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Farhan Ahmed Sep 1
The mind is restless befriending evil while resisting its attacks.
It knows destruction may be inevitable, yet whispers of redemption remain.
The fight continues. Each action feels like a battle, every decision a dilemma shaped by people, by the world, by business, by relationships.

Even after choosing to confront the evil within and step forward, the path shifts again
another test, another temptation, another moment that feels worthless.

Still, the fight continues.
The ancient grief-accusing, the empty Present still looks back and forth on the past believed to be forgotten; fate-born sneaking fears, pitiful, small bargains-contracts frame the increasingly Sisyphean, more and more turbulent everyday lives of this modern mass-man. Fate - if it existed - drags everything and everyone down, because it must blindly lead man hesitantly stumbling, still groping to know that he could not have lived in vain. Now, the wills of withered mummies are gnawing at their nests, and the closed handcuffs-locks lock their millions, not just an uncertain boundary line, which is always reshaped and reshaped at will by great powers ready to mess around.

The decay that has already begun now - it may seem - is becoming more and more massive, since even mere everyday Existence has become stuck in a swampy desire for something tangible; there is no way out. In the underworld depths of the Soul, infected, festering sorrows speak and testify about it; what should have been done and done differently, so that even the tolerated humility could become more livable?!

- Because now, apocryphal letters in books dream their forgotten dream lives in a hundred ways instead of man, which only go to the privileged as compensation. On the wrong paths that hide the past, a chain of shame-handcuffs is already stretched, starting to rust; the sinful soul is also pregnant with shadows, that in many cases it has left it free, calculating, to be dictated by manipulable promises instead of sober, considered ideas and free thoughts, and in return they can pay for delayed reparations.

Now you are slandered to death by petty, envious suspicions, accused of treachery without evidence, like most petty accomplices, sued like webs of minutes. Because the candle stub of existence reaches down to the visceral bones, a dark pit for mortal men to reach...
Limes Carma Aug 31
I never went all in
Just stuck to the small stakes
Kept my bad habits running
Even when I felt destroyed
Like a car running without brakes
I don’t know if its only you or a selected few
Maybe some of the **** I didn’t see through
And
I don’t know if I lacked compassion for all of my partners,
Or everyone I ever knew
But I feel stuck when I’m awake
Running when I’m asleep
The hill I need to climb to get back to myself
Feels way too steep
And while I’m waiting for the final break
Maybe I’m already in too deep
I feel addicted to heartache
Because I can’t let go of this heartbreak
Please just fall asleep
Kostash Aug 31
from all the scars and the wounds
the bruises and the cuts
a garden will arise
full of all the flowers i ever loved
and all the bugs i avoided

from the blood and the water
crystalline rivers will form into mater
which will create a new sun
not too hot but just enough

from all of the meat and the skin
new mountains will rise in the sky
over rain clouds the birds will fly
with water that's always clean

from my heart and soul
a forest will come as a surprise
and from my mind alone
a bunch of ants will arise
Northern Poet Aug 31
Mental health problems
Wish I had wealth problems
‘Money can’t buy happiness’
But it’ll help solve them
I got ninety-nine problems
And my mind’s the worst of ‘em

I’m on a knife’s edge
Staring at life’s edge
I need a side quest
Something to help me escape this mess

We’re all pawns
In a game of chess
Life’s a cryptic crossword
And I don’t know what’s next

They say mental health matters
My mental health’s in tatters
My mind is beyond battered
And my thoughts are ******* scattered

They call it anxiety
It’s quite the complexity
They downplay it in society
No one likes variety

Everyday should be a breeze
I’m the only one I can’t please
My mind is stuck on static
And I feel like I can’t breathe

They blame it on the hormones
They don’t care if you feel alone
Nothing left and no hope
My head’s a ******* warzone

I can’t look on the bright side
I can’t escape my mind’s eye
I wake up and want to die
Forever trapped in the lows and highs

Mental health problems
Wish I had wealth problems
‘Money can’t buy happiness’
But it’ll help solve them
I got ninety-nine problems
And my mind’s the worst of ‘em
Peter Aug 31
The bus
won't wait
for you,
if you are
running late.

Too late.
The bus is now
too far.
The bus
didn't wait
for you.
Who
do you think
you are?
Inewdip Aug 31
Dear God
You made stars
that wink at the moon
Flowers
That smile as they bloom
And humans
Too busy to notice
For all they see
Is a dull screen
Captured by an illusion

Dear God
You made wind
That brushes off
Even the deepest wounds
Of souls that cry at night
Where the dark rules the light
Rain
That melts all the pain
With a touch so tender
Softer than a whisper

And you made Humans
With hearts so cold
Not even the rain could melt
Humans
With words so heavy
That the wind can't carry
Humans
With thoughts so loud
That won't let them sleep
Breaking silence with a weep

Dear God
You made birds
That sing with voices
Sweeter than fresh honey
And humans
That run
Faster than cheetahs
They've no break
To sit and listen
For they're scared

Not of an animal
Hunting them down
Or of one with a knife
Chasing with a shout
But of a clock with two hands
That constantly calls
Of a future inevitable
A future
They're scared to glance at
How reckless of you
To make creatures this breathless
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