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241 · Nov 2019
I’ve been having dreams
Roman Pavel Nov 2019
I’ve been having dreams
Like long lost strolls on moonlit beaches
Where the waves erase past steps
To make you forget your way
Struggling to find a path forward
You’re guided by misaligned stars
They flicker in the distance
And blanket the world
Only the moon serves as direction
The water rolls to the tips of your toes
As It caresses the beach
I can’t stand still
As the sands of the beach
Slowly swallow my feet.
I must move forward
In the deafening darkness
Of the oceans tumultuous tirade
I only feel the sand loosening beneath my reality
I only see the moonlit path
Separating the waves from the floor
Shimmering of the tops of the crests
And Glittering from the reflexive gems
Sparse among the endless floor
I hardly know where I’m going
But know less why I started
And know nothing of where I began
In search of endless meaning
Gripping for due north
I float forward, or backward
On the river of time.
Foraging for truth
I wake up

And nothing has changed
Life is a lie, we live in a simulation
236 · Jan 2016
Disdain for the day
Roman Pavel Jan 2016
I have great disdain for the light of the day
Oh how I plead the sun shall go away

2. The world around is much too bright
And every speck is seen in perfect sight

3. In the day, there is no mystery, there is no danger
There are no heroes, there are no strangers

4.The light illuminates each crack on the street
And the flaws in everyone you meet

5. For the day is dedicated to the labor
The workers hand in hand with neighbors

6. In the light we toil through the same routine
Just a small part of the big machine


1. I much prefer the darkness of the night
And bask in the shadows of artificial light

2. For the shadows, they lie in between
Where the darkest of corners are never meant to be seen

3. In the night, there is a history, a story changer
An ambiance of impending danger

 4. And in the dark, the streets are paved with desire
Our passions personified, ignited by fire

5. So into the night we venture in sin
Impatiently wishing for the adventure to begin

6.Because in the darkness we are all free
Masked by the shadows from the people to see



7. So as the sun reaches it’s greatest of height
I go inside to await the embrace of the night
For the truth hurts too much to stay
I have great disdain for the light of the day
Read it both going down
Or by # : 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, and so on… leave 7 for last
215 · Nov 2023
Perfect for me
Roman Pavel Nov 2023
How mundane the world must be, if everything was in perfect symmetry
How boring is life, if you never encounter a moment of strife
Please try to explain, how perfection is not mundane
I much prefer to see, only one floppy ear on a collie
As if they can hear, better from only one ear
And all the perfectly pretty people, well they look like sheeple
I like the way the branches grow on a tree, as if it was made for only me.
And only the tree knows, where it’s branches goes
I love how your socks never match, how onto my right arm you latch.
I like your left eye far more than your right. Because when we lay, that’s the one that looks at me at night
For all your imperfections, you may think I don’t love thee, but the truth is, you’re perfect for me
175 · Feb 18
Consumed
Roman Pavel Feb 18
You are neither the stars
Nor the sun
Or even the moon

To me, you are everything.
The distance between it all.
169 · Apr 2023
(Song) Find You Again
Roman Pavel Apr 2023
At the edge of the worlds loneliest ocean
On a distant beach in the sand
Amongst the tumultuous tides and Commotion
… that’s when I, find you again

At a dangerous desolate mountain
In the dark deep cave of despair
Amongst the snow and shadow fountain
… that’s when I, find you again

In the cold and hollow forest
On top of the tallest tree in the deathly grove
Amongst the dying birds who gently chorused
… that’s when I, find you again

In the steaming and scorching arid desert
In the dreadful dune of our mistakes.
Amongst the coldblooded creatures that can’t get hurt
… that’s where I, find you again

In the end, I find you again.
140 · Jun 2023
Hauntingly Beautiful
Roman Pavel Jun 2023
Your phantom touch wakes me from impatient dreams,
As darkness fills our hollow room,
And although empty my life seems
Your silhouette is vibrant within this gloom

My eyes stay fixed, till the break of light
My heart is nixed, my soul takes flight
As our apparitions float through the thick night air
We may dance again, and you can hold me with care

We may gaze into each others depths, beyond peering piercing eyes.
My eagerness of your Soft silk touch
Is merely an illusion in disguise
But still I rise, yet still I rise
In remembrance, of all that you comprise.
#love #loss #lost #phantom #ghost #dark #deep #depth #dreams #dance
138 · Nov 2023
(Song) No Mystery
Roman Pavel Nov 2023
It ain’t no mystery  
Making music throughout history  
We just get together! Jam forever  
And let the music playyeahYeah!  

Feeling alright, gonna dance tonight  
Shake my body right, and let my soul take FLIGHT!  

It ain’t no mystery  
Making music throughout history  
We just get together! Jam forever  
And let the music PlayyeahYeah  

Feeling fine now, and life is so wOw
I want to have you statyeahYeah  

(Rift).  

3x3:
How did we get here? Really slow  
Where are we going? To a magical show  
When will we get there? When we all go
Who will we meet? Everyone you know  
What will we Do? Go with the flow  
Why are we here? to try and grow  

Cuz It ain’t no mystery  
Making music throughout history
We just get together! Jam forever  
And let the music plaYeahYeah
137 · Apr 2023
(Song) Wandering
Roman Pavel Apr 2023
Now I’m just wandering through
This called life,  I knew
And it is so **** new
I don’t know what to do

But I’m gon keep my head
Even the haters said
That one day you’ll go down
But still, I will not frown

Cuz I’m just wandering through
Only my shoes are new,
Still the same ole guy
Now, just, with a tie.

Wondering, where do I go?
What do I have to show?
Who in this world am I?
And When will I die?

No need to think about
I smoke, and lay on clouds
But I’m just wandering still
Looking for life and thrills

Tell me what’s the point.
Just let me roll my joint
And forget this now,
The past is up somehow

But, the future’s right ahead
Getting my daily bread
I feel so grown now
Responsible for what I’m about

So this is me now
This is me wow
We need love how
Understanding it… by understanding it… we have to understand each other, we have to look for more things that are the same in each other, than are different.

Your differences make you beautiful,
but your similarities makes you friends
In search for a life that’s dutiful
Our vision has to be open to amends

Let your vision be open to amends.
Wandering through life
136 · Apr 2023
(Rap) Heat Lightning
Roman Pavel Apr 2023
In my all black Benz
There ain't nothing cleaner
AK in the back
I call it a street sweeper
Now I hear you talking smack
But you ain't talking to my Nina
Cuz that glock don't talk back
It just clap when it see ya
So...
Listen up close cuz I don't talk a lot
And if you got any questions, you can ask my glock
Cuz I don't take extra rounds
I take extra shots
Pay attention, or I'll leave your body up in knots
Ah!j
And ya they call me the boss
Cuz the only one I answer to, is up on a cross
I stay with that white, like I'm working with floss
I really don't know how else to get this message across
Got your ***** in my room, turning a trick
Working for them dollars, better be working them quick
Cuz I don't got time for that **** boy ****
I be robbing that *****, now watch me hit a lick
Mind on point, I'm sharp as a dagga
And my Swag so hard, you'd  swear it's on ******
Go getter, go getter, go earn
***** Ill make you learn
Confirm
GPS swag, ya It's my turn
Don't say nothing unless you mean it
This money, I stream it
Cuz I got a vision, so you got to let me dream it
And if life's a road then I'm taking the scenic
Now
I just want to get at you girl
I'll hit it from the back, make her toes curl,
Make her ***** swirl, with another girl, *******, I'm out of this world
Then,
I push start the whip
I push start my chick
Wake her up in the night
With the push of this ****
I drive it, revive it, the periods. Survived it.
Ain't no one trying to hide it,
I'm the best, get excited
Now I'm about to go off
Like fireworks on July Fourth
I don't play these games for fun if you losing you better run
I'll take your 2K in 2K
In your face with a Rookie
Bronny James  playing hookie
I'm scoring eating cookies
Ah!
Now tell me that you feel it
You're softer than play doe, and I mean it
You play a dope boy, but you're just a dope, boy can't you see it
No foundation to conceal it
No temptation, you don't feel it
No hustle, I believe it
Your ***** tell me she need it.
I give her that long pipe
In the day, and all night
Tell me she can't focus right?
Now do that mean I'm out of sight?
Now back to your ***** ***
I roll up on your ***** ***
Wether I drive by, and leave fast
Or a blunt filled with that heat grass
Let me say that again
Now back to your ******* ***
I roll up on your ******* ***
Wether I drive by, and leave fast
Or a blunt filled with that heat grass
Yea... I said it.
Take your debit and your credit
Your life's a written book, so you can watch while I edit
leave you praying for a medic
Boy these hands, you can get it
I hope your mom knows she raised a *****
Your mouth never close, you ******* snitch
You smell like fish, bet you got that itch
I open you up so you can not stitch
This ain't a glitch
You ******* *****
You belong in a ******* ditch
What's up?

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136 · Apr 2023
A Terrible Parable
Roman Pavel Apr 2023
In a far away place, on a far away beach, lives a sailor by the sea
He built himself a hut, he built himself a life, waiting on bended knee

Long ago, and further away, the sailor met a girl, by the sea
He waved at her, and she waved back, and love began to be

But she was far, far far away, on a cruise ship, in the sea
And he was a sailor, that could not sail, no sea legs did have he

He just stood there, and felt his toes run over by the sea
Watched her sail away, to distant land, true sailor, he cannot be

The sailor stayed on a beach, in a hut, by the sea
Hoping one day the girl comes back, so he could sail, and one day might be free
Just a terrible parable
90 · Nov 2023
(Song) My Search
Roman Pavel Nov 2023
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

I think back to the time when my search first began
I left behind those shores of sand
For the endless everlasting world out there
I know that with this burning passion driving me
Someday, somewhere I'll finally see
The light I have searched for everywhere

When the summer sun is shining
Shaking the sails of my heart I know

When the world that had been hiding
Has opened up its doors for me to go

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Is what I aim for!

And though I traveled far from where my search began
Over seas of green and shores of sand
Through the endless everlasting world out there
I know that with this burning passion driving me
Someday, somewhere I'll finally see
The light I have searched for everywhere.

As the cold clouds are colliding
Starting the storm of my journey home
All these feelings that I’ve been finding
Now I have to let them show

Yeah yeah yea yeah
It’s the start of my WOAH!

I think back to the time when my search first began
I left behind those shores of sand
For the endless everlasting world out there
I know that with this burning passion driving me
Someday, somewhere I'll finally see
The light I have searched for everywhere
89 · Sep 2023
Deep Cuts
Roman Pavel Sep 2023
Take a look at my scars, and I’ll tell you a story,
But not every story has a scar.
They may frighten you, even be a little gory
But I’m proud of them by far

They’re numeric, reminder of the time
A past hysteric, reminder of the climb

There’s no big hand, nor small hand, just ticks on the inside of the wrist
And in either past, or present I stand
The small hand still exists

With every tick and every tac, came a click and a comeback, and every time I thought I lacked, I came back, I came back

So the scars you see, aren’t the scars that hurt
The scars that bleed, aren’t that overt
And may I assert,
That real scars need to be pestered and picked, overtime they fester and restrict

One day the slice was slow, as I cut deep into the skin.
How I watched the blood go, as I fell into a grin.
Though you couldn’t tell at the time, But, that’s when I had total control.
In the youth of my prime, when my honor was stole.

Waiting for assurance, but assurance was delayed, expecting a fathers love, but Love was betrayed.

And now the blood is pooling, and the scar begins to clot, my heart begins it’s cooling, but the blood is still hot

There’s no fret, no confusion, nor panic
All what I Let, no dissolution, nor manic

For what comes next is easy and simple, of how to mend the ****.
After a thorough cleaning, it’ll heal up in a flash

But deep cuts take long to heal,
They’re a constant reminder of what’s real
There’s a constant reminder of the deal
Constantly restricting what you feel.

You have to restrict the scar from growing
The power comes from managing the pain.
Stop the mind from knowing
Restriction of the brain.

So which story would you rather Hear?
The one of Triumph or the one of Fear.
Because both start in the same place
But, one ends at the surface, while the other at the base.

And while my deepest cuts remain covered
A person is discovered.
Beyond the cuts, only skin deep
Deep into the secrets I keep
Cuts that scrape down to the soul
That no medication can fill the hole
But, now I can stand and walk
Even when those around stare and gawk
I shed the weight of the shackles of my past, and hope that this time it will last
No are tales told of a heroine a slave
For my story is brave. And in my story I save.
For if you knew me, you’d see.
That deep down, I just want to be, Free
86 · Nov 2023
(Song) Stoner Life
Roman Pavel Nov 2023
Chorus
I smoke a joint in the morning
I smoke a joint at night
And somewhere in the middle
That’s where I live my life

Verse #1
I get high on expectations
Of the experiences that I find
I rejoice in jubilations
As I’m reminded of the climb

Verse #2
So Take a journey with me
And you can help me find my truth
And if you’re open and willing
Maybe you’ll find yours too

Verse #3
I believe that the essence
Of living a meaningful life
Is being purposefully present
In joy and in strife

Chorus
I smoke a joint in the morning
I smoke a joint at night
And somewhere in the middle
That’s where I live my life

Verse #4
And one day, my children’s children children
Will eagerly tell my tale.
Of the hopes that I inspired
And the dreams that I set Sail

Chorus
I smoke a joint in the morning
I smoke a joint at night
And somewhere in the middle
That’s where I live my life.
83 · Feb 7
Painted. A series
Roman Pavel Feb 7
I was born, a blank canvas
Propped up, on an unstable easel
Outlined in black, by a myriad, of life’s choices

(BY YOU)

And then, you colored me in
With magnificent hues
In places I dare not know were empty

(BY ME)

And then, i found color within me
Made of magnificent hues
In places I previously feared were empty

(BY US)

And then, the world colored me in
With magnificent hues
In places I never imagined exploring before

(BY NO ONE)

Filled in with magnificent hues
And then, society stripped me clean
Bleached my colors, and left me empty
The first 3 lines stay consistent

And then “painted” in 4 ways

— The End —