You never have to run away
So I will not either

A theme park that entertains
Cure all of the negativity
Finally
Mirage no longer
Real
Abandon doubt
Throw out fear
For now...
We'll be entertained
For now...?
Not forever?
Right...
Sensing a theme
The park has a half-life
Like you and I

I gave you everything I had
Instead
He gave you what you wanted
Who's the real winner?

Not leaving
Just searching
For a purpose

Why must good people suffer?
No matter your morality
Mortality hunts us all
From the moment of inception
Suffering
Crept into existence

One-sided love
Lust?
Desire?
Not too dissimilar

Enlighten me
How much is our humanity?
May not matter
Advent of science
Renaissance directed at culture
Better than past trends
Born amongst ruin
Unenlightened actions
Near a church-born saint
Love found up above
With no answer
Once again
Forgotten by the stars
Throw out of the night sky
Labeled as inferior
When in their time
It was their standard
Incomparable
Ideals never present
What was once the truth
Mere opinion
Pure hypothesis
Drawn together
By what gives us comfort

Where do I begin?
Complex to the matter
Wrap the hands of many
Silk embrace
Don't know where
Nor why
All we ever know
Is the "when"
Yet nothing to admit
Toward positive endings
Drown in our mentality
Pull the plug
What is there
Left to take out?
No low-hanging fruit
Too simple
Change the mold
Not frugal
Demonize the danger
Black and white
Subjective perspective
Never existed
It won't prevent
Us from looking through it.

Only a few have gone by
Today some more
Yet you're acting
Manic
Like the whole world
Crumbles by the hour
Watch the coverage
It'll bring you pain
No stock in relief
Come back again
Relief will come
When others decide so

Some days
I can feel when things are wrong
Twisted and mangled
Feeling dismantled
End of the day
Wishing I could do
Something to make life
Less hectic for you
Comes with existence
No one read the fine print

Fun is infinite
Then how
Would we know anything else?

Sleepovers are timeless
Doesn't age like milk
2% of society
Agree with my notion
The rest
Like to raise a commotion
Too old to have fun
With a friend until the sun
Swaps out with the moon

Spread like semantics
No hope in the centerpiece
Of society
Locked up in cold bars
The room closed for bards
Gloves to shut out the sting
Icy touch with an unfinished flair
We're all stuck on feeling
Angels can't come down
To save the world from each other
Paranoia runs rampant
What happened to savory flavors?
Did our taste run dry?
Hot summer days couldn't burn
Through the tension in the air
The angels close the gates
Left out to our own fates
Yet there's nothing to discern
Searching for a hero
Hence why we see so much
Peacetime around lunch
No negatives only a zero
Our path is undecided
So let's walk forward
Not torn apart
But locked in compassion

Legends have come to stay!
Soldiers of iron
Horses in position
Raised to defend
Glorious an effort!
Preventing an unsightly war
Maybe it could
Raise our productivity
At the cost of the populace
Is it worth the sacrifice?
I'd say yes
Yet...
That's not for me to resolve
I keep those who thrived
And once died
Still alive
Despite my sight
My voice refuses to die
Legends will always stay.

Roam around
In a galactic playground
So much room
None with you
Drifting in the cosmos
Embraced by starlight
Pray that I'm not dwarfed
By your embrace
Cause nowadays
It doesn't sustain
Maybe it isn't my wish
To go out like this
Fading away
Faint
Division

Shadow canine
Stop taunting me
Still, you appear
I'm over her passing
Came to terms
Years in the past
Are you a sign?
Of something
I cannot comprehend
Or a reality
I refused to face
Shadow dog
Fugitive of no crime
Fleeing from reality
Cause my mind
Tells me what I want
I'll admit, I'm afraid
Don't know how to fix this
Leave me alone
She wouldn't want this to stay

The crushed up
Dreadful
Rotten tasting
Medicine
Helps a lot
Yet
I'm not sure
If
The cure is all
In
My imagination

Someone must be tossed below
For others to be
On top of the world

Our reunions
Daily to rare
What changed?

Shocks and scares
True horror
.
.
.
Being forgotten

Remember when life made sense?
Care never knocked at the door
Doorbell is broken
From the high dive
Reality cannonballed
Now everything is twisted
Mangled from the start
I'd like to understand it all
Let it be for now, but...
Can I still swim away?
When my arms
Don't want to exercise
Tired from the trials
That set me up to collide
Into havoc and mundanity
I remember when life made no sense
Everyday.

I'd like to live long enough

To write my own epilogue

Bottomless
Open for all
When it calls out
I want to jump in...
All that'll await
Is the ending
Of my story

Entered the cave
Pilfered some treasure
Apparently
It was all they had
Oh well
They can't chase me
Not anymore

Cracked rocks
Amongst
Fractured dirt
No souls in range
Nothing alive
Except me
I was told
There was a house here
Once
Upon a time
Now
I can't find it
In the distance
About 20 footsteps away
TV
Wooden frame
Knobs aplenty
Reaching my hand out
///K R R R R R R R R///
It turned on...
All I could see
A woman
A man
And a dog
Enjoying each others company
Twisted the ****
What's this...?
Another man
On his own
Stuck in a deserted local
Cracked rocks
Amongst
Fractured dirt
Wait a minute...
How...?

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Out of the depths
My brothers emerged
Yet what I saw...
Wasn't them.

The people want hope
A messiah
Someone to look up to
In times of hardship
Death
War
Famine
Catastrophe
Gifted with the power
To create
I will make a new hope
For all to survey
Doctorate in electrical reasoning
With pure electricity
Bring forth the mechanical messiah

Need to get out of bed
It's a chore
A fight in itself
But only
Cause you're scared
Don't worry
I'll help you out of bed
Each day
More taxing than the previous
I can't stand
The way it is either
But do we have many choices?
So just get up
Become entwined with my joy
Don't be scared
It'll be alright
Harsh times will soon get replaced
With days where
You want to get out of bed

Arched back
Eyes full of determination
Limber frame
Eager fists
Muscles hardened
I'm near the breaking point
But until I reach the limit
Nothing will break
Especially not my resolve
You monster
Masquerading as mankind
Your reign ends when I move!
For my father...
Who is not missing
But forgot how to fight
For a cause he believed in
I will not rest
Until you stop breathing!

Chose a path
.
.
.
How do I know it's the right one?
.
.
.
Is there a correct path?
.
.
.
Never learned how to do this stuff...

Stubby legs...
Small frame
Broken like glass
I want to go down those stairs...
All the others can
Why am I different?
One day!
I will descend
And discover soon enough
What lies beyond
The stairs that descend
Into a new realm

Why give life?
Humans breed all destruction
Drift through space
Make even more
Increase
Population bursting out
Some are nice
Most are aggravating
Why give life?
Want a child?
There's plenty of them
Wishing for a home
Three meals given through love
Not systematic necessity
Why stop with people?
There's so much that already exists
Let's all stop
Why give life?

Have we truly grown?
Or...
Are we still buds
Waiting to bloom?

I know it's illegal
I know I could be better
But this
Is all I've ever known
If I must
Die in a heist
Stealing to live
Protecting the ones
Who understand the most
My people...
So be it
I'll end my life
Doing something good
Selfless
Not selfish
It's morally flawed
But what else is left?
Wasn't born
To act as a renegade
Don't look down on me...
It's how I keep on fighting
My lineage is already spoiled
What's one more?

Can't get over you

Instead

I'll forgive myself

For thirsting over you

You dishonor my family name
Wrecked it
Tossed into the muck
Hurt
My family's source of joy
Dishelved
Lineage snapped in two
Worst of all...
Crime no one can surpass
Original sin
Definition of corruption
Embodiment of ******
.
.
.
You stole my juice box.
What happens next
Will never be forgotten

Sometimes                                                                     Authority
                   Life                                                        Back
                          Goes                                      Take
                                   Down               Finally
                                                Till we

From beyond
The horizon of darkness
A child
Holding a battered flag
Etched into
His ideals
What he chooses to believe in
Despite all
The injured near him
Just a kid...
How can he keep going?
The innocence of hope
Perseverance
The last thing his family left him
And he's just a kid.

Shot
Bruised
Sliced
Broken
I refuse to give in
To my limits
I wish to go beyond them
Mom
Dad
Thanks for believing in me
You're why I proclaim
To this day
I am still a hero
Good and evil vary
But a hero...
Always saves the day
I can't be the one...
...To change that!

Missed an hour
No problem
Missed 3 hours
That's a problem
At risk of disease
Not good
I've caught a cold
It's not even winter
Forgot something
What day is it?
Need to visit my grandpa
Hopped in the vehicle
Woke up
To shattered realization
If only I slept
At a daily rhythm

Weep in the sun
All will think
It's nothing but necessary sweat
Beading from moist eyes
Even when the sun goes down
The sweat moves
Down like a river
From a vision lens
Relied on

Solo
Then I paired with you
Together
Now you stray away
Broken
Need to put you down
Solo
Again I am

Seems like the world gets worse
Point which we can’t converse
Crime and drama on TV
May sway you to agree
News founded in the dollar
Reveal to us the true color
The world’s seeming decay
Preys on naiveté
Violence brings lasting effects
Raises paranoia to its apex
Corrupting their perception
Lowering our countries reception
News turns to fear
No wonder we want to disappear
Only corrupt is an illusion
Associated with confusion
Watch out for what you view
Twisting your mind like a *****
Implanted ideas from the mass media
That’s called brainwashing in the encyclopedia
Never pure evil
What are we? Medieval?
Hold onto the good
It’s just misunderstood
...
It wasn’t left in your childhood

My name is an identity
Everything else
Just call those credentials

Escapism
Word of the day
A concept extinguishing your ray
Some run from real danger
Retreat to a sole safe space
Some retreat from a perceived threat
That never was dangerous
Some hide from reality
To dilute their perceptions
A dark thought
All of us run from ourselves
Contact never goes through our head
Rather be caught dead
But why?
It’s okay to escape from reality
But ourselves?
We are the thing that we most hate
Stuck in an incurred fate
Desires to escape…
Yet is it so dangerous?
Here’s a theory
A mere idea
Escaping is improbable when faced with an obstacle

Bound by blood
Warm-blooded
But you're cold

If this world was created for us
Why aren't we happy in it?
Uncomfortable
At every turn
Is this our universal nightmare?
Or a dream left unfulfilled?
Take a trip to the wild side
They seem fine
With their own lives
No thought of existence
Future?
That'll come tomorrow
Why can't we be like them?
Probably because
We are different
Some are corrupt
Some raised on virtue
Yet now I clearly see
Life's music
It's called
A harsh noise wall

Came into life on this very planet
Full of water, land, and pomegranate
Given a light to block out the night
The star of flame, what a sight!
That boils our body and peels the skin
This isn’t paradise for it’s full of sin
Planet full of fun and games
Oh, that’s not true? What a shame
A place where nightmares come to life
Bond with one other person and call them a wife
Society isn’t built on the foundations of purity
Charity is old, hide your insecurity
Keep those emotions locked in tight
Hide indoors from the sunlight
The cruel and beautiful paradox
Human life controlled by clocks
Where is my guardian? Where is our hero?
The truth is there’s absolutely zero
Yet, still, we all have dreams
We aren’t hostile cause we make teams
I haven’t yet found my hope
Hanging off the end of a rope
Want to clean the corruption with a bar of soap

We did it!
Saved the city
I call my home
But...
It doesn't feel familiar
Did we forget to
Put something back?
Cortal Avenue
Not the same
We won
So why am I not
Proud?
It's time to celebrate
All I can ponder
Is the next challenge ahead
Without another
How will we grow?
Sometimes though
I wish it would stop
No more trials
Peace, come to me
I don't want to win
Instead
Give me a haven
Reject the legends
I accept tranquility