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Dan Hess Jul 2019
Emotion is a catalyst for dreams
Desire is an unmentionable ceremony
Frustration elicits response
The fact of the lie is godhood

Desire is an unmentionable ceremony
Lust begets catharsis
The fact of the lie is godhood
The creator is an irony

Lust begets catharsis
Admonishing is the truth
The creator is an irony
Everything is forgotten

Admonishing is the truth
The angels are crestfallen
Everything is forgotten
The earth turns to hell

The angels are crestfallen
The demons are but pawns
The earth turns to hell
The men turn to swine

The demons are but pawns
Of devils made by gods
The men turn to swine
Primordial reactions

Of devils made by gods
Frustration elicits response
Primordial reactions
Emotion is a catalyst for dreams
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Inconsequentially manifested
Proliferated; undefined, and unattested
Regurgitated, made to be insanity
-indeed- a redigested infrastructure
cannot save humanity
We have to be a family
To make our own prosperity
be proud to be what you refuse to see in you and me
And I can't breathe,
it's overwhelming to believe
what we achieve without further discretion,
no obvious direction,
time showing a reflection of infection
or a massacre or maybe just old age
but when we age we get weaker
and feel deeper
think we were more before
but I can see what we become
is an example of our past.

Who makes you who you are if you're always changing?
And where would you be without yourself?
What comes after death?
And is there a heaven or hell?
Or just a system of realities which are constantly rearranging?
And is there god?
What is the mind, and what are the odds that we exist as such intelligent creatures?
And what does life teach?
How do you define importance?
What does waging war solve?
There really are no answers; even while we're curing cancer countless lives are being lost.
And at what cost?
And where's the man in charge of all the death?
Where's my cut of the check?
Where are these dreams I was promised?
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Ironically
Your position
In industry
Is to listen
To those above
In hopes of learning
What is right
Ignoring lifelines, tools, and insight
Even though your heart is yearning
Independence, innovation, new products still glistening
In spotless eyes, through mystery
You only need to stiffen
Stubbornly, surreptitiously
You practice new autonomy
To lead yourself to mending lives once bound to ties
Of day to day, and by and by
A loss of life to society
Regulation bound by autonomy
Dan Hess Jul 2019
I wish to rest
In the cradle of your mind
And feel your perspective

From the inside out
And I wish
You’d see mine
So I could finally feel
Something is certain

I am cast upon a dream
To find a true connection
And become something
I can be proud of
But moreover, something
that will continue to grow
Even after my death, a legacy
To hold faith that the things you love
will continue to see and make things worth loving

I have forgotten prayer
And I fear insolence
For I fear I am un-pure
My very essence
I have deviated from a path, so long now
I have no faith in guidance,
for my fear is wrought in doubt
And I trust nobody

I share this pity with no man
In truth, I give them glimpses
But my aura cools, and it can sink
Still, weighing me down
Striking my heart with rods of steel
It has weighed upon me
This is not poetry
It is alleviation,
of words too long unspoken
God, I beg you, unbound me

Bless my aching heart
I just can’t fathom living here
With no rapport, and nothing
Stagnant air can bring about a heavy heart
I’m not feeling strong
So obvious, I call out to the dark,
Where nobody listens
If only a voice would soothe me
If only I could not fear to let down these walls

I don't even know what I'm doing
just meandering, aimlessly
eloping with my echoed soul,
my true companion
a voice inside me, which soothes,
and warms my heart

Who guides me, always, through the dark
And radiant are we, for lions break their necks
When we shall stand against them, unwavering
When we shall show them mercy
Even in pain, I remain my own man
And I hold a heart like gold
I swear it

Can someone just grab be by the neck
And kiss me
And remind me that I can love again
That the fire’s still burning
And I just need to breathe
And I can feel okay?

Could you imagine what it’s like to just become someone
And then to be that guy who used to be someone
And then your mouth’s on the barrel of a gun
And you wish you were back in that, time
You wish you could love, and have fun
Like you’re not anyone
And there’s nothing left to run from
So you just, let it end

It feels like ***, if I knew what that was like
But it’s more like I’m just floating, dreaming
I can’t think about the bad things
I just want to sit down and watch the world go by without me
It’s never been about me
I’m just lost in this place
But I feel like a wanderer
Now
It’s been so long

but, is there ever truly an eternal image of oneself?
Are we truly who we are,
or is this all just a clusterfuck of circumstance,
and thought, based on trivial, random experiences?
And what do I give a **** if my life means anything,
if I have to go through pain to find anything?
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Strange of you to measure fate
by way of every step I take.
When surely whether I trip or not,
I'll find the path goes ever onward,
and always get back up again.

What is this plight of which you speak,
and why does it daunt you so?
To where do you, too, disappear,
when your mind seems to go?

What is your sight, this dismal night,
and what wonder might it show?

Ah, but to know is to not know,
and in my mind, I am bound to the "although."
Without a doubt, it allows to me grow,
but I am lost in the lies I might sow.

Alas, there is no threat below,
as what reigns above should alleviate my woe.

Yet, my fate is sought,
and his is bought,
and I am transcended
by way of my thought,
and your view is concerting,
but ever diverting,
from what is but nature of rot.

Do you see what can be
of an old willow tree,
when a branch is newly planted
in the ground at your feet?

It is similarly true
of what you can do
with a concept all *******
and taught in your thoughts,
for your words are but seeds,
for a new willow tree,
or instead, are they branches,
maybe?

Water your tree,
and from words,
weave worlds of wisdom
within wistful watching eyes
of soft, metallic gold,
and you will learn
the ways of the souls of old,
and you will become what you seek.

Let the passion of eternity
drip from your tongue
like pure decantations of light.
Breathe in the winds of life,
and bridge the gap
that separates dark from light,
and cast your might upon the shadows
to form a picture,
then turn,
and from the cave,
walk into the light of day,
and gaze upon the open sky,
and feel alive, for the first time ever.

Like namers do,
practice an exercise in becoming you,
by seeing without eyes.
Let it go,
so the world can flow,
into itself, and continue to grow.

Then take a stand,
you are no ordinary fool,
no ordinary man!

To be as if without,
and take hardy in faith without doubt,
is as foolish a foolishness
as a fool can spout.

This is a journey without end,
there is no good found in the pretend,
so take your path,
and remember to laugh,
and take pride in the "rule of the bend."

To know you do not know,
is to allow yourself to grow,
but there is a reason
for the change of the season,
and sometimes
you just have to follow the road.

You must abandon identity,
to grasp the root of everything.
You are existence, and all is one.
There is no partition,
only illusion of separation
begat on subjective interpretation.
There is no divide,
until it is recognized inside.

See without eyes.

Choose to feel otherwise.

Everything will coincide,
as it has already,
and one must only open the mind's eye
to grasp the light
without finding themselves to be blind.
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Humans; label and categorize; nothing
Dan Hess Jul 2019
A shred of bliss lies only an eternity away
A catastrophe of blight
Reminiscence withholds dismay
Onset eternal night

The past contains a pain
By which we suffer in the present
But cursed is it, time's dreaded reign
No kingdom evanescent

A militant resistance
Will not end the loner's grief
No matter how persistent
His life is very brief
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