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nico papayiannis Feb 2016
And again the guillotine comes down, another head lost to another bucket of oblivion
Staring into the void that is your wasted lapse of time on this unchartered course, the last sound you hear the gilt edge of freedom cutting the toxic air,
No sooner had you got used to being here then someone deems your involvement unnecessary, your efforts and contributions, see them judged as pointless pathetic diseased and dispossessed
You have no way to eradicate emotions , no way to retrieve the ambitions you sought, hands have been shaken and signatures signed, no bribes will be tolerated and your time will come
Its not your life that flashes past your watering eyes, but visions of what you once thought your life could be, an instamatic cheap photo of a destiny of diluted dreams
You can curse yourself, your childish complacency, you can blame your over rated ego and its desires for leadership power and profit , it was you who disembarked at the station named , Excessive Greed,
Who is to blame who is the ref in your game
There is no hand of fate just you and all that you dictate
Life is a choice , it is yours you can fly with the angels or sleep with ***** ******
nico papayiannis Aug 2016
You dont know me but you do owe me
So much you have taken as your gluttony prevails
With your eccentric equation of equilibrium you have always tipped the scales
You dont know my name
And I care not for your alter ego that searches for fame
A fancy parade
For all the lies you have made
The crowds that stand and watch, hold hands tight with misery
As you smile and wave with your piety
You dont know me, but you do have a good idea
You're fully aware of how this life has been constructed amidst the constraints of fear
Of social segregation
Funded by financial manipulation
You dont know me and know nothing about how I want to live
You certainly know though , how much I give
How hard it can be, none of your concern
The ways of the common man you will never learn
You dont know me, but I know you
I can see all you are failing to do
nico papayiannis Mar 2016
you never knew that you helped me to breathe
you never knew the day you decided to leave
that I lost a piece of me.
we spoke, it was nice,
it was a bit too late,
your life and your thoughts
you would always complicate
you never knew the importance of who you were
you lost your way,
lost the love of your children
and eventually lost the will to exist
you never knew my kids,
but then you never really knew your own
it hurts to think
you never really knew how I cried,
how I felt so alone
you were never there
you never offered guidance or some words to help see clear through the crazy days
you certainly knew though that your gift of nothing became the greatest gift received
I loved you
I told you
soon after, you died
but not before I felt your pain, and sat with you as you cried
nico papayiannis Sep 2016
Don't despise
Just realise
Open your eyes
Open your heart
Clear your mind
Fear not
What you may find

Don't despair
Don't ever think
No reason to care
Draw a line
Through your negative
Watch it turn
Into a positive
Don't dive head on
Into the blues
The life you lead
Is  a life you choose

Don't relinquish
That hold you have
On your one special wish
Don't give in
To the perpetrators of sin
Those who seek
To make you weak
Make you toe the line
With their unintelligent design


Don't cower to your knees
Don't perform just to please
Don't subscribe to a social disease
The constant stream
From the internet team
Not to be believed
Don't be deceived
Don't consider yourself
Unworthy of life and its glory
Experience and enlighten
To become your own story
nico papayiannis Mar 2016
You say you want me
But you don't come and take me
You say you need me
But you don't lean on me
You say you love me
But when did you last tell me
At the crossroads we divide
Everyday you run and hide
Together we are , yet alone I feel
The warmth we had has turned to cold steel
My heart aches as your heart takes
Another shot at my insecurity
This cant be the beginning of the end for you and me
Unseen is my plight
I seem to just fall short of your sight
nico papayiannis Feb 2018
You see
You turn
You run
You hide

You wince
You wane
You cannot handle
Your own pain

In dreams
In desires
In hypnotic
Translucent fires

The answers to the truth
The reason to exist
But the anti- hero to another
Who shall forever resist

You cower
In fear
Of all
You hear

The neon night time beacons
Their white noise weakens
You break
You accept
But there was a point
You needed to reject

You see
You buy
You wonder why
nico papayiannis Feb 2018
I am here and you are there
Between us there really is no reason
To care or share
You have yours and i have mine
A simple arrangement that works fine
But soon your ways
They blight my days
They impose on my freedom
Causing me anguish and pain
Your irrelevant ideals
Swimming in the insane
Your demands are not met
Anger I detect
Aggression comes next
As you try to define your reason
But towards the stability of humanity
Your crime is treason
All you perceive
It can be all that you are wiling
To believe
But with narrowed minds
And blinkered vision
We shall continue to destroy
The dream of unity
And any peaceful transition

— The End —