Idolizing a person
Will not heal a fractured heart
It will only remain
Broken, unrefined

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

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?

Glimmer and glamour
Grey buildings with vacant eyes
Advertised to buy

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.

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.

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

Perfection depends on perspective
So why waste time
Chasing after inconsistencies?

Memories incomplete
Rolled into a blur
Static, but never static
Please give me one more time
So I can remember you
That face, that laugh
Who were we?
The lights are flickering
Waiting to go out
Once night comes, we go
Not far, but away
Far gone are the days
When I was on my own
Cradled in sickening sorrow
But we have no more time
Now my memories are tinted blue
But, they will never go away

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

Would you open a door
If you knew what was coming?
Would you step on the frame
If the other side was worse?
Would you twist the doorknob
If what awaited was pain?
Pain brings progress
But all ours seems unnecessary
Necessary to progress
But all we do is beat others down
When we lift others up
We push ourselves down
But maybe, that's okay
Because in the end
Living is not ethical

"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?

Parasites of peace
Thrive on conflict, past turmoil
Modern banal spoils

Roses red, overflow
Double entendre, conjoined
In blood or desire?

A daily mantra:
Talk is cheap, actions speak louder
Why do we trust product marketing
If talk is all they can afford?

Flawed leaders govern flawlessly
Flawless leaders lie to themselves
So, why wouldn't they lie to you too?

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

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

We pull down statues
For we know that
Soon, there will be no one left
To gaze upon them

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!

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

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

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

Teeth like knives
Eyes blood red
Hands adorned with claws
Feet fast to hunt
A beast, a monster
Self-made moniker
Looking in glass reflections
Was it always like this...?
Am I the victim or just another monster?

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.

CEO?
"Not a real job"
Manual labor?
"Go get educated"
Stuck between two boulders
With no strength to lift both

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

Final resting place
Of my father
Mother
Sister
Brother
Aunt
Cousins
...
I may die here
Fulfilling the family duty
However
I'll go down
With resistance
And pride
More than you can say
Of your cowardly lineage
Deliver my fate!
You two-bit henchman!

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

Decaying, degrading
We take all for granted
Never giving ourselves time
To enjoy what we have
Our clocks are set to different times
If you never got the memo
Metronomes tick at different tempos
So when our time comes to close
We turn it back to avoid letting go

Oh, the rain
Nurturing and plentiful
Necessary for life
As it drops down our hands
Oh, the rain
I wonder if one day
Our rain-soaked hands
Will be filled with holes
As you pierce right through us
A cry soon hushed
Since the deal was
Acid for gold

Days are numbered
Our life is numbered
Labeled from birth
Laminated by death
Do you enjoy life?
Tell me the number
How often do you desire slumber?
You feel encumbered
The pros of life have been outnumbered
The more we see, the less we care
Numerous numbers
Apathy and complacency
Loving life until we realize
We were never truly free
Cannot break our chains
When they are bonded by bone
Binded by bureaucracy

One-sided love
Lust?
Desire?
Not too dissimilar

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

Always moving
Nothing is fixed
Everything is a risk
Is this why nothing feels like home?
Roaming or trapped in domes
Feeling alienated, call it a syndrome
Caring about chrome more than the biome
Hollow, made of styrofoam
Never improving
Always moving

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

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.

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?//

Poisoning the well
Questions are flung, words that stung
As our flask withdraws

Disconnected
Deep in contemplation
Today turns to tomorrow
Connected by a string
Waiting to be broken
By hate
My apathy becomes a weapon
Plunged into my back
My own hands are stained
With flesh and bone
Digging deeper into the core
Of despair
Filled up with clutter
Until there's nothing left
I would listen to my heart
If it beats loud enough
To wake me from my stupor

Once the sky fades
Accompanied by burning
Play our downfall song

Twisted, contorted, distorted
Familiar visages
Hidden in strange scenery
Always drawing clocks--
Using time to draw time

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

Humanity has lost its humanity