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

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

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

"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?

Truly
We have always been equal
Labels, rewards, titles
These are what drive us apart

Grey clouds dangle over
Heaven obscured from our sight
Hell, forever still

How long will it take
For straying from the mainstream
To cause a downpour?
Rivaling a revelry
Turning from inspiration
A greater nation
Built from breaking tradition
Just to be put back in cages
Part of a group
To compensate
For being alone
Today, punk is popular
Tomorrow, pop is putrid
We are moving along
Just to come back home

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.

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.

Being humane equates to permanent pain.

Brave aviators
Prepared to fly, leaping off
A shattered foundation

Mimes, clowns in disguise
Reality, no surprise
Dictated by deceit

fading
faster
happy memories
pushed out
in favor of lesser replacements
is this what it means to live?

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.

Where does the heart
Meet satisfaction?
Does it come with a place
Or a kind enough action?
I guess I’ll never know
For today is slow
Childish feelings
Cloud throughout my mind
Bundled in pairs
Of trouble and danger
Someone gave you all my love
Who was the one?
I guess I’ll never understand
That’s what my friends are telling me
It’s not the season for heartbreak
Falling down
White flakes covering up
Forever remaining unchanged
What have I done?
Just having fun
My own breed
Is not your own
I guess I’ll never comprehend
Unless the ocean waves
Tap the heavens
But I’ve already moved on
At the end of days
It’ll seem like nothing
So for now
The clouds separate
I remain unchanged.

Oh, I see clearly now
A new type of pride:
Family
Flawed as they may be
It only brings them closer to me

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

Perfection, standard
Criteria varies with all
No definition

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.

None around
To me, that's fine
Don't need to know everything
Born unknowing
Directionless boy
Entwined in the concrete jungle
Swinging on a high
That'll never end

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?

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.

Cloudy penumbra
Don't Illuminate my heart
A husk in remains

Drifting, spinning
Dancing to two tempos
Slow and steady
Fast and fierce
Once upon a time
Our rhythm intertwined
Tangled, never mangled
Until you started dancing
To someone else's tempo
I kept dancing, always forward facing
Hoping one day soon
We could waltz again
Under the pale moon
Where the rhythm can be set
By our hearts, beating anew

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.

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?

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."

We know why it rains
The clouds colliding
Suffocating the sun
Bringing forth life
Pouring over our heads
While we focus on strife
Our life is rife
Knife in hand to cut away the darkness
We know why it rains
But it never did anything
To stop it from falling

Sons of the priest
Wash water
To burn it all on the altar
Every offering, pleasing
Crumbled, into essence

Weighing me down
Jacket with memories of the past
What my life is--
Correction
What it used to be
How else shall I run forward?
Shackles in my heart
Unlocked not with a key
Sometimes to move along
Restrictions must be lifted
I'm sorry my past
To jump into the night sky
With abandon
Praising the sky above
Must cave into my heart's demands
I'll impound my cries
For tomorrow
Appreciation will see me soon
Lead on now my body
A sacrifice has been made

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

You never have to run away
So I will not either

Broken systems
Yield broken results

Self-evident truths
Life, liberty, together
All for one, none else

False truths
True lies
Hiding in plain sight
You can be anything you want!
But others will judge you
You have no limitations!
But your environment has shackles
You are simply the best!
But you will never be at the top
You should be kind to others!
But take advantage of their needs
For gain, for fame, no matter the pain
Look around, look down
True lies have eyes that dramatize
False truths have tongues that define the youth
Welcome to the world, welcome to the worst
Welcome to the last time of your first half-truth

A love of hate
A hatred of love
Across time and land
As we stick to our rock
We will never transcend
Our biological bend

Sayonara
I once looked at your eyes
To find pure light staring back
Ignorance, forgiveness
Purity in one iris
But as time goes on
You stop staring back at me
Your gaze fixed on the future
Transitioned into a haze
While never looking back at me
Where did our good times go?
What did it mean to you back then?
You can't lift your head, your guilt is heavy
But I wish I told you
That it was not your fault, time is our assault
The mirror you look into is far from here
How can someone so young look forward to the end?
Why did you grow up so quick?
Why do you trust no one?
I blink my eyes with no more haste
Only to find what remained
Has gone for good...

Grasping for power
Trampling flowers
Holding on to all
Giving it all to one
Shuffling our lives
Creating hermits
Changing fools
Combating devils
Redefining the wheel of fortune
All to reassure
Their exit strategy
All for one, the only one who won
Those who sought to be greater
Born from cold parents
Inflicting inflammation to spite them
Now our world is controlled by tempered justice
Just for us to observe
Our incompletion

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.

Dropped down to the floor
Excavated my valor
Glamour? Behind time.

Even if I keep running
Toward a creeping sunrise
Will I reach what I need?
Doubts fill up the glass
Cracks and borderline
Shatter
But every day is a change
In something around my life
Breaking, I've become used to it
Come to peace with the fact
It'll be part of me now

Enjoy life today
No more ranting, for minutes or months
To conformity

My mind is broke
To me
Everything is a joke
Must be why I never get along with folk
Laugh
Get back to the studio
Along with the staff
There's no show
Once you forego the status quo
Today we have fun
Until there is none.

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

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?

They will descend soon
Unfortunately, none live
Vanquished, betrayed

Drive me down to Mars
The future of my kin
Worry breaks
Out on my skin
Such is the era
Full of it evermore
Feed the masses with the possibility
Of futures
Long-term
Not short and sweet
Drive me down to Mars
Show off the concept
Of
Hope

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

We can make the world
Or break it further
Emptying our rage and worry
Onto a rock
Drifting through space
We can change the world
Then I see:
Decay
Trash, up to the knees
Paper bags flowing in a breeze
No more do I think
We can make the world
Instead
We can take away the world.