Broken branches
Storm's reprieve
Greens turn
Browns leaves
Broken dreams

Lonely tree
Fallen breeze
Dying tease
Laying softly
Sleeping needs
Wasted trunk
Wormed whole

I hide behind a persona,
I hide behind a guise,
Everyone thinks they know who I am,
But im built upon leagues of lies,
My mentality is a paradox,
Personality is unknown,
Im surrounded by vessels of ignorance,
That have not witnessed how ive grow,
They see me as one thing,
When I know that im another,
Im seen as a being quite content,
When truly I toil and suffer,
But im happy with how im viewed,
Even if it is fictitious,
If im viewed as being gentle and kind,
Am I really vicious,
So if I just accept these views,
Will they change me truly,
Inside I may be a beast,
But to them I am the beauty.

Up on Capitol hill they must
have had their fill and
all are fast asleep.but
politic,fanatic,
the drones go on.
They're coming,they're running
the state and
we are next on the list.

The buildings in the city
Love to talk about
All the hustle that's within
And bustle that's without

Downtown people always
Scurrying here and there
As the buildings windows
Take on a reflective stare

Everyone around them
Always on the go
Not knowing where they're going
But staying with the flow

Not at all the least bit concerned
With other peoples lives
As they take another rung
On the corporate ladder of lies

If the buildings could they would
Try and help them out
They feel they're partially to blame
Since the city came about

When men all got together
To give progress a name
Not knowing this same progress
Would be their ball and chain

If the buildings only had
Warned some time ago
That most of what man attains
Leads to his downfall

Tied it up
so you could
untie it,
sweet face!

Anytime is a good time to show gratitude

in math class
and all we talk about is algebra
adding and subtracting
absolute values and square roots

when all on my mind is you
and as long as i add you to my day
it already sums up my week

but if you subtract yourself from my life
i'd fail even before the day ends
and i'd crumble faster than a
simple division equation

{j.m.}