I feel like I’m drowning, in confusion, loneliness and anxiety
This feeling cascades like a never ending tide of emotion washed away by the regret of my own indiscretions
Just as the moon controls the tide, my actions control my destiny
As the future is engulfed by the present, I begin to wonder if I am drifting into the abyss that exists within the murky depths of my mind
Breathless, I suffocate and cry out for help
It is only until I wake up that I realize that no one is there

-A kid who dreamed of becoming a king

I robbed myself of my motivation
I was the individual with the ski mask
I pressed the glock .9 against the tellers temple
While she prayed to god, I counted the devil for my greed turned into an evil deception of my own moral ambiguity
What I thought was a righteous path was truly an everlasting darkness littered with my decayed convictions
subliminal messages pierced my mental processes controlling me like a lamb to the slaughter
As my hand gripped the trigger I thought to myself
Who am I doing this for?
Who do I live for?
As I cut the cash silently like the a surgeons incision, my mind was running circles like clockwork
Time was my mistress, ironically stringing me along, deceiving me to believe that I was the puppet master
With no strings attached I remained untethered, oblivious to my own reality
All along I thought I was the king
However, just as the sheep follows the Shepard I became a cog without cognition