Surround the self with sound
For the mixture of voices
Breeds achievement

Show it off for all to see
Yet only scattered few
Care enough to view
Tragic evidence
Of algorithmic downfall

Never took action
Draped in dissatisfaction
Tomorrow come soon.

Don't break the shield
Once it crumbles
It's gone forever
My shield...
Well it'll never go
I've tried to pry it off
Too late
It's embed in.

Never enough
For the ones I care the most about

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

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

Star in the sky
Where has your brightness shone?
To another distance
For tomorrow's storm
Painfully oblivious
Way we live
Expecting you to come
With no delay
Sadly one day
Oh, the center of the universe...
You will fade away
Rest and decay
Resurrect your power
Not my agency
If only I could revive
What will set me free.

Knock on the window
No one heard
From deep inside
Too immersed
Guests aplenty
Where was my invitation?
Possibly
This is a wake-up
Ten years too late
Choices I've made
Pile on high
Try to get close
Yet by the end
Driven further along
Went from a name
To a thing
What did I do wrong?
...
What if it was never a fault
To take as my own
Faithful without a cause
Shot in the dark
No bullseye today
Every day is an attempt to learn
Today...
I've learned in the world
Signs of indifference
Showed me the difference
Between friend
And loose end

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

Things I used to recall
Crystal clear
Slowly fading
Silhouettes
Of what once was memorized
Every detail
Mixed for another
Is this how it feels...
To grow?

Never took action
Draped in dissatisfaction
Tomorrow come soon

Proud to come this far
Scrounged through the muck and tar
Now at the very top...
Yet the abuse never stops
Superior to who?
I just wanted to be a hero to you.

Standards everchanging
Academics
Beauty
Health
In relation to the nation
Never maintaining
Forever a remix
Procralimed by a snooty
Individual
Flowing with wealth
Bankrupt in understanding
If everyone began to harm
We'd idolize it as a norm
No matter the charm
It'd be a uniform thunderstorm

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.

Feminine self
Entwined
Rewind
Back to the moment of self
Prosper inside my own skin
Virtuous resolution
Producer
When did such a culture
Praise vultures?
A match made regretfully
Sense of self
Distorted
Flag of pride
Stuck to my side
Collecting pieces of clarity
Before disparity

Blackest night
Absence of light
Line of light passes through the cracks
Take a glimpse
Too much for me
No one else it could be
Except for the daily check-in
Everything around my head
Pictures of static
For my emotion
Locked in the attic
Cannot analyze
The heart behind it all
Darkness is merely the absence of light
Yet deep inside resides plenty of strife
Asking me to survive
For what?
The faucet no longer pours
Only drips until it's sealed
Thankfully the mirror
Too dark to see
The scars within my iris
A large chamber for liquid
In a minute
It could be my new home
Come visit my catacomb
Found the cure to my syndrome.

Why do you love what you do?
One says the environment
Another genetics
Predisposed affection
Blocks for insurrection
How about
Some bias?
Entirely probable
Once loved by your parents
Now cherished by the kin
Fit to wager on the right one?
Plot twist
Last-minute savior
None are wrong
All equally right
The science of emotional expression
Pursues in different forms
Not chemically
No solid, liquid, nor gas
Conceptually
That's the way it shall be.

No pain
War halted
Famine destroyed years ago
Pristine white and silver
What was once extinct
Brought back to life
Speed up production
Robotic setting
Worker cruelty
Still here but without pain
Machine paradise
Glomerate?
All have their own space
Benefits the soul
...
Then I woke up
Same as ever
Thought the world would move
In a
Correct direction
Expectation turned inside out
Permanent peace
Only in dreams.

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Nervous about nerves
Anxious about anxiety
Cruel jokes take the longest
To comprehend
Once the joke
Becomes anew
Rename it to
My name
Not laughing, are you?
Era put to rest
Arc of happiness
Split down the center
All there is...
...is snuffed out possibility.

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

So did the problems

Tonight there is no light
Only thing I understand is the night

Deliver unto me a fright
Good luck, never in my sight

The darkness doesn't bite
Struck down with blight?
That's a fate I'll rewrite
I'll become the light

Banished into the spotlight
Quit acting uptight

Soaring from a new height
I can almost touch the daylight

Once hope pierces through
Maybe I'll stop feeling blue

Looking through a haze.

Not leaving
Just searching
For a purpose

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

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

Shocks and scares
True horror
.
.
.
Being forgotten

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...?

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

Drive me down to Jupiter
Largest it can be
A home
Which I cannot occupy
Unless I'd like to
Fall asleep for eternity
So for today
Let's journey
Down to
Rapture's landmark

Can you label yourself
As a teacher
If you can't teach
Yourself?

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

Stop.
You've pushed me down
Knocked my hopes out
Into embers
Tore my faith apart
After years
Built it all back up
Like any empire
Rise
Fall
Rebirth
Yet now you come
Back to pillage
Ruin is all you bring...
Part of me can't comprehend
That you are...
...me.

Tell to no other
Words which remain exclusive
Capable of ruin

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