Look out for demise
Someone may bother with yours
Willing to risk it?

Castle walls crumble
Revealing treasure daily
Universal fact

Missing the point
Must be trained by a stormtrooper
The goal is to unify
But you can't
When you're too focused on the "I"

Give up so much
Just to ask for more
Funny.
How would it feel for your heart
To be on the floor?
Open for all like a broken door
Revolving around every issue
To avoid driving away
Someone
Who I loved.
Did I ever love?
What does it mean?
Where was the dopamine?

Taxes
Deadlines
Evictions
Payments to meet
Grocery store exclusive meat
Up to ten dollars
Wish I could eat for free
Like the birds
In the park
Deer
In the backyard
Bats
In the darkness
If only their life was easy too
Gotta think about living
By that, I mean surviving
Protecting family with your biology
No fancy tools used to get to the same end:
Death.
Was it always like this?
Crying over the thought of tomorrow?
May be mature, but I thought it was a gift
The more I'm aware
The more I wish that my mind was bare.

Why waste time?
Hoping for better years
Oh, please
Issues remain the same
Beasts can never be tamed
Too long
Steeped in disappointment
So it's time to just accept:
Pain can't be fixed on the clock, appointment.

Clarity
I'd like my daily dose
Yet when my lens is clear
Something comes along
Dirt
Scratches
Mucked up perspective
How long can I keep it clean?

No more order
No more justice
No more structure
All that remains:
Pure chaos
Actions went unnoticed
Doubt placed in those considered "cornerstones"
Such is the new way of living.

What was once yours
Now mine
Not to own
But to heal
Watch as the future crumbles
For our shoulders can only hold so much weight
Until they snap

Become rich
Not in currency
But in knowledge and understanding
So others can invest in your legacy

Fools craft constant rage
Sensibles temper the fires of wrath

They painted you in their colors!
Attached strings to your frame
Call you a master, yet..
Behind this facade
Resides the masters in the shadows

Running over to an island
For a sense of self
Jump off from your highland
She ran away from herself
You lustful lightweight...
...would you like the same fate?

Lies dormant
Never truly ran away
Always here to stay
Inside a heart
Cardiovascular home
Only goal?
To control mankind through the mind.

Working toward perfection
Puts more tears in your collection
Such a disconnection
Disaffection on all fronts
No intersection of the heart and mind
Search for some redirection
How can you accomplish something with no concrete definition?

"Life has no meaning"
"That's just the truth"
I apologize for intervening
I am no sleuth but
Doesn't that mean you can do anything you want to?

Plastic smiles
Surrounding me
Around the world for miles
Falsified liar's glee
You can show off your teeth
But beneath your eyes
I've found what's underneath.

The world
We always strive
To unfurl the confusion
Making it a better place, one where we all thrive
Becoming compassionate survivors
Here's the first step:
Did you say thanks to your bus driver?

We comprehend you're here to assist
But the risk
Foreign boy on familiar land
Such a combo doesn't bode well
Your presence does not outweigh the value of our lives
Apologizes
Hear us well:
Leave before the hounds sniff you out
Unless you'd prefer
A body left in a blood drought.

Change utilizes time
That's why patience is labelled a virtue
Temporarily sublime
Needed high on a mountain to climb
Temper your temper-
Proceed without caution and growth will prevail
Extempore!

Garner info with questions
But all they hand you is suggestions
Doesn't take a sleuth to figure out the truth
What was once bad?
Remains.
All the pain?
Stays.
Love on display?
Faker than a cabaret.

Nothing stays the same
Even when it's meant to last
If the opposite is what you proclaim
Look inside at the change you have amassed

Mind made out of the horizon
Both sides harmonize
Always agree to decide
Act like a bipartisan
Yet the fact engraved into my cries:
I'm a falsified artisan
Torn up on both sides!

Once we say hello
Time shall progress
Until one of us
Falls down below
For the flow moves so slow
From a memory
To
a
tableau

Being humane equates to permanent pain.

Swarmed with anticipation
Hidden
Away from prying eyes
Turn around
Here comes reality

Huh?
Why is everything so strange?
No need for a fuss
Just the way life drifts on by
Grasped around my neck
"Discipline your mind."

How far can I go
On the dreams of others?
Which do I own?
Should I say hello
If every day ends with
Goodbye?

7 + 2= 9
12 x 12= 144
2xy - xy= 2

Will I be a light?
To drive away the fright?
How coarse is the sand?
Will I ever learn
How to soar away?

One day
One month
One year
Time flew by.

How do I grow?
Will I be a mold?
Are you okay alone
Mom and dad?

Will you be sad
When I have to go?

Spend more time
Listening to a water stream
Not the human screams
Taken to extremes
Getting worked up in our prime
Over some "precious" dreams
For these visions
Never mattered
Unless they make a dime
Focus on what is going away
Never to return
Such is the method that I deem

If we move forward
To create a better world
Is it worth the pain?
When it will be gone at the end...?
Evil cannot exist without good
The inverse property applies.

Look before you leap
Into arms that deceive.

When does the quo return?
When will the screams cease?
When can humanity be revived?
When will we no longer be trapped inside?
When will these walls fade away?
When shall the restraints be put to rest?
When do we know it is safe?
When will the fog dissipate?
When will we know our fate...?

What is the point?
What can be saved?
What separates a goal?
What about a delusion?
What do we gain from idolizing material?
What future sins will we accept?
What is our calling?
What can we avoid from the past?
What things should be forgotten?

Who is an expert?
Who says that we shouldn't speak?
Who are you?
Who am I?
Who amongst us all is dead inside?
Who will bring peace?
Who can prevent our fall?
Who will help us all stand tall?
Who is our master?
Who is the chain?

Why must the best of us suffer most of all?
Why is our success measured in height?
Why does division exist if we promote to not divide?
Why have we moved forward? Why have we moved backward?
Why has injustice come out now?
Why must the past be repeated?
Why are we on a diverse planet?
Why are we here?

Formulaic
Fit the mold with some cutout jokes
Replaceable
Disgraceful process
As a person
I must confess
Let me explain:
Such comedy found in humorous things
Yet all concepts can be considered
Funny to one
Something else to others
Perhaps hateful
Distasteful
Force a laugh?
Means it was never funny
To none
But executive mindsets
For success in such uncertainty
Variety is the prerogative.

Behind your tooth
Home to the truth
Spit out poison--
No matter if what you say is true

I clenched my hand
Warm as the sun
Shook yours
Cold as snow
Together we may make neutrality
But the fight that shall come
With the construction of the foundation
Drives me away
For your disturbed insides
Push me back a ways

Couch
Stained with an unknown substance
A television
Channels, all the same
To static
At least that is distinct
Future?
Never put much thought to it
Windows barricaded
Outside sources breed panic
Internet
A place to hide
Safety net soon to be snipped
Yet these images...
The same
Videos...
Looped for hours
Music...
Playlist of repetition
Today is the worst
And tomorrow...
...will be the same

Empathy
In an apathetic world
Covered up with a shirt
Stitched together with pandemonium

One day
The automatic doors
Recognize my presence
Shifting apart
Like the gates of heaven
Except if heaven
Sold two-dollar hotdogs
Along with one dollar pretzels
Grabbed the usual:
Jerkey
Chips
Soda
Nothing else to it
I felt like being a little crazy
So I grabbed a chocolate bar too
Such an adventurer.
To my surprise behind the counter
An older gentleman
Whistled away
As if there was joy in such a place
One by one
Totaled up the items
Then it slipped out:
"I gotta say, sir, why do you still work here?"
Did I offend?
I pray not
For the rage of an old man
Cannot be tempered
He gave a chuckle
Put down the bar and said
"Well, I'm not dead yet...
...might as well go out, meet some new friends."

Waiting for a train
That will never come
Left the station
Disregarded the nation
Chance to fight
For peace
Safety
Sanctuary
Denied.
By the one thing to deliver me
Into corruption
Soon to be snuffed out
By me.
Others may not agree
Yet this is how it shall be
Eliminate all
For their empire to fall.

Like a storm that you can't predict
Nature of the trick
So unusual
No longer useable
In the remnants of reality
Use it wisely, just like all things
A weapon or a solution?
Up to what your consciousness dictates.

We never evolved.

Oh by God
I miss her
She's not gone far
Not yet hopped in death's car
Yet me heart drifts on wishin'
For a day with no time to end
No need to look at the hours
When you're all that
I
have
got.

Torn apart
Poison digested ages ago
Comes back with a vengeance
Firm conditions  
While I've been in this...
Meadow of permanent darkness
The stars shine bright
As a means to taunt me
Freedom
You hold the secret
***** of light
That die like all things
But once the pain is inflicted
Onto my vessel
Vestal in dreams
Defiled in reality
White tinted beam
Free me from this degree
Rebuild my spark
With rock and a shock.

Such a parasite
Sight for tired eyes
Created by our race
Enslaved each of us
Such irony
Common as debauchery
Solemnly swear
To eliminate such philosophical ******
Greenback
Portrait on the front
Exchange it daily
Hardships removed...
...replaced with more strife.

Professionals
Hand out mere suggestions
Backed by years of
Study
Dedication
Long nights
Fright
Flaws
Wait...
They're human too?!

Feasibility
Brings out passivity
Passed the threshold of care
Hold on to this thought
For it's all that we got.

Redwater
Unknown origin
Plentiful
Yet I cannot make heads or tails
As to one fact beyond logical boundary...
Why is it in the underground?
Amongst the liquid form
An object
Collides into my grey untied shoes
A party mask
The fancy name alludes me
Is this item meant to delude?
Or illustrate a solemn truth...

Maybe somethings have no value...
...or maybe it's hidden?