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.

I'm made of clay
I can be anything
Cars, planes
Trees, bees
But when I change
Will I stay the same?

Immaculate
Not in this world
Nor any other
Teeth sharing a gap
****** front teeth
Impurity
In this world
In many more
Gang shootouts
At 3 in the morning
Flawless corruption
Impeccable filth
Mix both up
Cocktail of existence
The flavor is immaculate

Free to fly
The illusions we choose
A beautiful life
Telling you to live by example
Until the isolation defines your sight
Hey, are you truly happy?
Do you wake up in strife?
How long can you keep going
As the world takes away from you?
Remember, I love you
But the world turns hands to fists
Charity to chastity
No choice but to fight
Now watch as we fall
How can I set an example?
My positivity has turned to poison

Home of security doors
None can be hurt
But none are invited either

Hope
Despair
Both apples
Fallen from the same tree

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

Viper, cobra
Hands of an assassin
Rabbit, hare
Legs of a runner
Combined together
Prey and predator
Uniting as one
To defy a single endeavor
To crumble an enterprise
From deep inside

Another day left to waste
Lying in wait
Purpose begins to fade
I know it is a fake
When will the ones bound by the heart
Leave my embrace?
Trapped in my headspace
No room for pace, it is all a chase
Tracing the space into the outline of a face
Long erased, out of place
Another day of being replaced
Sinking into disgrace
A life defaced

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

A harsh winter breakup
Heist of a jewel
End times of the dead
Terrible tragedies
Fear personified in one
Wars that ask
Have we been fighting in vain?
.
.
.
There's a film for it all.

The moon, I smile at you
Every time I feel alone
At least one thing never changes
After all, I still see you

Behind that splendid plain
Ice, piled high
A midnight sun, resting on top
Like a silhouetted candle
It may be cold
But it has never been so inviting.

When you meet for the last time
No one knows
It will be the final one

Is status our value?
Money?
Fame?
Power?
Just like all of us, artificial
Never real and redundant
Who decides this if it was never here?
We keep breaking
Down and out and obvious
If it can be taken, did it ever have value?
One man can be crucial
One nation can be crippled
It comes in and out and up and down
Always fluctuating and reconstructed
All just numbers, all just games
We live our lives under a ruler's disdain

Societal evolution
Should simplify scenarios
Yet in our modern times
Which rapidly change
Things only got convoluted

Concrete
Concave
A con of all
In a carnival
Hollow has no equal
A thrill ride with no sequel
Wait a couple of years, rebooted
Those who booed it will soon salute it
Extended from the mind into beautiful ruin
On a beautiful day
We all tell beautiful lies

Shimmering stars
In a twirling vortex
I see true beauty
Not the human beauty
Of adjustments, lifts, and edits
But natural, plentiful
I have seen true beauty
It was here all along.

Lights, so bright
A party, let's celebrate tonight
All the people I like are here
But still, there's something I fear
As people dance, sing, and drink
I can't help but look out the window
Glancing fast
Looking for reprieve
At the happiest time
Of the happiest night
I still feel no safe
As I look left to right
These feelings, so tense
It is hard to trust
When it all leads to a fight
So tired, so tired...
Maybe it's best to leave, to take flight

Fighting for you
Fighting for...who?
Fighting for...
For...
Me?

Truth
Distorted by the perceiver
People fight to prove theirs
Reminders of how primal we are

Clarity
Truth of the mind
Does it foster love?
Or does it foster chaos?
Lateral truth
Lateral violence
How many have died
Fighting for lies?

As the moon shines bright
My eyes go dim
Wondering how my life begins
Stagnation, elation
Passed by a whole nation
I look to the stars
Fewer than before, so far
The world is beautiful
But our actions are putrid
Fueled by illusions
Today, I stay
Tomorrow, give into the delusions

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

Manipulate the masses
To reach a state of numbness
Dulling a country
To take it over

I like you
Or is it hate?
Wake up early
Maybe late
Hungry
Not anymore
Which is such?
Like there's more than me
Residing inside
A chamber of flesh and bone
Mind decides
To flip like a coin
I feel like heads
How about tails?

Conceptual conspiracies
Originate with hate and distrust
For when something is important
No coincidence, a planned event
No accidents, a coordinated fight
Once something lives in mystery
It will forever be tied to history
As a legacy

Knocking at the exit...
Can't see it.
I gotta find my old opulence
Maybe, the exit was always here
But, my eyes
Chose to ignore it

Chores rhyme with bore
Cause it makes us want to snore
Distractions from reality
Suffering in daily living, while promoting attraction
Such a chain reaction
Could never spell satisfaction without the "i"
For I for once realize
That with no message, who can be the sender?
The truth we have known
Applies to us alone
Separate fact from fiction
How can I do so, when everything has no prediction?
Today's fiction, tomorrow's friction
An addiction to contradiction,
I'd call this fancy diction if I wasn't being constricted

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

No aspirations
Delusions of grandeur
All they give is dopamine
Which my brain resists
Going through the motions
Life is no checklist, why has no one checked this?
For when the bucket list is finished
What comes next?
Filling up a bucket just to dump out the water
Wasting oxygen on an expensive ottoman
If I could be a cosmopolitan, I'd deny the request
All it does is make my chest feel pressed, stressed
Why should I be obsessed with tests when I have no self-interest?

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

Solo
Then I paired with you
Together
Now you stray away
Broken
Need to put you down
Solo
Again I am

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

Falling down
With no floor
To carry me
When will I come down?
And

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Planted feet
Enriched in riches
I have never been better
But I feel faint
Always falling, never stalling
Am I moving up?
Down?
Left?
Right?
Cardinal sins with no direction
Every time I catch my breath
Life erodes at my exhaustion
Peaceful days
Ruined by jagged skin
Pins and needles
I am the true evil
To my reflection
Twisting and flipping
Small size, vast numbers
A cricket's chime, ringing infinitely

When did mankind
Lose their kind?
When did the preacher
Become the payer?
What does it mean
To live in a modern age?
When does the noise
Stop being normal?
What happens to the mind
When exposed to constants?
How can a future be made
When none enjoy today?

Stretched thin
Between the lines
Of death and life
How can you save others
When life is absent
Of stability, nobility
Lessening tranquility
Living lies while people realize
They could have prevented all of this
If they spoke with their eyes

As I get older
World gets colder
All I can muster, crocodile tears
Numb to the cries
How can I harmonize when tragedy is normalized?

Killing each other
Requires the prerequisite
Of killing our selves

My bed is a king
But I am no royalty
For it is incomplete
Without a queen
Yet I never deserved one
A kid can be no king
Nor can he control a kingdom
Relieved of this duty
For control of so many
No pleasure, only pressure

Upon returning home
The cobblestone greeted me
But, every brick
Every layer
Turned from hollow and grey
To flesh-ridden, staring eyes
Looking with interest
Wondering where they were
I would say, mere curiosity
But these eyes
Looked upon me
With shame

It was an accident
He forgave me for it
So, why does my mind...
Harbor a grudge?

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.

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

Alone
A cycle remains
Together
The cycle still remains
For it was orchestrated for years
By those
We have never known

Process
To cure the hate
Cull violent endeavors
Shifting the cycle
Into a recycle bin
For when violence comes
We seem to purge the violent with violence
Unto us:
The new cycle is fully realized
Yet...
It is the same but disguised.

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

Love is essential
What can it manifest as?
Desire or joint love

I gave you everything I had
Instead
He gave you what you wanted
Who's the real winner?

They will descend soon
Unfortunately, none live
Vanquished, betrayed