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

You're all broken fools
Yet I'm just like you
Who will fix our strings?

History written
From the bones of heroes
All a mystery
How we always reset back to zero
Children return to school
While adults play the fool
Faces of ghouls steeped in screams
Today's territory
Tomorrow's trauma
We are your enemy
Because of drama
No glory in gory ends
Stories snuffed, such sorrow
You are our enemy
Because of trauma
Tomorrow's drama
Spoken through melodrama
Mellow on the drama, place a comma
History written in bones
Of heroic clones
Are you a fraud or just flawed?

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?

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

When you make excuses
Sloth is all it introduces

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

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

Cracked foundations, damage
Celebrate, imperfection
Beautiful ruin
Guidance for the guilty
Illness instantly improved
Never sick, always maintained
Secure but unsure
What if, I offered a cure?

In my best health
Inside the worst world
Ignored by my mistakes
Isolated in a world of fakes
Ignorant to my best
Standing abjected, standing out
In my best defeat

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.

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...

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

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

Mounting responsibility
Lacking direction
Fighting for ourselves
Just to push away everyone else
Social creatures deprived of connection
Authenticity replaced by complicity
Dying plasticity
Curiosity taken by toxicity
How can we keep fighting
When childhood was our peak?
If we fight to live
How can we fight for others?
No more schemes, dropping the rhyme scheme
When did becoming numb become commonplace?
Why do we give life just to smash their dreams?
What makes us unique when we are all a statistic?
How can we love each other without profitability?
Who created the rules of our society?
When did the sunlight turn to fading dawn?

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 a world that seeks to divide
Why am I the one who is still alive?
What future is worth all of this strife?
Everytime my heart is proven right
I lose the will to fight
Tell me what am I fighting for?
I can't recall the reason anymore

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

All my friends
They are so close
But feel so far
Distant hollow stares
Are they alive or hanging on?
To the end of a rope or through the knot?
I could never be them
They could never be me
Yet, I stare into their eyes
Wondering, pondering
Do they know what they are anymore?

21st century
Careers turn to fears
Reliance on tears, submission to beers
Acknowledging the power
Of powerlessness, cower wildflower
Your dreams rise high
Just to fall so low, tongue-tied by demise
Failing at every session
Ingestion of aggression
Here's my confession:
Depression and compression
Feeling possessed, feeling repressed
If I ask too many questions
Then, welcome to the penitentiary

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

Want vs. have
I want to do this
So I go to chose it
But when I have to do this
It makes me lose it
Freedom never freed him
Why even pretend?
Our life ends once we fend
Individuality turned to superficiality
Fighting for life, common mentality
Why is it easier to die under lax legality?
Wanting to have a choice
No matter the side
Choice is never supplied

My name
In your will...
...
...who are you anyway?

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

My hopes and dreams
Greater than they seem
The visions I gleamed
Of a world better than me
Perfected, splendid
The world looked so beautiful
Until my eyes glanced around
To see the faces of discontent
Shattered, fractured in the wind
Trampled under our own feet
Running toward an empty seat
Illusions control all our lives
No one knows true strife
For when I glanced upon the world
Mundanity rang out to me
Striking like a lightning bolt
Deafening my heart
For the future I used to see
Was built out of dreams

To one person
Good may be bad
To another
Bad may be good
But what is the difference?
In reality:
They never truly existed

Human versus human
We call that the past
Human versus self
We call that the present
Human versus humanity
We call that the future
Subjugating and eliminating
To avoid substitution
Destitution's lullaby
Spoken aloud, howled
Until no ears can hear
And the cycle returns
Back to the ground

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

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?

Dime a dozen, homicide
Comprehend such a crime
Unlikely for me
But it's my job
The purpose I've built up
Which can be thrown to the wind
In an instant.
But those thoughts are crippling
How shall I start?
Where do the footprints end?
Will they turn inward?
Travel onto rooftops
Muck occupies the ceiling
Trail runs cold
Colder than the touch of angel wings
Judgmental
Cold
Morally sound
Why did they do it?
//Yeah...//
//Why did you do it?//

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

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?

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

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

The angels present themselves
Roaming throughout the earth
Shunning evil
Flocks and herds
Who escaped
To warn those they cannot save

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

From our origin
To alpha and omega
Peace remains stranded

Hopping to other states
After one encounter
Downright despicable
Yet understandable
Maybe today it'll be time
To break the habit
That makes you blind
Doom will not follow
Wisen up
Unless you like being hollow
Accompany your side
For this world needs a sight
Sore eyes
To enlightened
Free of fear
Dashed of despair
Keep me in sight
It'll be alright
Running leaves behind problems
Another day
No one can run forever.

"Your life is special"
"You were born for greatness"
As the last of my energy fades
"Today is a blessing, tomorrow is a gift"
But the chains of yesterday scare me stiff
This life is no reward, I need a rewind
Going back to the peaceful moments
I never thought I would survive
Never been more free
Never felt this much misery
So please tell me, tell me please
What kind of place do you want to be?
As our friends fade, our happiness decays
Too busy to live when we enjoy the mundane
Every day, all the same
No wonder people go insane
How can a life be lived when it is all the same?