Be grateful for you are blessed,
These words on my body are permanently etched.

I guess I need an everyday reminder,
to stay thankful even when life looks bleak

But how can one not be momentarily consumed by greed?
When our world is full of "I need" "I need" "I need"

The Desire for Power, the need to Lust
can turn even an honorable man into a psychotic nut

The temptation is there
The opportunity present
but would a sad rich man give it all up to be a happy peasant?

Mistakes will be made
Opportunities thrown askew
I wonder if this applies to you

To Thine Own Self Be True

I do not deserve the love that you possess,
but what else can I do but ask for forgiveness?

Realize that the romanticism is not a ploy,
and I do not think of you as a ****** toy

A rage-struck animal did overtake,
a ghastly horrifying sort of make.
But that one night is not me, it was a mistake.

Unable to change the past,
this is why I lost my freedom by karma's chance
I wish to erase that moment, but your mind wouldn't
I never knew you were such a talented woman.

I've never cried from reading
but now I have
your pen cuts deep
it's worth your lack of sleep