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1.4k · May 2013
reaper
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Paying the price
Of indifference
Sow a wind of despair
Unshed tears are innocence
When the reaper
Comes looking to share
Like proverbial sheep
Led to slaughter
Defiled,
By an iceingdeath touch
Vile ravens sweeping
Blood in the water
In fear
I use faith as a crutch
My soul is now bleeding
I've been written off
Death angels claws in my hair
Lay still in the dark
Try not to cough
Then remember l really don't care.   Hy
1.3k · Jun 2013
Beast of Baghdad
Henry Yarbrough Jun 2013
Oh ,tyrant king of Babylon
Have you come by any sense
Who wages war on sons of Zion
With inadequate air defense

Toy soldiers of the eagle
Will come as dogs of war
Their guise being benevolence
Their true gift blood and gore

So it seems your problem is oil
Not consummation of lnnocence
Go plant your people in thirsty soil
Then propagandize self defense

For you are the beast of Baghdad
Your very seed affronts Mann and his kind
Another  American jackal  gone bad
And oh, what a jackal did we find

Now we sit glued to a TV set
Watching the towers crumble and fall
When sleeping with despots ya get what you get
Just part of the cost when america stands tall. Hy
1.2k · Jun 2013
wolf
Henry Yarbrough Jun 2013
I live the lie
Of the direwolf
**** what must be killed
Spilling lifeblood
Without conscious thought
Stolen innocence,
Being stilled
Therein lies the essence
Of what it is to be me
You are sheep in evenessance
Packaged meat you be
Though we share
The same tortured soul
Is less than nothing to me
You are prey
I am control
Feeding constantly
So take your gift of intelligence
Know fear throughout the land
Running now would make a lot of sence
For the hour of the wolf is at hand.           Hy
1.2k · May 2013
starshine
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Once knew a girl
She was starshine
Near her grace
I did lose control
Knew deep inside
My  She never was mine
Look in my eyes
She has wasted my soul
She danced through my life
Without caring
Yes,she knew
She was just having fun
Listen ,you will hear
My heart tearing
I no longer walk
In the sun
That lifes  not fair
This is my understanding
My tears are the pain
Reesa never would see
So when you fly
Beware the landing
Or one day
You will be me.                   Hy
1.2k · May 2013
getting what you play for
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Getting what you play for
I's a stone cold fact of life
Knowing we're rotten down to the core
We find balance at the edge of a knife
Being ruled by insatiable need
Makes it hard to get through a day
The radio,TV,
the **** that you read
Say all is a game,so play
Slaves to our vices we exist in this truth
Now deal with the promises you break
Cause is effect, once the demons are loosed
And accounting for all that you take
For she that is karma will be avenged
Consequence Is hers to say
You won't make a day without being singed
When lies and deceit are in play
So listen and heed me I won't say this twice
Law of balance will have it his way
Woe,to the ones casting chance loaded dice
Fate will see that you pay.        .......hy
1.2k · Jun 2013
In his name
Henry Yarbrough Jun 2013
Children of fire and ice
See how you lost your way
For your dreams evil
Always  a price
Now listen,
What I have to say
In his name
We have canvassed such misery
It must cease
This rage on the land
Acid rain, just tears of a deity
Reaping the the east winds last stand
And for those who demand silver
In his name
Think ******* these things that you do
This idiot poet
May say all's a game
But life is an accounting
And my soul is stained too
This is the world
That we live in
Make no mistake
There was always a plan
And of this tired existence
choking in sin
Long dark is coming
YOU understand?       Hy
1.1k · May 2013
to be human
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
We are authors of such cruelty
****** violence unchecked
Physically, manifesting
The rot that permeates
the heart of what it is
To be human
*******, manipulation
Manevolance now defined
All life bleeds irrevelence
Since killing was refined.           Hy
1.0k · May 2013
another age is weeping
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Another age is weeping
Feirce the killing heart
No more time in grace
Let us  tear the age apart
False scent of fear blinds us all
Wish I could wish Mann undone
Demons and angels rise to the call
For the souls bleeding out in the sun
When those sworn to god spew lgnorance
What hope is there for the lamb
History lays bear our indifference
Of those who use god in their damm
Righteous or evil the point is the view
Contradiction I say it is not
Cry for the children the least you can do
Some would say we deserve what you got
There lies the question
With no answer clear
Stain of Mann is consuming the sun
If death is the lesson
Dance in the fear
Dream evil when kingdom is come
982 · May 2013
Beast
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
We are of supernova
Out of blinding
Wicked light
Starstuff filtered
By dreams of Jehovah
Was evolution
Evolved us the fight
From constructs
Of a periodic table
To the beast
That is modern Mann
Monkeys cursed with reason
And the need
To take all ya can
Don't  you ever wonder
Why you feel the way
You feel,
Calling down the thunder
When  one,
***** up behind the wheel
All of us feed the darkness
Ah, the voices in the head
Painting reality in madness
Makes us the walking dead.            Hy
937 · May 2013
i lost my way
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
I can still remember when
Your eyes drank of my soul
I think about us now and then
Of before we lost control
We took it all for granted
Played life, like a ******* game
But the seeds of sorrow we planted
Would put me in touch with my shame
I wish that I had been strong enough
But I ****** away my pride
You did teach me I wasn't so tough
What you did left me empty inside
Never will say this wasn't my fault
But you will hold some of the blame
Something's in life don't need to be taught
Like to  honour the children you named
Yet, somehow I just lost my way
And let them pay the price
I think what I have left to say
We should never have thrown the dice
900 · May 2013
Bleeding the lamb
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
American arrogance
Notwithstanding
Our benevolence
Being unfurled
Ego and influence
Ever expanding
Now we' re policing
The whole ******* world
My father was bled in Korea
Cousins slaughtered in nam
Now the prize is Judea
Tell me why I should
Give a God damm
There is no stopping genocide
Human nature is covered in blood
Take this little fact
Mix in some pride
Leaves Africa swimming in mud
I don't care
What they do to each other
I have two sons
So I don't give a damm
Tell me why
You think I should bother
We will always be bleeding the lamb.        Hy
899 · May 2013
kendra
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Never understood the meaning
A life spinning out of control
I stared in the face of the reaper
At risk ,my very soul
Once loved a girl who was fire
Realizing not what I had done
The child bore of our desire
A soul that would rival the sun
Just a name can't hold enough meaning
These feelings burning inside
Child of fire I will name Kendra
Of my blood, of my flesh , of my pride
I finally understand the meaning
It is the color, there in her eyes
When kendra Sez dad I love you
I no longer rage at lifes  lies.     Hy
812 · May 2013
seeds of discontent
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
The eagle that is american pride
Her talons do bring certain death
Have a care when choosing a side
Or you just may be on final breath
This raptor never bleeds for the right reason
Like the horror being waged in Dafur
Yet for oil this bird spews American treason
Trading out profit for the lives of the poor
Surely the  creator must have been napping
Letting technology kick through the door
All will soon learn resisting is nothing
Splitting the atom made U.S. god of war
So run little sheep as fast as you can
Cause the eagle she has taken flight
Bringing red ruin to the world on command
Out of darkness and into gun sight
Seeds of discontent only grow if you let them
This affront none will ever achieve
For this Harpy's Master none other than him
Open your eyes and hear the world grieve.     Hy
718 · May 2013
wages of sin
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Where will you go
There is nowhere to run
You have nothing to show
In a life about done
The choices we make
Treating life as a game
They steal and we take
And to hell with the shame
Yet the pale horse will catch you
You will stand before god
Tell me what will you do
Or do you think it odd
For your god to judge you
For the weakness inside
When it was his gift of freewill
That led to this pride
So I ask once again
Tell me what will you do
Cause the wages of sin
Are fast coming due.              Hy
693 · May 2013
feeding the flies
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Look into the night sky
And know you walk alone
The choices I've embraced
Bleed my soul to stone
In the night I scream deliver me
To a god who wont hear my cries
In a world of no compassion
The flesh of our children
Is feeding the flies
Do you ever sweat the difference
Of what is right and wrong
What Manson did to Sharon
Turn your eyes, just move along
I would I had made a difference
My shame being hollow inside
I will ask for no ones forgiveness
Life has been a hell  of a ride
I should say that I prayed for vengeance
To a god whose indifference is pride
Now what feel is just empty
And I need a place to hide.             Hy
665 · May 2013
eater of sorrow
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
I have the night
To make peace  with my deity
And the rage to justify the end
Eyes burn bright
In a society ,
That  spews hatred
As if no longer a sin
I dreamed I was
Blood of the wolf
Scent of decadence
Reeks the essence of Mann
The nectar of  innocence
I have engulfed
Storms out madness
In a blight riven land
For you see now
The eater of sorrow
Sipping at the tears of the lnsane
As the long dark gives
Way to tomorrow
Then I shall consume
mortal pain.             Hy



I have engulfed
585 · May 2013
just asking
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Is religion evolution's lynch pin
To feel safe in an unsafe world
The desperate longing of fools
At whose faith callas reason is hurled
With concepts of good and evil assigned
By those washed in the blood of the lamb
Zealot's screaming design divine
Never will they own who I am
Go now and preach of ****** birth
Of when oceans swallowed all land
Persecute the meek for all they are worth
And say it was done by his hand
Of  these things  I'm just asking
Cause I don't understand
Like do we exist after drinking of death?
Is jesus the lord or an unlucky man?
How can mortals strip a god of his breath?
Harvester's of lndifference is what we've become
Spitting out sorrow as if it were rain
Be it heaven or hell when kingdom is come
With no answer's the question remains.          Hy
565 · May 2013
chain of life
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Would I bleed you
To save myself
Turn and look away
Surrender reason
Up on a shelf
Paranoia...
what da ya  say?
The long dark is coming
I spit this out as fact
Rage the statas quo
Come the night of the jackel
Steel  ln my hand
Say me which way your to go
Their weapon religion
Their version of God
Agenda,
To own how you think
World oder looming
Do you find it odd
Chain of life
Will be  missing the next link.     Hy
562 · May 2013
dafur
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
See dafur and rage
Children's lifeblood
Wooden stakes
We live the killing age
Washed in evil men's  mistakes
Forgive us blood of lnnocence
Yet again we turn a blind eye
But of the tyrant king in Babylon
Devoid of any sence
For  his oil we burned the sky
I know what's right, what is wrong
Will never be setteled
In lyric or song
I have known this
All dark long
Go  bear witness dafur
And be undone.      Hy
555 · May 2013
providence of fools
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Your name creator
Benovolence defined
Lord of reason n lite
Proud servents of god
Destroyer's unkind
Oh,how we live for the fight
Want is nothing
When need is all
By,wrath of zeleots
All is undone
Trappings of power
At  their beck n call
A stone,to a sword,then a gun
Darkness is coming
Mann has lost his way
A truth con sealed
As good as a lie
PROVIDENCE of fools
Who is to say
Bear witness
Watch lnnocence die
How can the sun rise
On such misery
Blood words are promised
For all that's been done
When arrogance becomes
A weapon for me
Then we shall see
Who has won.             Hy
552 · May 2013
brother
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Brother how l've come to miss you
Been a while since we lay you to ground
I feel so lost but what can I do
Life was more when I had you around
I remember the time of our childhood
Now time has established control
We burned through our youth as fast as we could
Never realized life was digging the hole
Now I'm just drowned in this sadness
I miss your Witt and what you were inside
Sometimes I think we all dance in madness
Hope your with mother on the other side
If you see her tell her I miss her
I think soon I will be closing these eyes
And all that I am, and all that we were
Comes to nothing ,cause everything dies.        Hy
550 · May 2013
im sorry
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Woman I an sorry I hurt you
That you still hate me
This cuts deep inside
Please undrerstand
I lost something to
But young men
Often wash treason in pride
I can never take back the tears
Or the pain that is caused
When love dies
I never did think
The price of my fears
Would forever cost me these ties
Our true reason
Was the child of my fire
For her alone
I did give  u my heart
Yet life rarely gives
What we think we desire
Not even
As we tear lives apart
I won't ask for your forgiveness
I deserve how you feel about me
When all that we gave
Somehow came down to this
I'm sorry is all I can be.           Hy
544 · May 2013
War
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
War
I am war,
I am bleeding faith
Turn away once more
Indifference,
Is a killing grace
Whispering  misery
To innocence
Feasting at
Tears of despair
In untold numbers
The lives I have spent
To gift you
The death angels stare
I don't think people
Even realize
I was born
In the depth of their soul
Fading to black
Seething In lies
Being human
Is consuming you whole
Now listen at the weeping sky
Hear mother's raging
Watch children die
chaos being the stated goal    
Choke on war
Your share of the lie.            Hy
542 · May 2013
I dont understand
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Of all the things I don't understand
Art of war kinda sticks in my head
Impose the will of the lion
On the fear of all mann
Compliance means still just as dead
To the men washed in power
Just a means to an end
Yet,an agenda on blood all the same
Beware as you cower
Do not break as you bend
And know it is all just a game
Yes it seems all of mankind
Is addicted to war
What is taken is driven by greed
In searching for answers I don't wanna find
Behind the green door
I found the reasons we bleed
******, treason and black  genocide
These are but acts of control
And hear we all thought life was only a ride
Not a contest for our very soul.                  Hy
537 · May 2013
legion
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
listen now and heed me
Legion is thy name
Your hipocracy an affront to me
I will burn you all in flame
Go weep to your creator
Accede to what you get
Bereavement will come later
Endgame is now set
Cause animals with reason
Is all you've ever been
Your souls awash in treason
Your lives nothing but sin
Now here my split and bleeding voice
And know your *** is mine
Remember you once had a choice
Now you tow this line
Yes,you will name me legion
As I lay waste your soul
Despair is now the season
All will pay the toll.               Hy
535 · May 2013
when these dreams call
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
When morning dawns
And these dreams fade
No longer see
Your lovely face
Soft and low
Promises made
Where have you gone
Diamonds n lace
Visions of you
And angels sigh
I reach for you
And wonder why
I believe
You are my grace
When these dreams call
Your eyes the chase
Just to live
In your dark embrace
I would give my life
Give up this place
Can't you see
Your smile is starlite
Can you not see
You own the sun
When your not here
My tears like rain fall
I dream you near
When night is come.      Hy
531 · May 2013
all hope is lost
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Do you ever search for the answer
Are we truly so empty inside
When hate and greed breed like cancer
Our song of insanity is turning the tide
The blood of the innocent runs free
We are starting to lose all control
When people covet all that they see
A darkness consuming the soul
Know it is mine if I take it
That it was yours means nothing at all
Compassion we know we can fake it
If conscience just happens to call
As we step on the promises we make
Lies are all that you keep
Giving so much less than you take
Listen, and hear your god weep
People **** because they can do it
Consequence no deterrent at all
When all hope is lost
             Ya just gotta say ***** it
Wrath of god lay waste to us all.            Hy
517 · May 2013
ride the dragon
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
I the poppy
Grow in the field
I **** of profit
By law
A good harvest yeilds
So much for so many
I will take you to the wall
Ride the dragon
Once is for kicks
Can't do any harm
Buy me,sell you,live it up
Oh, now you stick needles in your arm
Reasons, needles
In a life that burns
Conscience  will not fit
Play hound my friend
When backs are turned
and feed the need with it
The evil without
Is now the evil within
This has always been the plan
I will never let go
Though you rage
And you shout
You never were much of a man.                  Hy
516 · May 2013
the long dark night
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Endless is the long dark night
Read death between these lines
Our choices being, ln black or in white
Or in the grey our conscience designs
I cadence we scream this song of our hate
The tears of the poor are still feeding the elite
Their passion for more they never will sate
As we drowned in this well of defeat
We live in a time shattered by chance
Details of our lives are so cold
The rich and the powerful continue their dance
For the rest you will never grow old
As government's **** for their share of the prize
Dogs of war are assuming control
They smile through your television spinning their lies
Oh, so slowly they piece out your soul
There's nothing left to say or to do
Final card already been played
Know that they own all that ever was you
Guess its true its just how we were made.     Hy
510 · May 2013
grace was the scent
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
I long for the the nite's
Your with me
Laid out in crimson
N lace,
Try as I might
Just did not see
My truth,
Was in your dark embrace
Morning is come
You left me
Grace was the scent
Of your hair
Trying to forget
Reminds me
Of all we are no longer
To share
I know it is now
I am broken
Love is at times
A messed up affair
Promises in blood
Have been spoken
Tell me how
I'm no longer to care.           Hy
497 · May 2013
i need you to see
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
O, woman why don't
You hear me
Listen, as i
Whisper your name
My cry is the nite
I need you to see
For me
This was never a game
These dream's
Just will not cease
Your eyes burn
Through my very soul
Can never find any release
Cause love is that
Which is never controlled
So I lie
Here to the darkness
The nite screams
She never was there
I need you to see
Nothing left for me
But for the woman
Who lived in my stare.              Hy
496 · May 2013
sons of mann
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Cry for the world in its madness
Cry for all that is lost
Sorrow gives only to sadness
Our children will bear final cost
Look at what we have become
Using innocence to feed the machine
With the **** of the earth about done
Sons of man are just ******* mean
Cause we live in a dance with the devil
Stained in excess colered need
It is the meek who are getting leveled
As the strong just feast in their greed
For in blood we have written our story
It seems we learn nothing at all
In striving for power and glory
Bleeding misery through the fall.      Hy
484 · May 2013
the devil is poet
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
What do you have faith in
What do you believe
There is no one you can trust
And in your dreams
You hear the screams
Of a life bleeding to rust  
When your so called friends
Have turned away
A soul just gathers dust
You need to have a look inside
And see what all is there
Wash away your foolish pride
And see no ones to care
The devil is a poet
He's got your number
And you have his no doubt
This is the way , we stay in play
Is what life's all about
So play the game
Let nothing slip away
You may go lnsane
Is what they all will say
Just play the game
Till all there is left to do
                     .........is pay.        Hy
482 · May 2013
tears on demand
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
This world is stained
In the sorrow of children
The lion devours the lamb
Even the righteous are choking in sin
And nobody gives a god damm
Betrayal's a keystone when something's to gain
Like despair bleeding tears on demand
Afflicting chaos and ruin like a summer rain
Just look what is done by our hand
I will tell what son's of Mann have achieved
Waging war on the backs of the meek
In their silent vigil the poor cry bereaved
While we tear out their other cheek
These are the details played out everyday
In a world going stark raving mad
For us to have a tomorrow,we must give this today
Yet we won't and its just freakin sad.         Hy
469 · May 2013
the cost of evil
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
You know the cost of evil
Is written in the soul
Evolution being the pathway
For the beast to assume control
We are but a throw of dice
A cosmic shot in the dark
Misfireing neurons drowned us ln vice
Left behind the cold stare of a shark
Yes all of us live with the darkness
Random elements this is what we are
We strive to hold back the madnes
Of knowing we are but dust of a star
So tell me how will you judge me
Your very nature is colered ln blood
Look deep inside and you will see
The cost of evil
               Is just all that is good.          Hy
465 · May 2013
where is the god
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Where is the god
They had sold me
To whom my mother
She taught me to pray
Through these eyes I have seen
So much tragedy
Ah,the world
She has gone so astray
I need to have this answer
Why all the madness and greed
What use in bleeding the dancer
We shall never
Fill all that that we need
And what has become of the righteous
In gods name untold numbers are slain
Yet the hollow words of the pious
Say how he feels the worlds pain
Where is the god
They had sold me
I fear he is gone in the light
Fool,open your eyes
Then you will see
He no longer cares for the fight.          Hy
459 · May 2013
love
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Love is not the answer
The emptyness inside
Rage against the loneliness
To sate a foolish pride
There's got to be the someone
One that is for me
Jeez, how the gods must be laughing
at the fools we've come to be
The love you gift your children
Is all that really counts
The rest is all just *******
Reality will pounce
So find someone you can tolerate
And run with this my friend
Cause all we are is waiting
Waiting for the end
They will tell you of a kingdom called heaven
One day your god might call you home
You may take these words as contemptible
       But I'd as soon
                    I walk alone.    ......hy
443 · May 2013
colered in lies
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
This life had left me so tired and old
I hate what I have become
The truth was in lies I bought and then sold
Now all I feel is the numb
I walked with the devil and didn't much care
So young I was playing the game
For whatever reason I chose not to share
Now all I have left is my name
In thinking about all that was lost
What was given to pay for the lie
Now I sit alone with the cost
Of chasing the need to stay high
Even as this dream gives way to despair
I feel I am coming undone
No longer fear the reaper's hard stare
No longer to blacken the sun
Peace comes with knowing endgame is near
Life begins severing ties
Keep faith with your god and you've nothing to fear
Just remember its colered in lies.          Hy
439 · May 2013
do you think god cares
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Sometimes I wonder about what isn't real
Do you know whose dream that this is
A jester in horns is looking to deal
And reality is what it is
Do you think he cares whose got it right
In a story that can never be known
Is Christian benevolence the way to the light
Lamb of god they will bleed you to stone
See Jews and Muslims in their blood dance
Over a god they will not understand
Life is just numbers played out in chance
And should not require faith on demand
So now I will ask what of your soul
It is said to be measured in grams
Strange how dam easy we give up control
Your religion will leave you in trance
I don't think god knows which reality is his
What did you give for the lie
Its like I said life is what it is
You will have the truth of your god
When you die.               . Hy
405 · May 2013
i know
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
She played me for a fool
Gifted her my pride
I swear the ***** was laughing
Her eyes told me she lied
Oh,yeah the wound went deep
My soul now screaming
Me out of this sleep
     To late,
I cry n cried,
My world came crashing
Down straight from on high
So don't tell me what you think I need to know
Cause I know,I know......I know.          Hy
391 · May 2013
i am lost
Henry Yarbrough May 2013
Where is the love
Life had promised
I am lost
With no one to hold
Somehow I missed
While paying the cost
What she was saying
Without being told
That it was me
Is my understanding
Her need to be free
Made her distant and cold
I gave her my love
It wasn't enough
Now my heart
Will pay out the toll
I am lost
And I don't really like it
Sadness is eating me whole
For just one more chance
I never will get
I  would trade what is left
Of  this soul.     ........hy

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