All of my friends
Betrayed to rusted machines
Filled with corks
Screws
Lugnuts and bolts
Tragedy struck like lightning
Noose is ever-tightening
Piece of machine
Lies within my frame
Not willing
Since it was not in my billing
Above the pay grade
That an F could afford
Lost to machines
We created and now cause us to decay
I knew that I would die
But not as a ***
With no march, absence of a marching drum
Beat my flesh and bone
Weather me like a storm
Rain poured on my face
Pushed aside
Thrown to the curb
Hurts to be the one?
Shift your feet at once now
Carry on!

Such renewable resources
Plenty to share
Amongst all
Yet what shall become
Of our broken husks
When the source of renewal
Runs dry...
How long until we die?
Should I start packing my stuff?
Cut my losses
Even if I know
The loss has ended alongside the sun.

System remains unchanged
Cracks still the same
Paved with new foundation
...
Around the cracks.

Hard times
Put your life in perspective
Check out the specs
Never earned your respect
What else did I expect?

The destruction that you can't predict
Times that make us sick
No time
For cleaning up the "ick"
One quick clean
Every day of the week
Protect the meek
Sickness attacks them
Happens forevermore

Maybe there's something
In disguise
Blessings don't come cheap
Devilry is inexpensive
Easier to stab another
Then to comfort a brother

Good things
Seem bad at first
What if all good things
Come with their own curse?

So you'd like to leave?
Just sign here
It's a formality
To reduce abnormality
The difference is easy to facilitate
When bound by words on a page
Wait, you want to stop?
Just sign here
You can't avoid the paper
Just sign here
For this will be your life
Deep inside you know
This to be the rhythm of modern life
You'd like to prevent it from taking over?
Well, guess what...
You can!
All you need to do...
...is just sign here.

Fought for the flag
I pray to every day
Now this country
Has gone "funny"
Protected us from the prey
Served my purpose
Time to be thrown away
Sidelines grow closer
I am forgotten, what a drag.

Wake up
Get out of your chamber
That makes you lamer
Cook mediocre breakfast
[Burnt]
Like every time
Get in the shower
Clean every inch
[You burnt the toast]
Brush the bones
Out of your skin
Pain that's akin
To a lengthy equation
[Can't believe it]
Get on the bus
Travel down the lane
Toward work met with disdain
[You burnt it like always]
I burnt it
Down to embers
Maybe home is where I'll go
This isn't my stop
[Your collar's out of line]
[You'll soon run out of time]
[Already half-way]
[Down the throne]
The bed is where I belong
[Sorry boss, I'm ill]
Work will be done
Just without me.

Descended deep
Into a sleeping realm
Couldn't be believed
Unless in a film
The world bounced
Like the castle
At a 7-year-old's party
Giddy and pure
Yet when I leaped
Toward the clouds
The ground burst like a balloon
Descended like a fallen angel
What happened to those days?
When did the giddiness...
...get snuffed out like a torch?

I wish I understood
Such a concept
But it's not my deal
Interrupted by feel
No matter the angle
Pray for an angel
Never shall descend
For a meager scenario
Yet to me...
It defines who I'll be.

To feel safe
To feel wanted
To feel alive
To feel like I'm flying
Away
From pain and decay
Nothing else to say
This is why we play
Our role out
In a group
Dedicated
To a false god
Promising love and peace
To the world, forever far.

Uh oh...
Something went wrong
That tends to happen
When writing a love song.

Frantically sprinting
Down a corridor of twilight
Dead end reached
Grabbed violently
Spun around 180
A figure with a twisted spine
The shape of an S
Mouth unhinged
From out of it came
A static voice:
Once I make a fist
Some life will be dismissed
11 inch long fingers
Bundled together
Like a dead spider's limbs
Awoke I sat up in my bed
Upon my nightstand
Light emerging
The phone is ringing...

Every piece
I find of you
Draws me closer to your essence
Cannot cope with your absence
Blue is my color
For every piece, I come across
The more your presence overcomes
Parameters of my heart
I'll shatter them and join up with you
Leave everything behind
While time cannot rewind
Today it shall be streamlined
For every waking hour
Spent in decay
Miss the one who always
Guided me down pathways
May have been the mosquito
That made you dread tomorrow
Yet you cured my vertigo
As my personal quest
Call me obsessed...
...but I must cure the repressed

May be hard
To be torn apart
From broken land
Such is the tides of sand
Take the heart, turn to a martial art
No longer in this plane...
Through a story which I can't explain
Yet I shall sustain
Subdue overthinking inside me
Gone to the black sea
Much like memories
Which die every hour
But...
A scrapbook binds me to the soil
Good times
All-around
For you, I'll make 100 and more

In a world full of noise
The only sound that retains my attention
Is your voice.
Removes all the tension
Once there was silence
In a darkened hole
Secretaries that go for strolls
Tired of the paper
Driven to violence
National caper
But
Everything is alright
Just fine
For I cast the line
Into the deep blue, reflecting the sunlight
Not what I envisioned, a storyline
No more need for a hotline
Chipped at life, I've found the goldmine
Everything will be fine
You were the sign.

Dropped a candy
Round as a bra cup
Brightly labeled with a "T"
Striped
Blue and white
Wonder what it could mean
Fast forward
Two years
Look back
Down into the crevice
Abandoned land
Did it move?
...
What was that noise...?
It's about time
The ingredients were revealed

Staring at trees
Shaking and sway
Only entertained
For I can't look away
Longing for days
When I had more patience
A little bit of bravery
Confidence, even just a speck
Today I will leave
Understand the danger
Of running into strangers
Exhale of the lungs
Tomorrow the funeral
What is the world trying to tell me?
Our time has expired?
Humanity will be retired?
Don't want to sleep when I'm not even tired
Let me leave when I've become
What I've aspired.

Debris on the shore
They said everyone was poor
In faith
Fortune
Now fate crumbled our luck
Bunch of shmucks
Running amuck
"When will help come?"
"Who will save us?"
The ones in their tower
Debating on how to solve a problem
That kills people by the hour
Come sit and cower
What the fathers wanted...
Balance of power
Hurting us more than needed.

Standards everchanging
Academics
Beauty
Health
In relation to the nation
Never maintaining
Forever a remix
Procralimed by a snooty
Individual
Flowing with wealth
Bankrupt in understanding
If everyone began to harm
We'd idolize it as a norm
No matter the charm
It'd be a uniform thunderstorm

Untouched
Pure of human touch
Now time will tell
When we deem it to be "too much"
Burn it down...
While giving a momentary farewell...
Oh well.
Let's go, boss wants 20 more of these
Down to the ground

Nobel pieces
First place slot
Hard workers deserve those
Or so I thought
How long have I been faking?
Movie always in the making
Center stage
Should I gauge success?
Never truly felt impressed
All on the shelf, trophies of trophies
At the cost of a fee...

Proud to come this far
Scrounged through the muck and tar
Now at the very top...
Yet the abuse never stops
Superior to who?
I just wanted to be a hero to you.

If my vocal cords
Can't produce a sound
To save the joy you've drowned
Unfortunate
Cannot save you
Why even continue?
Hand back my time, detinue
Or as I lay down
Gazing up at your frown
You're not just a noun
Remove the ****** gown
No longer in that town...
Hidden away in the brown
Freed from a breakdown
Prevented a meltdown
Like a flame eclipsed by a wave
Spirits never caved
The soul I had to save...
...no longer a slave
In the deepest blue
Try to shake off the residue.

I pray for an answer
Life is a multiple choice question
With no pre-written hints
So how will anyone find out...
...how to excel at it?

Blackest night
Absence of light
Line of light passes through the cracks
Take a glimpse
Too much for me
No one else it could be
Except for the daily check-in
Everything around my head
Pictures of static
For my emotion
Locked in the attic
Cannot analyze
The heart behind it all
Darkness is merely the absence of light
Yet deep inside resides plenty of strife
Asking me to survive
For what?
The faucet no longer pours
Only drips until it's sealed
Thankfully the mirror
Too dark to see
The scars within my iris
A large chamber for liquid
In a minute
It could be my new home
Come visit my catacomb
Found the cure to my syndrome.

Oh, so we're playing a game?
My anger exceeds
A game of Monopoly
Go Fish for another
Don't call me your brother
I've connected the lines
One, two, three
Connected four
Resist the urge to label you a *****
For neither was the Mastermind
Tripping down a candy lane
Candy Land is one you're always in
Questioning me daily
Where did you go?
Who were you with?
How are you so late?
Didn't know I brought home Trivial Pursuit
Category is paranoia
Oh look! I've found you.
Back in the day
Once thought you were cute
But all things are
Until they get in your car
Game of Scrabble
Nothing makes sense
Took a Risk
Now this is my Life
Devoid of a Clue
Can't see how I'll pull through
Perhaps my exit is long overdue
Crumbling down
Dominoes
The problem we can't just skip
Get ready
Tonight we play Battleship.

What's rage?
Rampage on a stage
Called the world
Never really known, constantly unfurled
CLOSE THEIR EYES
IT BURNS THROUGH YOUR DISGUISE
BUT TO THEIR SURPRISE
THEY'RE THE REASON YOU SERIALIZE
Step back.
No time to crack
Daily times, it may rise
Commonplace human demise
Guide your struggles, create not destroy

What's joy?
Something earned playing with toys?
Gathering a solid grade
For academics is your trade
All of these gaps
Happiness is a time-lapse
Everyone digs for its remaining wraps
Can't think of a time where it didn't collapse...
But that's alright.
It is no blight
Merely a runaway
For in due time, we'll meet halfway
It never remains, so why should we feel betrayed?

Stuck up like a tree
Fall down as burnt lumber
When someone reaches final slumber
It'll be represented by a number.

Why must I feel
Like an alien on a distant planet
One and the same
To you.
To me, the difference is night and day
Rise up for the morning
As I weep for twilight.

Humanity has lost its humanity

Peel back the flesh
Smash through the bones
Of enemies misunderstood
Merely
Piece of firewood
Tossed to the pile
Sicker than bile
Such a juvenile...
How did this come together?
No questions asked
Do what
I thought was good
Now it's not
Reduced to an ocelot
Cater
Toward the mass extinction
So many more
Go off to die
Mementos
Turn to memories
Remove this career
From around my neck
Diplomats reveal flaws...
...yet I extinguish them
But are these flaws
To the universe?

Where does it lie?
The answer
How does anyone...
...save the world from the end?

My name is the one
That raises you from
Sleep
Sorrow
Resurrects the past
With a blast
For missing me
Such an unsightly task
Ask for to bask
In glory
You need to
Forget my name.

IQ grows
The more seeds I sow
Thoughts in tow
Why can't I take it slow?

Surround the self with sound
For the mixture of voices
Breeds achievement

Unknown circumstances
Chill you to the core
Bones quiver
Tremors take over
Look for hope, a sliver
A good luck charm
Such is a four-leaf clover
For I'll say this once
After broken days
Called a cataclysmic blaze
Learn right here and now
Some things don't always want
To hurt you
Please don't fly away
Not a cockatoo
Your faith will renew
As dusk turns to dawn
Witness this sustaining phenomenon!

When I was a child
I loved you
When I was a teenager
I ignored you
When I was an uncertain adult
I forgot you
Now that I am on the edge
Close to my expiration date
There's no one else in the room
To alleviate the gloom
So, I must admit
At the beginning I loved
But now...
I miss you.

I am me!
Not a part of someone else!
I am me!
Swear on my consciousness...
I am alive
I have to be
Please...
Say I'm who I think I am

Villains
"They grew up to be one"
Such a hypothesis
Screamed from an apothesis
Much like a hero
Change the world
"Yet they save zero!"
Not necessarily
Indistinguishable from each other
Talent
Daring
Caring
Galant
Were once like you
Until the world said:
"No more."
Took away the drive
Not even twenty-five
But all is not encased
In a granite timeline
Everything will be fine
After the trials they faced
Realization flowed through
The tears once shed
Drove them to manifest
Anger's embrace
Villains, I decree
Merely heroes in evolution
So is it safe to say...
We are all one?

High-spirits
Crash down like a wave
Day to day
Overtakes us all
2 AM
Late night thoughts
Dedicated to forgotten exams
How the world will be programmed
Paranoia has a hold
Seeped into the mold
Society
Yet do we really care about it?
Not right now
Sealed close by
Pushing forward is hard to try
But would we rather die?
I didn't think so.
If we all had the charm
A heart that could do no harm
Soul bursting with love
It'd be humanity's dove
That is who you are

"This is who I am"
"No doubt about that"
Which mask is that?
Do you buy it in bulk?
Your real self hangs on a thread
Yes, a brain is in possession
It lies in the seabed.
Drowned underneath a facade
Vita is false
Ita what a charade it is!
Proficient in Latin
I jest, I could be from Manhatten
Corner of Houston Street
Around the bend
See how easy it is to cheat?
Reheat your claims
In a busted microcosm
For every face varies
At different angles
Yet I can't recall
It coming in tangles
Backed up against the wall
Today marks your fall
Of one face.
Oh, I know there's a plethora
But as it is spoken in the Torah
Once a liar speaks
Their words fall on deaf ears.

Is your new height embedded into the pavement?
Let's jump back in
Never had a childhood like your own
If you were sitting on a throne
Mine's a gravestone
Etched in with disdain
Within my lane
Iron-forged chains
Pieces of the heart to regain
Hidden in the dark
Recoiling upon a midnight bark
From a puppy lost--
At least the owner says so
Reality says it got tossed
How can I be nostalgic?
Walking away from those days
Antalgic gait
Be aware of your worst step
Wary of a misstep
Watch out for the edge
Solutions don't come from the ledge
Leap off if it's your passion
Yet the child inside
Within the beat chamber
Could be the hope you were looking to provide
I mean not to offend
But here's a branch I overextend
How will you ascend
If you write your own end?
You may be tortured
Goodbye for now
Do you like reaching the height of an orchard?
Undergrowth is stunting your growth.

Legacy
Such an underused word
Today it shall become no longer absurd
Remembrance
Throughout all the seasons
How will we be remembered?
First, you need to find a reason  
Etched into history
With a motive in mind
Give in to passivity?
Only if you want to remain blind.
For the mastermind of humankind--
Whoever they shall be
Doesn't accept wannabees
Killing bumblebees
Out of necessity
So just for the fallen
Pull out the textbook
Flip to the page often overlooked
For today...
Downplay your getaway.

Once again, here we go
Back to the writer's room
Talking all about
What removes the gloom
Existential dread from the
Hippocampus
Dampen us
For no matter the source of the world
All things change
If you think not you're classified deranged
Yet some stays the same
Who is to blame?
I don't know, no need to shame yourself
For things out of control
Beyond the hands
We didn't create the land
Molded it fine
Grew crops to dine
Now everything changed on a dime
Except for what's inside:
Positive and negative energy
A joint duo held by lethargy
Familiar?
I don't blame you
Such is the way you were groomed
Born to consume
Ask yourself:
If it just hides away the pain
Should it be resumed?

Showing off what my mind
Recalls with swift
Memory is thrown into hyperactivity
Is it all significant
Or rambling on a wall?
Insanity unspoken

Born in
No mistake
Today
The start
Of opportunity
Alongside
Mistake
Oh mama, please understand
Everyone isn't perfect
Stop pretending you're not the same
Downright deranged
Oh mama, who do you love?

Even when hands start to loosen
Grip on reality
Starts to slip
Look back
Moments when everything
Was in your control...
Wait
Is that even possible?

Don't want to move forward
Where else can I go?

Stuck at home
Or is it one?
What constitutes a home?
A place you miss
Once you leave its view?
How about a goal
Longingly pursued?
Safehaven praised
After hectic days?
If Earth is our home
Why aren't we satisfied?
Moving around
From birth till we die
Existential coast of moving
Forward without looking back
Downright attack
A place to develop?
Where you go when your eyes swell up?
Hard to find
When the mind is enveloped
True home is in the heart
How can you say that for certain?
Do you know your heart?
Does anyone know anything?
Sitting around waiting for offspring
Good thing all these thoughts
Conclude in the spring.