Once a young man

Filled up to his brim
Spending with every whim
More money than he could count

His heart ever so kind
Never leaving behind
Beggars or those in need

While all of his riches
Fullfilled other's wishes
The 'friends' devoured the bank

Now an old man

Spent all he could
Helped as he could
Now no longer can

No more to give

No more for them to take

As he begs in the street
His 'friends' run their feet
Never sparing him a glance

I wish I could do
Simple things
Hug a stranger who smiled at me
Give complements out of the blue
Profess my little crush

Dance and sing
Look like a fool
Dress up like one too

Prove myself
Without even having a chance to

What's stopping me?
Nothing
And yet
The stares do little to encourage it

Why hello there!
I want to point something out
Ever feel unextraordinary?
Cant seem to find
Something to set ya apart?

Everyone has one thing
No matter how minor
For instance
I can cheer any animal up

You can crush a can on your head
Or guess thoughts
Or know how anyone feels
Or come up with a joke on the spot

I dont believe everyone is special
Because, then no one is
But I believe
  Everyone is different
      We all have a special place in the world

What is our obsession
With time?

Supply and demand
Too quick to leave this land?

Our hour!
One Hour
Our Hour has turned sour

How quick are we
To lament the loss
While it is ever growing

We are losing Time!
Time cannot be lost
You can only lose
What belongs to you
Besides, what can be lost
That is endless?

Live!
Live!
Let it take it's course

But perhaps this cannot be
For as a society
We are only
Pulling our strings tighter!

Why?
Why do we prevent
Our own lives
It enslaves you from birth!
The laws
The laws
Have snatched us
With their jaws

Didn't we train those dogs
Better than that?

I think we all
Relate to two simple words
Why bother?

All our thoughts
Have been thought before
It seems like all our ideas
Have been taken

It's taken me a long while
To realize
There is no standard
We need to live up to
We set our goals
Impossibly high

Life in itself
Is the reason to live
Each life
Is a new way the universe
Is viewed

I suppose that is why
Death is saddening
It extinguishes
Another window
A mirror
Of nothing
Turned into a whole new
Reality

We say we cannot change
The whole world
Of course not
We can only alter our view
But that's something
Isn't it?

I woke up
In a brick circle
Golden leaves
With ruby veins
Falling from a bird cage
Up above onto me

Two great door appeared
I walked through
For with nothing else to do
Curiosity overcame fear

A polished voice
Echoed all about
As I stood on a leaf
Sprouting from a
Crystalline skeleton
It told me
Keep moving

I went on the path
Paved with all intentions
Lined with attempted interventions
Tales of failure and wrath

The road began to crack
Swallowed me up
I became a mist
Never missed
Yet the voice screamed
Keep moving

I, obliging, stepped to the pool
With indigo waters
And platinum daughters
Ever so frigid and cool

I swam down to the earth
Unearthed many a stone
To repave the path
To stone the statues
Cold and unmoving

I have done my trial
My song falls flat
Rabbit, back into the hat
Walking the path all the while

In my late night wanderings
On the endless virtual plane
I met a new soul

What a soul indeed
Whose words captured meanings
Akin to a vice

Who noticed the small things
Observations
That I didn't expect

It seemed to me
A delightful fellow
With intresting experience

The conversation flowed smooth
I left happy
I wish the same for them

What a new soul
A breath of fresh air
Simply nice

Barely a few years out the womb
Already they seek to entomb
To drag me by my feet
To fulfill the ends they seek

Riddle me this
With a flavorless kiss
Words whispered to my ears
******* away my human bliss

I want to be free
But they place me
In a numbers game
With many a name

Dear Lord!
With your empty words
I am a number on a list
Each contributing to this ever-growing cyst

Test me, test me
Let me see
"Learn what we teach"
I say practice what you preach
You leech

Government daycare
Slowly killing their clientele
The ones who came unwilling
Shackled in laws
Under scrutinizing stares
Of the systems eariler products
The ones who need to be molded
To fuel the ever growning hellfire

Turn The Wheel!
Be a Cog!

Our beasts of burden
Seeds for the next crop
Reaped, to grow our grain
To labor in vain
While we grow fat
Lard-laden

Why do we subject ourselves to this
When right in our grasp
Is bliss?

It'd only require
An amount most dire
Blood made green
Filled with rottings of evil hearts

A rip has appeared
The fabric torn
A new piece pit in place
Whole again

But sooner or later
It's more patch than not
The original
Long forgot

Then only thread
Patches of patches of such
Is it even fabric now?

People seem to think
Patches never fail
But it can't last forever

Some even try
To use patched patches
To fix another

But all fabric
Wears thin

Perhaps a common feeling
Or perhaps I am alone
To feel as if you're fading

A friend losing interest
A lover moving on
No words of clear rejection
Yet you feel it in the air

It feels as if you need to fight
To constantly gain favor
A filler presence

Many ways to do this
Laughter
Material

Keep them invested
Why do I need to try?
Is it true friendship?
Simply life

Look at the youth
Ever so uncouth
Yelling all the while

Look at the geezers
Asthmatic wheezers
Placing down restrictions

Our time is soon
Soon ends our noon
Teach the children our ways

Leave us be
So we may see
To find our own devices

I'd much rather
That you'd gather
And follow in our steps

Leave us alone
To find life's path on our own
Let us tend our own sails

We were never that dumb
We are not numb
In age and wisdom we improve

We will never be that dry
And yet with Time's sigh
The new are old
And repeat so bold
The words they sought to defy

There once was a well
Every year, one wish would be granted
Bestowed upon the first
To put a drop of their blood
Into the dark depths

A king with great armies
Conquered the sacred place
And claimed the well as his own

He alone could wish
To preserve his power and position

A thief observed
Through the crystal window
A tiny glass bottle
Where the king's blood will be stored
Through ceremony, dropped into the well

The dark figure mixes his blood
In with the royal *******
Then awaits his time
Soon to come

Down flows the two droplets
Mixed into one
The king feels odd
The rush he recieved
Is less
Yet, it is said
"Let my kingdom reign,
With me at the helm"

The thief
Recieving his power in turn
Graces the shadow's ears
With simple words

"Let it all fall,
And all it's powers
So we may be free"

With all my heart, body, and soul
Lone wolf I annul
Them I extol
No matter the toll

Together we stand
In many different ways
Holdin on to your hand
Till the end of these golden days

Some are short
Some will last long
Some are only heartbreak
Some never break

Friends, lovers
Who cares the type
As long as I
Stay by my rock's side

Don't you just love
The little bits of life
That often go unoticed

The feel of the morning mist
A stranger remembering a long ago encounter
Fresh peppernuts after sitting in the oven
The laughter of a quiet friend
The late night ideas of a sleep-deprived mind
When the one you love catches your eye
Being told a secret
The satisfying thump of an old couch being sat on

I really love these moments

How I love the breeze
The smell of other lands it carries
How I envy the birds
Creatures of flight
More often then not
I wish I could join them
Spread my wings
And be carried along with the wind