?
Ego bigger than a steeple
Calling me sheeple?
Can only be a sheep with a shepherd
The only one we have is predatory:
Leopard
If life is soon to be a myth
Will we be regarded as legends?
Or just a speck in the universes' blessings?
Cosmic blink
From the eye of the divine
Since I was nine
I knew my existence could never be defined.

Enjoy life today
No more ranting, for minutes or months
To conformity

Swingset, so rustic
No one plays with you, sorry
When is it my time?

Cave of abundance
I brought a radio, here is the song
Repeats, endlessly

Ignorant bliss, or
Knowledgeable and suffer
Two ends, no middle

Once the sky fades
Accompanied by burning
Play our downfall song

Lesson for today:
"Think for yourself kids" is both
A truth and warning

Grey clouds dangle over
Heaven obscured from our sight
Hell, forever still

They will descend soon
Unfortunately, none live
Vanquished, betrayed

Process
To cure the hate
Cull violent endeavors
Shifting the cycle
Into a recycle bin
For when violence comes
We seem to purge the violent with violence
Unto us:
The new cycle is fully realized
Yet...
It is the same but disguised.

Dropped down to the floor
Excavated my valor
Glamour? Behind time.

Losing, lethargy
Got a problem, inertia
State of mind, stasis

Supernova came
Never limited darkness
To blazing spotlight

Oh, I see clearly now
A new type of pride:
Family
Flawed as they may be
It only brings them closer to me

Lost
Within the cracks
Kicked to the outskirts
Interest, only in seconds
Days, weeks, months
Then all at once
It dies like a passing trend
Youth and goof
It takes no sleuth to determine the facts
Forgotten and presumed
Awake and alive...
Nevermore

Beautiful carnage is anomalous
Yet, we all live in it
Day by day

Feeling lovesick
Good thing I'm back home
Time to atone

Proud to be where I'm from
But home is in front of me
Not of me
Separate from the serpent
Capital Hill
Need a capital offense to live
Walking up hills
Just to take spills

Upon a first glance
Put into a trance, decide
What tag goes outside

Endless vista
Faces suddenly staring
At silhouettes
Leaping from columns of smolder
Why?
An explosion...
Of realization, folks.

Perfection, standard
Criteria varies with all
No definition

Self-evident truths
Life, liberty, together
All for one, none else

From our origin
To alpha and omega
Peace remains stranded

Leaves twirling about
Changing face as seasons pass
Us, identical

School bell's siren call
Here they yell, teacher's care
So why can't you?

All I'd love is some time
To get out of my mind
Denied, every time
Some days it's hard to realize
That the fault is mine
But on an island
You can't signal for help
S.O.S
Stands for Stay Out Saviors
Pray to fix my behavior
If only it didn't go to the bin
Heard, noted
No time to waste
On such a disgrace
Carried here by time and space
Outpaced in every field
Math
Science
English
I get by
But never seized it
Grasping at concepts outdated and complex
Deep in the complex, no help for me
Too stubborn to ask
Well then, how did I pass?
For once
Let's see if I can stand at my apex
No need for respect
Fly from me, I'll stay buried in the projects.