It’s like a test
And I’m failing
Falling into the abyss
Screaming out to no one
Oh lord
Won’t you save me from this?

To find yourself,
You must first lose your mind
Let go of materialisms,
Become defined
And not by your smile,
Your eyes or your skin
Become defined
By your passions w i t h i n
Free yourself from social constraints
Try living a day
With no c o m p l a i n t s
Head up, chin up, stand proud
No more living in  shame
I knew you were b e a u t i f u l all along
You just needed proper lighting
A mirror much less
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And now, that reflection b e a m s
That glint in your eyes
Always failed to hide
The power that you’ve been holding i n s i d e

Innuendo

All those softly spoken innuendos
Slipped into conversation
To express what you can’t say plainly
All these whispered innuendos
Helped him speak words
Painfully

Filling the night air
Breaking the silence
A breath, a heartbeat

She couldn’t bear
To let him see her cry
And as he turned
The first tear fell

Not as strong as you’d think
Not as brave as you’d think
Innuendos have formed a façade

And so they meet again
To whispers, murmurs
Those softly spoken words
Without the armor
Amore was weak

So for the first time
The last tear fell

A boy and a girl
Back facing back
And they knew
Not to turn around

Closure encompassing
Growing distances
Do or die
She never looked back

Comfortable as I am,
I can feel the silence.
It’s too intense right now.
I can sense a riot
In the making.
Rationale is slowly shaking
Out of everyone’s minds;
Senseless chaos will soon ensue
And slowly but surely,
It consumes you.
Kiss your morals goodbye
‘Cause nothing will get you as high
As running with the crowd,
Looting stores, shooting guns.
Enveloped by the loud
Destructive forces all around.
The small children cry,
But no one hears their sound.
Just look at what you’ve done,
We’ve started a war
That cannot be won.
With all this mindless violence, I ask
What exactly have you done?

Only ten degrees above freezing
But it's enough
Can you feel
The winter leaving?

No more snow
Or frost-bitten toes
To plague short-lived days

The sunlight plays
A little longer every night
And rises a littler earlier

The seasons change
Rapidly and unforeseen

Wake up one morning
To the warm gusts of spring
She's blowing in
Slow and steady at times
Fast and unpredictable at others

No matter how perplexing
The weather becomes
It manages to warm the soul

Even on icy cold mornings
At least it's ten degrees above freezing

At night time comes imagination,
A land of dreams- my destination;
Through nonsense, I shall form creation.
Get ready for the new sensation.

People always drifting
Into less successful lives,
But I have learned to live
A way that causes much less strife.

The music is my inspiration,
Its message goes out strong.
The meaning veers my from temptation,
Although I still see others doing wrong.

Wishin' I could tell them all
To grasp my outstretched hand;
But destiny would disagree,
They all have predetermined plans.

Like the children of the flowers,
We hold within a power
To understand the universe;
Complexities and fallacies.

We question our reality
While shape-shifters take new forms.
The delicacy of time
Needs to be forewarned.

The stitches are so fragile
When you no longer feel bound.
When you are free, you become agile
Like the breezes that surround.

Everything was warping,
Now everything's calmed down.
As I wake up to the sunshine,
I could never bear to frown.

My vision's become clearer.
I can see the end is much less nearer.
Forever I'll be strong,
For I've obtained the will to live life on.

The billboards advertise it;
The mental pollution
That's obtained in a New York minute
Is mind-blowing.

A fast-paced world bustles by
Outside a taxi cab window.
It's rush hour,
And the car horns scream pleas of chaos.

Busy bodies litter the streets.
As they dissipate, they are soon replaced
Like the car exhaust
That's always lingering in the air.