Memories can be reclaimed from Chronos for a bit.
I know I should quit,
the past cuts sharper than a blade,
yet I stayed and strayed,
even if it wasn't an equal trade.

The insanity in your eyes was well concealed,
led to doors of tragedy not completely sealed.
You held a key around your neck!
Somehow I enjoyed being around you---HECK!
I could never leave a wreck.

Self-inflicted wounds from the past always last,
even as I glanced passed them fast.
A camera is a double-edged weapon not a toy,
my eyes bleed with misery and joy.
*Am I destined to be only a lonely boy?

Tonight without a thought, I ran in the midnight.
Wrong from right was just black and white.
I found reason to be a liar too many times before.
I ignited something too hard to put out, an inferno!
The night grew as long as my life and I was lost...

I became everything I hated and feared,
my name I smeared.
I let myself down by running the town,
More reckless and thoughtless I wore a crown!
The pavement soon turned into a road...

Fell off the highway into a ditch,
I didn't even twitch!
No where to go, I pretend to die.
I knew this was just another lie.
*My shadow caught up to me by morning and I sigh.

Today I went out...
felt the wind touch me with doubt,
no feeling in my heart even with a shout,
either way I still played the role.
Smiled to an existence out of my control.

Life continues with or without you,
the light stolen from my eyes,
the touch numbed by cries,
my hope was to become wise,
but everyone dies.

Love* is the most powerful force of all...
wars* are created until we fall.
The heart is made of glass,
past love cuts deep into us,
only severed memories remain to discuss.

Love decays in the mind,
maybe we go blind?
Consumed by work we forget the word,
lines between love and hate become blurred.
Only love can escape and bring *death.

Trapped in the routine,
we become mean,
forget about our kin.
Nothing matters until we win.
Final moments become eternal regrets.

Isolated, alone and without a cry,
that is how she chose to die.
Diamond, the dog who did not say bye.
Death may be silent...
but the trail of sorrow is so violent.

As light from the eyes fade,
an all too familiar shade,
even corpses resonate past love,
time helps memories shove,
in our youth we are immortal!

You promised you would never become them.
The ones who hurt us the most,
now all you do is boast.
I guess you kept the promise...
you were the worst of them all!

Every day you kicked us out,
I wandered all night without a doubt...
the streets were warmer, quieter and safer.
Your whispers shouldn't be so deafening,
your stare filled with hate after taking us in.

One night you confessed to me a horror,
I never wanted to play the Priest!
Your twisted mind called us all The Beast!
You call it love but you only leak rage,
used to your abuse I became numb in your cage.

Switching family for strangers,
trading safety for new dangers,
I lost my mind too many times to care,
after all its only fair,
drown in your despair.

All the world's a stage
as I age without a wage,
In all my rage
I realize I'm in a cage,
I fail to turn the page.

Another day lost in this reality
arrested only by morality,
have I gone too far?
Time makes another scar,
deep and infected.

My vitality is only clouded by you,
driving again with no destination again...
Wanting to be part of something new.
I'm given another cue,
flawless and without hesitation I continue,
on this strange play called LIFE.

The perfect man does not exist,
but he does persist.
I wander the realms of the unknown,
only to find my clone.

I do not exist in this reality.
No one knows me... I have NO mortality!
I break hearts,
I fake arts.

If you want me to vanish,
Banish me again only to punish,
One day I will return the favor,
And then you may ******* bravery.

May your days be as brutal as mine futile,
love is lethal,
love is evil,
**love is everything and nothing.

A raven once said "hate doesn't equate direct hate"...
you might just be bait,
could it be your trait?
In this world nothing is guaranteed,
the human race is but another ****!

Another crying child!
No matter!
They arrive in the wild!
Left to fend for themselves in a world unknown...
Just remember they are grown.

I'm part of the unemployed youth,
it's the truth,
a generation of dreamers with endless ambition,
all with one mission:
to strive for attention under constant tension.

Overprotected and neglected,
yet somehow connected,
attacked by the constant barrage of words,
we fly like birds,
we are truly free in our imagination.

No hope for a better tomorrow,
in love with sorrow,
nothing left to borrow.
Money comes at a high cost,
your youth...lost after slavery to the economy.

Always* had a longing for belonging,
never *fit in anywhere,
a criminal in my mind,
a vigilante against myself,
protecting even the past I left on the shelf.

The battle is violent,
overdosed by reality... silent.
Neglected and ignored describe my existence.
No guilt, no shame and nothing to hide,
reborn stronger than ever now I stride with pride!

Photos are fragments of time,
never meant to exist,
parables of the past become a talk.
Do you get the gist?

A sorrowful and joyful experience,
as you gaze at your life,
from another view.
We're all animals in a cage,
clueless and content.

In our fragile existence,
one thing is secure:
A mark in time at our final hour.

Enchanted* puppets created for misery.
Born out of flesh,
the minds were fresh,
distorted in a land of illusion,
Rotting figures out of twisted confusion.

Used and abused,
just fragile spirits,
questioning nothing in this reality.
Existence without a design,
set in a shrine of compulsory pain.

The shackles broke as they spoke,
now free like other folk.
Addicted to pain and drama,
they languished without the anguish.
They sought new strings that inflict trauma.

A number so symbolic,
13
I frolic with the past,
I have a blast!
How can one number torture me so harshly!?

Anywhere I go I instill fear,
I sneer at the thought.
I look into my magic sphere...
and nothing is ever clear but one thing.
**13!

Note to mortals wandering in the dark:

I put my life on the line,
when I had one...
this was a sign,
then chills went up my spine,
I cringed at just the thought of you!

I got stabbed in the back,
I was just your snack.
I always knew zombies and vampires have friction,
but I thought it was all fiction.

Night creatures do not play in the sun,
they do play in the moonlight.
They feast and gorge on your flesh as they bite,
while they grip on tight.

Do not wander late at night,
*they will attack on site!

There once was a tree of hope,
all people did was mope to cope.
No one changed...
chaos and insanity ensued our souls
and we took our roles.

One took the role of martyr,
another chose be the darter
and the last chose to be the barter.
SHE chose to trade my soul for false love.
My melody only resonates suffering.

I was the martyr by choice,
sadly I had no voice.
Every day I roamed the night,
I did it all out of spite...
one day you will see the fight.

I confided in you for aid,
afraid and alone you let me fade.
I'm a neglected flame you could not tame,
you ignite the blame again...
different people play the same game.

The world is infected with greed,
since birth it's a disease we don't heed.
The only cure is a double-edged sword... money.
Blue blood and water run through Earth,
yet both will dry for all their worth.

No one has a true clue,
everyone in an endless queue.
Life always has two views,
the unseen and the known hues.
The Blue Planet for the senseless suffering.

Galvanized hearts make up my past,
I wandered through perils that passed,
only found dread and despair.
This is my lair,
one of lonely existence.

Care to join on my endless quest of misery?
There's room enough for two!
None will pull the trigger,
to find the barrel empty...
Alas the days wane empty like me.

I'm a walking dead man,
a zombie crawling through existence...
What is life after all?
Honesty makes people cringe.

Life is a roller coaster we ride in the dark,
no one gets a walk in the park.
A war in our mind filled with hate,
the  unknown never ceases to wind our fate.

We all have one sure destiny,
DEATH.
Born to die but don't cry,
just don't ask why.

I am only a thought,
a name,
a figment of your imagination,
thank you for letting me exist.
~Ito~

Nowhere near the light at the end of the tunnel,
I poured my sorrow into a funnel,
I wander in desperate dread,
only to find the dead.
After the storms of time,
pain inhabited me like I'd been guilty of a crime.
Darkness and confusion set into my soul,
I came back haunted but whole...

Somewhere lurking behind,
the broken thoughts of my mind,
They long to be forgotten...
descending into oblivion and rotten.

Old memories are like ghosts that haunt you,
No one can resist it but it's true.
Pacify the past with the present,
forget the present with the past,
the unrelenting future torment that I ask.

If there is a past, present and future...
gaps in time must exist like a suture.
You get the deal?
Nothing is real.
No one knows anything at birth or death.

Your thoughts finally materialize,
as you realize:
time has little pity,
sure you were pretty,
memories are fragments of time that are witty.

I gazed into Pandora's Box,
went blind from the clocks.
Would you dare do what I did?
I was just a kid...
No warning for the mourning of my innocence.

No mortal should ever view,
I will never be free... this, I knew.
I could not flee this time.
I left my sanity on the shelf,
I committed a crime unto thyself.

Heed my warning:
RUN RUN RUN!
Knowledge is not fun,
Locked in a tower of misery for eternity.

If you thirst,
do as you must,
you have been warned!
~Ito

You* never made me *feel safe,
left me out in the street like a waif!
Receiving nothing but abuse...
you must have felt like Zeus!
All I ever wanted was a truce.

YOU always scavenge through my past,
sure it was a blast,
you should have just asked...
I protect you from the truth,
I'm just another wasted youth.

YOU just had to know,
it was the lowest blow.
I will never be the same...
I drank all of the blame,
surely you have no shame to maim.

I've always asked myself:
Will I grow up to be a good person?
Or will my condition worsen?
Will I ever know?
What is it like to grow up though?

Now I tell myself:
Trapped in this body,
I feel so gaudy,
I wish to disembody,
I feel so *****.

I will ask myself:
Did I live enough time?
Was I ever in my prime?
Am I even worth a dime?
And so I rhyme...

Only time can tell who I become,
Yesterday,
Today,
Tomorrow and **Forever.

Winter stopped hearts in all parts,
cold shoulders topped the charts!
It's as if the world stood still forever,
someone hit the lever.
Water had never been so clever.

Ice, a master of chaos on the roads!
Cars changed into curling stones,
shovels became part of your bones,
animals transformed into statues,
eyes could not shed a tear.

Salt flees from your tears,
thoughts shrouded in fears.
An eternal winter so brutal,
it crystallized people's very existence,
icy souls now reside in Chicago.

Rotting* flesh in the night,
your eyes resonate a dead light,
Your soul vanishes at the sight!
The scars in your black heart will never mend.
The venom you inject through your friend,
turns into a trend.

Love converts to hate,
false innocence turns to vengeance,
beauty fathoms conscience,
purity transforms to perversity,
after all it's only diversity.
As the suns flee you run into Hell's Arms.

***, drugs and lies are still cool while you're dead too!
Pleasure is the harbinger of eternal pain,
forsaken ever since birth...
your predestined soul now has initials and a stain,
The Devil got cheated with your worthless soul,
unquenchable thirst for victory.

No longer in control of your will!
A high bill that takes skill!
Well you longed for it now bawl!
Crawl as you continue to fall!
Death is the prize!

No rest for the wicked,
no rest for the insane,
no rest for the haunted.
Only the dead rest.

This world belongs to the Devil...
How do I know?
Do you want to meet him?
Just stare at the eternal emptiness in my eyes...
he surely visits often.

I,
a *daemon,
lurking *in the shadows of life.
Married to eternal strife...
I broke the shackles again...
only to come crawling back to pain.

Misery,
A dark beauty, the most jealous of them all!
I heed to the call.
She forebodes insanity and pain,
I have nothing to gain,
somehow I'm still sane.

I woke rapid to no avail!
Found the vapid conversation grew stale...
paralyzed by my fears,
endless ringing in my ears,
conscience begins to smear.
Shrouded in the stains of time.

Kind thoughts vanish,
torture runs rampant through my body like a bind.
Nightmares are ceaseless in my mind,
insanity does not flee.
All bets are not on me,
my mind leaks horror once more!

Promises* are meant to be broken,
the heart is *never meant to be shattered,
you let me down,
you saw me as a clown,
now I own the town's crown.

For wherever you go there is betrayal,
I am pale,
your love is fatal,
but I am grateful.
The days bleed and go by,
you will cry,
you force me to scry.

Stay atop your spire,
while I admire,
I thought you had a lyre,
I realized you were a liar!
You were blinded by greed,
so take heed as I speed...

I die in a realm of agony,
where one rules with money.
I was a dark angel,
caressed by the darkness,
I was blessed.

Love... does not exist,
but it does persist.
The plot has a perverse twist!
My life was in danger,
forced to become a stranger.

I am a tortured soul,
perhaps a demon calculating a goal!
Trapped in this body,
I feel shoddy...
Just another eternity of melancholy.

Emotions do not exist in my domain,
I simply drain where I reign.
Nothing exists only pain.
No rain ever falls here,
I confess...I am a **seer.

If profanity is a form of insanity,
then all of humanity is in love with vanity.
Just another delusion of illusion,
in a rampant act of seclusion.
Talent is standard on a planet of confabulation.

Nothing is real anymore,
there is a war at your core.
Greed is the seed we breed,
hence the human race in which we speed!
We play games of hunger while we bleed.

Humanity is just an art form,
unfinished and diminished.
We are blessed with stress,
without our consent we play chess.
I confess my address...

-Earth-
**Motel for our souls

I have the hardest of hearts,
love does not exist in these parts...
there are no new starts.
I reside in a realm of guilt,
this is where I wilt.

I know thyself,
I have flaws.
My kingdom has fatal laws.
Run!  For I am no hero!
I am prince of endless solitude!

A heart so dark,
no one can start the spark...
Hearts galore in my jar of hearts.
Perpetual darkness ensues,
for there lies a black hole in my heart!