Infinite
Eternal
One lives forever
The other is known forever

From our origin
To alpha and omega
Peace remains stranded

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

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.

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

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

Humanity has lost its humanity

Are you there?
Staring in through the window
Vague outlines
Absorbing the shadows
You look like me
But I never really know
If you are me
Penumbra with reflection
Sharing all the signs
Of a figment of humanity

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."

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

What was once yours
Now mine
Not to own
But to heal
Watch as the future crumbles
For our shoulders can only hold so much weight
Until they snap

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.

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...

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

We are not unhappy
Just constantly disappointed

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

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

Amok
A mock
Mocking our time
Principles of life
Shattered from the spine
Broken, battered
Gone from the divine
Tattered, scattered
Like a burnt vine

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

Falling
Bodies descending
Closer to the ground
I only have
So many arms
Not everyone
Will have a soft landing
To those I'll say:
I apologize
For I am no hero
Mighty as a statue
Nor quick as the wind
Instead
I am bound by mortality
Pushed down via flesh and bone
Do the best I can
With the little I have to work with.

We gained our pride
Lost our dignity
Now all that remains
Are fractured identities
Decimation, the core of humanity
For destructive beings
Is there an end to enmity?

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.

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

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.

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.

When you make excuses
Sloth is all it introduces

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

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

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.

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

Despite the days spent held up
Inside
Problems have yet to solve themselves
Regret
Will tears solve a crisis?
Withstand
So much torture of the soul
Write
An ode to the fallen
War
One of biology, none with tension
Sleep
Can it rebuild us?
Or for all to heal
Free from decay and
Lost passion
To occupy the soil
Everchanging mystery

Fighting to move forward
Only takes us back
Aggression without direction
Brings us closer to destruction
Director of chaos
Archbishop of hatred
I would cry out for peace
Humaniy does not know what it means
Species destroyed
Nature discarded
I know now
It will soon put us to rest

Tick
Tock
Click of a clock
Every time the pendulum swings
We lose cherished things

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

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

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

Floods, storms
Water with weight
Burning fire
Heat shining bright
Earthquakes, fissures
Ground shaking with rage
Tornado, typhoon
Hurricane of pain
Natural disaster, natural tragedy
Artificial tragedy comes with humanity
Spread like a wildfire
Strike like thunder
Sink like an iceberg
Sting like a swarm

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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.

Sounds less like bragging
Looking for approval ratings?
Screaming about your cars, guitars
Yelling to the world
"I am someone! Look at my accomplishments!"
You've never been admonished
Truly astonished
Not by your fame, but your lack of a conscience
Survival of the strongest doesn't apply to fame
The more you obtain, the less you have to gain
More pain, more strain
Those who look from below wish they could be near you
Those who look from above think of ways to misuse you
Me, I sit, watching you race
So tell me, tell me why
Why do you keep up this pace
When all it does is contort your face?

They will descend soon
Unfortunately, none live
Vanquished, betrayed