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Akira Chinen Jul 2018
Something don't feel right
something is coming down
something going on below
something...

has all gone wrong
and the bomb is about to blow
mankind went after nature
and thought he won the race
but the verdict coming in is
that we're all headed
for death row

now we all are wearing
masks of ignorance
pretending we didn't know
it was gamble every time
we picked between two evils
to lead us down
our long descent

we like to blame the snake
for all the fruit we poison
but we knew all along
we were sleeping
with the devil
while dressing up like sheep

ba ba the witch is dead
don't you remember
we bunt her for our sins
and ate all of her children
because we feared
they were descendants
of the wolf

yet we still think
we hold the blessing
of the glory of some god
as if our acts of treason
against the higher power
have gone unnoticed

our hands may be clasped
in prayer
but behind the curtain
we're watching war
******* mother nature
like a *****

imaginary lines divide us
from one another
as we volunteer to spill
each others blood
until the oceans overflow
with all our spoiled milk

the coastline is moving in
and Noah can't build an ark
big enough for our ego

we're going to have to start
believing in evolution
because we're going to need
some gills
and hope Atlantis is kinder
to us than we have been
to each other
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
Mary made a monster
mankind made a bomb

it’s all a fairytale gone wrong
we took the make believe
and made the horror real

history learned nothing
from all of that destruction
who forgot to read the book
that taught us our place
was not to play
the part of god

Mary made a monster
mankind made a bomb

the blood keeps spilling
as we still haven’t learned
that peace can’t be kept
by the threat and poor wisdom
of an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth

who can we pray to
and beg for forgiveness
for the hell we create
when by this point
we’re past knowing better

Mary made a monster
mankind made a bomb

we’re still not the wiser
as we repeat and repent
all of our sins
as again and again
we dress for the part
of playing god

and as the book ends
may the monster forgive us
for all the things
we have done
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
Silence is the song
of all that is beautiful
beyond the need of words

it is the light of knowing
the color of your heartbeat
in the dark of a soundless room

its the feel of everything untouchable
pouring over the song playing
in our bones

its the unwritten parts
of the fairytale
that gives away the secret
of knowing
when love is real
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
Beauty is not seen with our eyes
it is only felt with our hearts
and the truth of love
is the only beauty
we need find in this life
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
fading before my death
becoming a ghost
trapped inside
flesh and bone
and beating heart

and who was I to be...

before...

before I invited all this misery
to comfort me

who was I when
I once dreamed
a dream
that I believed

that love was the only thing
we need
to find our way

to the fields
below the stars of eternity
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
too often I need to cry
  but my eyes and throat
   refuse

too often I need to speak
  but my voice is lost
   and the moment
      passes

too often I am
  more ghost
   than
     flesh and bone
Akira Chinen Jul 2018
We send our children off to war
to make men and women of them
and too often

war

sends them back as ghost

both living and dead
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