Mounting responsibility
Lacking direction
Fighting for ourselves
Just to push away everyone else
Social creatures deprived of connection
Authenticity replaced by complicity
Dying plasticity
Curiosity taken by toxicity
How can we keep fighting
When childhood was our peak?
If we fight to live
How can we fight for others?
No more schemes, dropping the rhyme scheme
When did becoming numb become commonplace?
Why do we give life just to smash their dreams?
What makes us unique when we are all a statistic?
How can we love each other without profitability?
Who created the rules of our society?
When did the sunlight turn to fading dawn?

Formulaic
Fit the mold with some cutout jokes
Replaceable
Disgraceful process
As a person
I must confess
Let me explain:
Such comedy found in humorous things
Yet all concepts can be considered
Funny to one
Something else to others
Perhaps hateful
Distasteful
Force a laugh?
Means it was never funny
To none
But executive mindsets
For success in such uncertainty
Variety is the prerogative.

Angels and devils
Sing to push forward
An anthem appropriate
For making prophets
Death denies us
Delayed for the demanding
We still push forward
Conquest motivates us
Creating cognitive challenge, craving corruption
We still push forward
We all have our ones
Preventing our fall
But if they led us to a chasm
Hiding their horror
Divided by the first face
Would we still push forward?

Our reunions
Daily to rare
What changed?

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

Children are not a medicine
Bring one alive to drive the bloodline
Not to cope, think before acting
Care for one, don't use one

Starving
For a missing piece
To become at peace
We must find what we seek

You alligator
Inside two places, devoid
Of love, of virtue

Bombshells
Carbon smells
Once the ash disintegrates
The victors integrate
Policy
Practice
Prayers
All destruction for reconstruction
Look back at the carnage and ask
Is it worth the lives you looked past?

Used for temporary results
And permanent trauma

Youth + Tragedy = Phobia
Phobia - Youth= Tragedy

Living with no fear...
Hardly a life that they have lived
Have they lived?
What separates us from the unliving?

Cloudy days
All a haze
I had never felt right
I have no more fight
Gone is my light
No sting, no bite

Paradise
Like succumbing to a spell
Touring heaven

Today is a new day
Yet it all feels the same
No one else to blame
For mediocrity
Comfort and stability
Stunts all abilities
The search for balance is a balancing act

Fun is infinite
Then how
Would we know anything else?

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

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...

Fascist
Terrorist
Two extremes, always the headline
Contorting our perception
What was once the outlier
Becomes the liar, lying in wait
For the chance to strike
After accompanying deceit
Crackling thunder
An eternal rift of wisdom
Two sides with separate information
If they collaborated with one another
Would it have stopped this mess? Created a bigger one?
For those seeking answers, I must confess
I don't know, we may never know.

You dishonor my family name
Wrecked it
Tossed into the muck
Hurt
My family's source of joy
Dishelved
Lineage snapped in two
Worst of all...
Crime no one can surpass
Original sin
Definition of corruption
Embodiment of ******
.
.
.
You stole my juice box.
What happens next
Will never be forgotten

Fading stars
Never go far
Black like tar
Only got enough to buy a beat-up car
[Switch up the beat]
Defeat is no feat
But to you-
Him
Her
And me
We all have our time
In fame
Success
All things that just bring us stress
End it on a good note:
Let’s just hope
That the gates are heavenly
Divine levity
I’m no church boy
So wherever I’ll go-
Enjoy the show

You never have to run away
So I will not either

Scraping the walls
That resemble my mind
I cannot think coherently
For my sight
Has gone blind
My ears
Have gone deaf
My touch
Has numbed
My smell
Has died
Toppled by nightmares
Which persist when awake
Wishing for the day
To fly away

Flawed leaders govern flawlessly
Flawless leaders lie to themselves
So, why wouldn't they lie to you too?

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.

Can't get over you

Instead

I'll forgive myself

For thirsting over you

Every piece
I find of you
Draws me closer to your essence
Cannot cope with your absence
Blue is my color
For every piece, I come across
The more your presence overcomes
Parameters of my heart
I'll shatter them and join up with you
Leave everything behind
While time cannot rewind
Today it shall be streamlined
For every waking hour
Spent in decay
Miss the one who always
Guided me down pathways
May have been the mosquito
That made you dread tomorrow
Yet you cured my vertigo
As my personal quest
Call me obsessed...
...but I must cure the repressed

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

Words that saved you, shot
Poisoned your vitality
From the exact tongues

For you
Now...
For who?

History written
From the bones of heroes
All a mystery
How we always reset back to zero
Children return to school
While adults play the fool
Faces of ghouls steeped in screams
Today's territory
Tomorrow's trauma
We are your enemy
Because of drama
No glory in gory ends
Stories snuffed, such sorrow
You are our enemy
Because of trauma
Tomorrow's drama
Spoken through melodrama
Mellow on the drama, place a comma
History written in bones
Of heroic clones
Are you a fraud or just flawed?

Out of the depths
My brothers emerged
Yet what I saw...
Wasn't them.

Croak away from the daylight
Nightime ambiance
Moonlit trance
Clash of dead night sounds
Set my stance in place
What will I do with fame?

Lost
Within the cracks
Kicked to the outskirts
Interest, only in seconds
Days, weeks, months
Then all at once
It dies like a passing trend
Youth and goof
It takes no sleuth to determine the facts
Forgotten and presumed
Awake and alive...
Nevermore

Information can be bought
Sold
Twisted
Forged
Knowledge is now
A hot commodity
An object, waiting to be bought

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

Enjoying nothing
Enjoying nobody
Taking chemicals
To change brain chemicals
Trying to act normal
In a life we made
How can anyone live on their own
When the odds are stacked against it?

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.

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

Sun's explosion
Earth's implosion
Countdown timer
Paints a grim reminder
As the cost rises
The tide follows
Burnt out from life
Burnt by the sky
Connection, regression
Isolation's new weapon
Dying young in the past
Living old in the future
One person deciding lives
One hundred needed to suture

From birth
I was given immortality
Never able to die, unless defied
By traumatic injury, to my earthly form

It gets lonely, staying so long
I've discovered lands, traveled across seas
But when it goes indefinitely
Achievements go from celebratory  
To mandatory

All things have an end
I only wish
That I could have one.

No longer fooled
By marketing
By glamour
By hope
All of these and so much more
Tossed to the dogs
Now, I live in reality
...
...
...
How do I go back?

Close the doors
Party ended at 12 AM
We're shutting down
Not just tonight
But for eternal time
Lengths not even I comprehend
Happy birthday
21 year old
Wish we could stay
But it's time to move along
Take our pizza home
So if you forget
A taste of what was once known
You'll remind yourself
With a mirage of myself
Here's a balloon
Maybe you'll soar with it
Or leave it alone
You were my favorite customer
...
Goodbye, regular.

Driving south
A carefree pilgrimage
Thousands do it
Such freedom
Such pleasure
No goal in sight
But to leave behind
A world turned to stone

Looming over objects
Coming into view
It was once buried deep
And dies once referred to
But today, it was found
Unearthed near a shallow basin
What is it?
A secret.

Your struggles aren't invalid
Conflicts aren't pointless
Yet in my eyes
I will surpass you
Clash of ideology
Both of us mean well
In the walk of life
Wanna get out running
No time to saunter
When the gap between us
Binds us down

Good
Bad
None of it matters
We're all fighting
To protect the things
We care about.

Looking at each other
Human on human
Conflict abounds, inspired by Truman
If an extraterrestrial came onto our territory
I have a sneaking suspicion
It'll be treated with more respect
Than **** sapiens

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

Over each bunk
The sun flooded in
Onto the floor, quickly
The playing cards, folded
The walls, weathered
Inside and out, painted
A palette of an evening day
In collaboration with a falling sun
How fitting, for the last day

Professionals
Hand out mere suggestions
Backed by years of
Study
Dedication
Long nights
Fright
Flaws
Wait...
They're human too?!