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The fields and houses smolder in the rain
The war has raged for so long
All reason for it has passed out of memory
Now ashes and charred bones
Are all that remain

The sound of thunder rumbles in the distance
But I know better
It is the sound of those ancient machines
That walked before the war began
And ever since have continued their march

Occasionally you could catch a glimpse of them
Through the smoke and haze
Great hulking constructs of a bygone age
Ever churning and grinding
Shaking the earth with every step

Perhaps these wars might end
If the masters of these machines
Were still around to stop them
For now their endless march will continue
On to the destruction of all mankind
Lets set sail
To the great unknown,
Where the future can change
And the present can unfold.
Lets set sail
To our grand denial,
Let us live another day,
Life is better when its vile.
Lets set sail
to the REAL unknown,
Where its better when you sink,
Than it is to stay afloat.
Lets set sail,
To our greater knowledge,
For there would be no boat,
If the shore was always by us.
Lets set sail,
Far far away,
So we can learn to survive,
There is no other way.
Lets set sail,
Let us learn,
Let us fail,
Lets. set. sail.
my heart is soaked in rain
its pain evaporates in the sun

my heart grows cold and weary
teary eyes melt the fears away

my heart shatters into a mosaic
in tragic art it rebuilds stronger

my heart burns fiercely at its core,
to forge my soul into divine humility
 Apr 2016 Ariel Baptista
Kenēn
It's just that I never tried
Filling water to a barrel
With a *******.
Futility, I should say.
That is quite true, expectedly true
Before I met you.
my thoughts turn hazy and cold
in a perverse sense of well being
in feeling not safe on this place called earth
where self-worth is a curse to behold
where my tears appear out of fear
and I submit that it's all in my head
that all will be well in this material hell
as the mystically spellbound
seemingly intellectual
festival of my dreams
and all that would be
seems to be free of misery
yet in loneliness
I stress my regression
from the lessons I've learned
because I yearn to be seen
to commit adultery of the heart
with the song of my soul
to let go of the past
and immerse in the glass half full
of pain and anguish to languish
that which attacks my reverie
too many thoughts
on this crowded elevator,
in my brain that is chained,
shackled by prior misery,
haunted by my adolescence,
cursed by the atrocities of my youth...

I'm vying for agony,
with fantasies of a noose,
a knot that slips the pain away...
for that pain must be cut loose,
before I cut lines on a mirror,
or lines on my arms,
to charm the legion of evil,
in their playground of my mind...

on the glass of my eyes,
they're always tapping...
tap..tap..tap...
letting me know they're still in there...
that they haven't gone anywhere...
no matter the pressure I apply,
with my spiritual cries to the divine,

they need to come out,
to eat a hearty meal...
so I try to conceal my zeal,
the lust to set them free...

but the more I resist them,
in this persistent reality,
the more they try harder,
to destroy me in my dreams...
I would like to tell you a story...

There exists a man.

He lives his life soulfully.
He has been called many things,
but he prefers to be referred to as a dreamer.

His heart he wears,
not so subtly,
on the tops of his sleeves,
for the whole world to see.

Though what he hopes to wear is a rarity,
something incomprehensible,
in this here reality.

His reverie is a complexity,
that those who are meaner might see,
as paradoxical insanity.

But he does not mind...

For he is chosen to hear a melody
of silent divinity,
that speaks volumes to his soul,
mystically whispering a hymn of

'everything is more than it seems.'

Unfortunately, there is a catch;
a web of illusion and fear...
and it is here he forgets,
the beat of that singing,
and falls back to sleep...
walking away from his dreams.

But then, an incredible scene;

Out of miraculous calamity,
he once again encounters the Being,
the identical flame,
who gently shakes him awake,
and he begins to recall,
the truest of Love,
and why he was made
and how he can see;

The treasure hidden within all of humanity.

Now in spirit again he sways softly...
In tune with the holiest of melodies.
The Greeks were, three thousand years ago,
just as advanced as we are now, you know...
why so little progression?
why so much aggression?
It must be the fear and laziness, universal...
As they head into the night
Darkness is their disguise
They roam about, spreading fright
Looking for victims to terrorize

Faces unknown, voices unheard
Leaving only dread in their wake
Mad, vicious and undeterred
Unhindered by the lives they take

Every night it's the same
Not a soul they cannot sear
Nobody knows our name
The great unknown fear
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