Averting from the truth
Seeing what suits you
How many more will be like you?
Slashing between the real
How can you hope for us to heal?
Full of the unreal
A metronome out of tune
Stepping into a trap you placed
This is the best of our love
Will it suit you?

Tell to no other
Words which remain exclusive
Capable of ruin

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

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

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.

A better world may come
But not from a worse world
You fight for the future
But your actions stay cold
Burning, sinking
Preventable but predictable
You live out of fear
Your path is paved with death
Unnatural lives
Succumbing to natural strife
A clock without time
A race with no finish line

A child speaks
With no hint of malice
A child acts
With no restrictions
A child plays
With no alertness
A child exists
With no care for position
Taken away with age
Most humane
Most disdained
Hated for their freedom
But if a child loses it all
Their greatest freedom is nonexistence

Hundreds die
Thousands fall
Millions tremble
Hopelessness
Heartlessness
A heart without hope
Flowers covering chaos
Love, in a mist

The good go early
Staying and leaving
The evil stays around
Poisoning the trees
Our roots remain
But our reason is remade
All of them, gone
Why do I stay?

Killing a killer
Saving a savior
Protecting a paragon
Mourning the lost
Believing their beliefs
Preaching what they preach
Turning, changing
Imitation of an imitation
Chain by chain, blood to blood
Defeating hatred by becoming hated
To find any meaning
Would emphasize our futility

Buying into a future
Devoid of existence
Setting up for old age
Where you will never make it
Dying in the present
To live in the future
Looking back to find
Pain, pressure, *******
Now, all that you remember
Slips away
Cashed in years ago
For a decaying pleasure

Calm at the core
Vibrations at the shell
Impatience has a purpose
Patience is a virtue
But it rewards the long-term
For those with no privilege
They will chase the immediate
Ardent and foolish
One will receive
One will delay
Which is the right choice?
Is it the one still here today?