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Kush Feb 2017
Why must I dream?

Is it not enough to die within reality?
Must I perish within a multiverse of concealed consciousness as well?

Why must I rage?

Caustic temper burns arteries and chokes out my life
Must I remain resigned to this illimitable torture?

Why must I question?*

The world pours its heart out to a dissatisfied partner
Must I continue down this path, this road of intellectual discontent?
Why?
Kush Feb 2017
Out, out in a world of pine
lay a land unmolested by time
Through and through, free of grime
was this land made, made to shine

Soon enough, decay had its day
crestfallen trees cracked and broke
ash took over roots with a sooty choke
Oh yes, Mother Nature was made to pay

Waves of denizens took to town-square
They discussed, raved, and cried out like thunder
Far too late had they realized their blunder
Mother Nature, meanwhile, had taken her fair share

The ground convulsed with violent rage
Thorny vines rapidly sunk into skin
each and every neck separated from a chin
accompanied by inhumane shrieks and the scent of sage

Out, out in a world of crimson pine
lay a land briefly ravaged by time
Through and through, now free of grime
was this land made, made to shine
Inspired by Annabel Lee
Kush Feb 2017
Let’s go down to La La Land, ladies and gents
There are quite a few dangers to circumvent
zombified crowds of unimpassioned creeps
we’ll start spilling their lipstick-shaded blood just to watch it seep

We’ve given away our hearts calling out these fake, sons-of-*******
They’re vicious and pernicious, held together by skin deep stitches
It’s about time that artificial apathy is dusted off society’s seat
We will have our glory on the throne, it doesn’t matter how fleet

Let’s go down to La La Land ladies and gents
For there, our smiles may forever be slightly bent
It’s the disarray we crave, chaos letting us contemplate
dancing out woozy blues with flaws on our faces and sealed fates
Kush Jan 2017
I was beyond time, beyond space and, even then, I saw myself marginalized and confined by some unseen limit, an invisible force

It was the hand of reality snaking through the cosmos, eager to reclaim the wayward child that eluded its grasp

Despite this realization, I defied the so-called “natural order” for I, a being of flesh and blood, was not to be confused as organically pure

The opinions of a world around me had melded into my own inner monologues and construed a stardust born infant towards a less diluted path

I walk this path and, paradoxically, I propagate the path itself

Calling me pure would imbue myself with a divinatory regard, one which I had not earned and would not earn for millennia

Regardless, I was still a fragment of the universe as, no matter how minuscule a fragment may be, it is integral to constitute a whole

The smallest of fragments feel the touch and limitations imposed by Great Death

Impure as I was, I recognized that Death was inconsequential in the grand scheme

Death inspired either fear or reverence amongst mortals of every civilization but these were unnecessary reactions

Blackness or light, whichever consumes us, is simply a biological interpretation

We refer to Death as “the end” even when we haven’t had the opportunity to test this theory, to see past Death

Our skin rots, our organs and bones corrode into dust, but that is simply what we observe through our narrow scope of understanding

What logic is there in judging flesh by flesh?

Still, there is no present alternative

For now, I shall continue to soar through existence while searching for an answer

An answer to Death
Kush Dec 2016
People always complain that an awful individual won’t their habits
that a human being’s moral wheel, if lodged into the dirt, shall remain there
This may be the most monumental of misconceptions

What if they really are trying to change?
What if they’ve already replaced the wheel?
Chose to go forwards on a new path?

Perhaps, the reason it seems that people don’t change
is that society is cynically unaware of forks in the road
unaware that everyone is just driving past each other
Kush Dec 2016
I wasn’t a prisoner of shackles and uniforms
I was a prisoner of self-doubts and hatred

No more tripping down memory lane for me
It’s about time to start strolling in the now

I’m on the comedown, getting better
decided to step out from under the weather

Silence was an old motto, long forgotten
I have a voice that booms about as loud as my mind nowadays

This big, blue world needs a dab of slow-motion
Plenty of necks have been broken by haste

Every watch and clock has been discarded
I mark every minute based on your giggles

It’s only after meeting you that I’ve started living
It’s only with you that I see myself surviving

Time is a commodity I have no worries about wasting
If I’m golden in your eyes, I’m golden forever
Kush Dec 2016
The moment I cut open my hand, fascination overtook every other emotion
Not because it was my blood but because of blood’s very nature
The crimson elixir surges through a body, firing like a piston between veins
An organic drum doubles for a maestro of this red symphony
Within skin, honed by the trials of time, a system of fluidity rages on
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