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The madness of money,
exploiting the human mind.
Never enough money,
never enough time.

The disasters of our time,
the result of natures resistance.
Rebelling against mankind,
Mother Nature can be persistent.

And while we watch the tide,
slowly go and rise,
we must remember, it won't be long,
till we are all gone.

Tornados and hurricanes,
wind whipping cyclones.
Heat waves and solar storms,
disrupting cell phones.

Landslides and flooding,
from torrential downpours.
Forrest fires and blackouts,
from ruthless lightening storms.

Some may say the sky is broken,
some may say the sky is crying.
This is natures rebellion,
Mother Nature is dying.

But our motive right now is money,
and nothing will stop our addiction.
We will pollute this world till the skies are black,
and when we do, there's no turning back.

Let the gaping hole in the ozone layer,
grow until it's big enough,
to burn our Earth down to the core,
till we are ashes, nothing more.

Mother Nature has sent her warnings,
Mother Nature, wish us goodbye.
Mother Nature will slowly die,
and nothing she does can change our minds...

We will destroy ourselves for money,
we will commit,
without knowing,
our own suicide.
Copyright Barry Pietrantonio
If I had,
the words you possess,
I would take them,
and clean up this mess.

But I have no control.
I was a toy and now I'm sold.

Orchestrate,
seal my fate,
claim you hate,
what you can't see,
you can see me.

Slicing our love,
slicing an atom,
you drop the bomb,
under a setting sun.

A fire burns inside me now.
And no one can put it out.

You feel,
what I feel.
Tell me,
is this real?

Slicing our love,
slicing an atom,
you drop the bomb,
under a setting sun.

You smiled,
as you walked away.
I loved you,
in every single way.

You slyly slipped me the poison,
before I could run.
Next time, do me a favor,
make it quick, use a gun.

You smiled,
as you walked away.
Copyright Barry Pietrantonio
Do you remember
When we were just stars
Dancing in the sky
Shining bright for the universe
And wonder of its beauty

Yet one day we knew we'd fall
Right through the clouds
Of a planet that nests lovers
Like you and I
Yet so much different

They boast of passion and pain
Hunger for love
Unlike the stillness we have above
Their fire burns us and we yearn
To be like them

And so we did
Become man and woman
Bearing beating hearts
Like fire flicking skyward
Yearning for some depth in height

Yet we never knew
How heartbreak crushes us
An other worldly feeling
That compared death to a friend
Shattered like the asteroids that wandered endlessly

Do you remember
When we were just stars
Falling into earth's grasp
Our lights flickering dim
Replaced with hearts that burned

Burned like the torch of a sun
Rooting deep into veins of passion
We are reborn into a world
Of love and most of pain
Without regret of ever becoming beings of love
When I close my eyes
I can see you die
I see you take the last fatal blow
In the pain you're paralyzed
And there you lie
Your blood spattered on the ground
You take your final breath without a sound

When I close my eyes
I can feel remorse crash over me like a tidal wave
Because it took every ounce of my strength to be brave
To believe you would survive
You always did, every single time
You'd fight back
You promised me that

When I close my eyes
I can hear you calling my name
I swear I hear you say
"I'll be alright, love, I'll be okay"
Why didn't you stay?
I'm broken beyond repair
And you're the only one that cared

When I close my eyes
I can smell the flowers laid on your grave
There's the epitaph, written under your name
"A son, a father, and a friend
Gone but never forgotten"
You were my hold on reality
Without you, I've got nothing

When I close my eyes
I can taste the salty tears that fall like rain
The only way I can express my pain
You're still here
You've got to be
You promised me you'd stay alive
You promised me.
"You're playing him
You don't feel the same
He's gonna get hurt
And you're to blame"
That's what they all say

But they can't see
There's so much more to this than me
For once in my life
All I care about
Is making you happy

Maybe it's true what I'm doing is wrong
Maybe it's true I've loved you all along
Maybe it's true that you don't know what you've got
till it's gone
Maybe it's true there's nothing I can do
To make things between us the same

This is my fault
I shouldn't have kissed you that day
But I can't undo
The horrible things I've put you through
Please forgive me
For pretending
For making this fantasy
Of a world with only you and me
Sometimes I wonder
If I imagine the way you look at me
It's like thunder
Rolling through the clouds
Making me doubt
That you ever cared for me

You're bringing me down
You're pulling me under
You're making things harder
Than they need to be
I just want to live happily
To break free
From this curse you cast upon me
But you've got me in deep
Deep in your trap of insanity

I should've seen it coming
I should've read the signs
But I was caught in your loving
I knew better you wouldn't always be mine
It was all so ovbious
Why was I so blind?

Now I can't breathe
You've got me so far under
I need to leave
But you've got me in deep
Deep in your trap of insanity

— The End —