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#justify
A brain like mine, the brain of an addict, can justify anything Drumming up excuses that defy reasoning Connecting dots with miles of red string Coming to conclusions that are baffling "The problem was this here faulty Icarus wing" "Setting me up for failure back when I was seventeen" Not the fact of the constant nosediving Bracing for impact, the anticipations paralyzing It was easier to hide it in the begining Can't hide it now, so let's call it ageing The lack of a fatal crash is a bit puzzling No complaining It's just surprising Kinda thought I'd be death defying 'Till I became stuck in the sky flying high, Ignoring every warning Didn't think it possible to hit the ground running But now I'm panicking I didn't plan for a second half, that fact is terrifying Far scarier than any thought of dying I wish I was lying ©2024
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Apr 5, 2024
Apr 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM UTC
~•§•~ If I'm Lyin' I'm Dyin' ~•§•~
I wonder if an eye for an eye means you'll never worry about a sty You try and you try to comply but still see yourself go from zero to bad guy {Never clarify a why} You know as well as I, if possible at all they will always present the lie And who needs to justify why it is what it is when what it is something we'll never get to try Please stand by... No one will be with you shortly, this journey is set up to be very lonely It's just you and you buddy, Superman's strictly literary and there's no name at all on the bologna {Look closely} Monopoly's a better show of character then any therapy, decide for yourself if that's comedy or tragedy Money is invested in more cautiously than time and family Is there any calm to this calamity? There's no depth to our shallowness, told it helps move along the progress The process? Well, that's a little harder to digest, we digress with every test {Failures are countless} Direct protest to this nonsense that's pressed into every crevice Some kind of life sentence, a guilty plea agreed upon with no victim or eye witness What even is this? Escape one bad dream only to find yourself awake in a worst nightmare Nothing in here fights fair, I'm not aware of any rules posted anywhere {I can feel the crosshair} I don't want to be any part of this twisted love affair between god and Lucifer Figure it out, don't make me come up there, I'll purch on YOUR shoulder, whisper crazy into your ear Let's see who fears who here... ©2023
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Nov 22, 2023
Nov 22, 2023 at 3:47 PM UTC
~•§•~...please stand by...~•§•~
We have more in common than you might think, from way back when, we've all been a slave to the system This isn't some All Life's Matter nonsense to gum up progress, it's just an explanation of the MO of our nation It went from skin to the dollar amount you bring in, it's my history too, no appropriation How is it that I don't fit in being that I'm part Native American, must be the other part of me that's an Irish man They stole you then stoud you and demand you comply to tilling stolen soil using the same regurgitated lie You were forced to work, we were forced to die, you deserve reperations but unironically so do I You look at me and just see another white guy, I'm a perfect example that history can't always be seen by the naked eye Never forget the why, we're being forced to hide the cry as they rush to rewrite themselves as the good guy Sectioned off ghetto and reservations put in place for the preservation of the notion only the white survive and thrive Every second of our life the truths been uncovered and streamed live, no need for a deep dive But they still claim to be blind to the red stained streets from this perverse and nonconsentual mass blood drive Their stories never jive but the hive mentality rules, allowing bigotry and hate to always revive I want to Hulk out, often feel I'm about too, but what's that gonna do, it'll only prove we're as savage as they say They are waiting for the avalanche to fall any day so they can justify putting us away, barking at us to just sit and stay Is there another way, how can we drag this from out the shadows and into the light when there's only perpetual grey Allowin' us to say what we gotta say hoping then we'll go away, how many marters will it take before we're no longer prey? Question charitable blankets, pass on the boat ride, how we suppose to trust when every handshake is a lie certified A bona-fied villain willin' and able, fully capable of genuine genocide screaming gods on their side If there is a god and he does come back he better watch his back or run and hide They lack morals of any kind, replaced with blind pride, he'd undoubtedly be crucified in a fashion not only justified but glorified I know you can't fight hate with hate, that'll only perpetrate this disastrous fate But all we hear is wait, the time is never right but always near and once it's here they'll be glad to open the gate But if we keep rattling the cage they'll have to keep pushing back the date, so we wait But how much do they think we can actually take? Maybe they're just waiting for us to finally break ©2022
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Sep 19, 2022
Sep 19, 2022 at 2:37 PM UTC
~•§•~ Same Side of the Coin ~•§•~
We have more in common than you might think, from way back when, we've all been a slave to the system This isn't some All Life's Matter nonsense to gum up progress, it's just an explanation of the MO of our nation It went from skin to the dollar amount you bring in, it's my history too, no appropriation How is it that I don't fit in being that I'm part Native American, must be the other part of me that's an Irish man They stole you then stoud you and demand you comply to tilling stolen soil using the same regurgitated lie You were forced to work, we were forced to die, you deserve reperations but unironically so do I You look at me and just see another white guy, I'm a perfect example that history can't always be seen by the naked eye Never forget the why, we're being forced to hide the cry as they rush to rewrite themselves as the good guy Sectioned off ghetto and reservations put in place for the preservation of the notion only the white survive and thrive Every second of our life the truths been uncovered and streamed live, no need for a deep dive But they still claim to be blind to the red stained streets from this perverse and nonconsentual mass blood drive Their stories never jive but the hive mentality rules, allowing bigotry and hate to always revive I want to Hulk out, often feel I'm about too, but what's that gonna do, it'll only prove we're as savage as they say They are waiting for the avalanche to fall any day so they can justify putting us away, barking at us to just sit and stay Is there another way, how can we drag this from out the shadows and into the light when there's only perpetual grey Allowin' us to say what we gotta say hoping then we'll go away, how many marters will it take before we're no longer prey? Question charitable blankets, pass on the boat ride, how we suppose to trust when every handshake is a lie certified A bona-fied villain willin' and able, fully capable of genuine genocide screaming gods on their side If there is a god and he does come back he better watch his back or run and hide They lack morals of any kind, replaced with blind pride, he'd undoubtedly be crucified in a fashion not only justified but glorified I know you can't fight hate with hate, that'll only perpetrate this disastrous fate But all we hear is wait, the time is never right but always near and once it's here they'll be glad to open the gate But if we keep rattling the cage they'll have to keep pushing back the date, so we wait But how much do they think we can actually take? Maybe they're just waiting for us to finally break ©2022
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For the preoccupied mind You will Always be wrong But You don't have to justify
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Sep 5, 2020
Sep 5, 2020 at 10:16 PM UTC
Response
(JUST)(IF)Y The verb that strengthens the truth also questions it.
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Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 5:16 AM UTC
What A Story
It's not Your fault; You're just the epitome, The manifestation of this society, Or maybe the race as a whole - From start to end, You played this role. After all, was not Noah the sole fool Who loved the Lord and became His tool? And the sinful world around him jeered - Lonesome Noah was thought quite weird. You represent all my social trauma, My insecurities and highschool drama. You have everything I want to be. I lie in chains but you are free. Socrates, too, was condemned by You, Killed with poison for the truth he knew. You said it was for the good, but no, It was Your pride that acted so. You're popular, sporty, pretty, small. I'm lonely, artsy, ugly, tall. You do bad things and the teachers love you. I do my best and... nothing. Jesus was rejected by his own kind, The Jews who had once been blind. They mocked Him who deserved their praise, Thanked His mercy with a wooden raise. You're showy, bratty, loud, and cruel. I'm nervous, friendly, quiet, a fool. Wherever you go, you find friends. I act like you and my hole deepens. No, I'm not Noah nor Socrates, Not Jesus or who else you please, But I'm in a similar boat as they. Tears and pain wash me today. All the pain I feel inside my heart Is worsened when You play Your part. You're like all the others, but I chose The model as the cause of my woe.
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Feb 4, 2020
Feb 4, 2020 at 10:31 AM UTC
Envy
When purpose, hope, dreams and future are gone and you know with certainty that all there is, is a past..... do you still see beauty in a sunrise? When loathing a new dawn becomes your reality and despair lays as far as you can see, can you forgive those who lead you here? Can you value your worth or forgive yourself for the mistakes you made along the way? When all you have touched are gone or have either abandoned or been abandoned.... where does "stupidity" start to become reality? Do you see the sunrise and believe that you have reached the point of ultimate "stupidity"? The sun will always rise... must you avoid "stupidity" forever? When you reach out a hand and there is none willing to take it how can sunrise hold any joy? I am burdened by the expectations of those who would have me view endless sunrises.... they hold me back from reality to keep their dreams and hopes at the values they instill them with. They fear "stupidity". If you live here then we are neighbors you and I.... we share the same sunrise.
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Mar 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019 at 8:11 AM UTC
Turning Out the Light
wish this was only my existence i could give up on persistence convincing my concious that its morally fine ignore the repercussions of my suicide wish it all washed away when we take the ferry but the world still flows and memories are carried
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Feb 2, 2019
Feb 2, 2019 at 2:46 AM UTC
// convincing my concious
I remember reading somewhere that one thorn can be used to extract or take out another thorn which has pierced the skin and body of a person so the pain experienced for a while does worsen and only after it has been taken out is heard a sigh of relief regardless of the method used to come by. ________________
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Feb 21, 2018
Feb 21, 2018 at 9:24 PM UTC
The End Justifies The Means
Irrational The Terrorist (a follow-up to After A Terror Deed…) There’s no such thing as ‘non-believer’: All believe in something. Family, sky, the Vedic I, The name ‘non’ – anything misnomer. Those who slaughter In the name of heaven, waiting virgins, angels, Paradise, God knows what else, Where lion vegetarians Meet bird and man as ***** friends… They do no know life’s real ends. True, misconceived, a pictured or imagined thing So strong that it gives murdering A face, It makes the law-abiding jaundiced, And, like me, seeing irrationality In well meant terror dogma-bent As pure one hundred one percent Insanity. Irrational The Terrorist 4.8.2017 Our Times, Our Culture II; Arlene Corwin
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Apr 8, 2017
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:44 PM UTC
Irrational The Terrorist (a follow-up to After A Terror Deed...)
It certainly does matter a great deal whatever we all say and do because they're the ways by which we express our thoughts too. It's by our thoughts and ideas that we can justify our reason for being and by translating them into action we also reveal ourselves for seeing. _________________________
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Mar 12, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 at 2:43 PM UTC
Quatrain #304 - It certainly does matter......
I cleansed my hands of corruption today For I had done a filthy deed I gazed into the mirror I saw corruptions seed In harvest of its fruits My ends justified my means And although there's not a mark I'll not be truly clean You may question what I did But it is my belief That it's better to feel something Even if it makes you bleed
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Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 11:32 PM UTC
Tainted
Listen to you speak... verbose and way too loud incessant - speaking at me or as if I were a crowd. You often are pedantic.. like a pompous- preachy fool.. who'd really like to think that he's taking me to school... when what you fail to grasp we can't avail No Golden Rule - 'do unto others as you'd have done to you' and this... might sound upright- of course... if you believed it too.                                              All Rights Reserved * 2016 - Cherie Nolan
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 12:22 PM UTC
"No Golden Rule"
I don't need to  justify You to enter my  life Come as you like And go as you like
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Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 2:58 PM UTC
Justify you
I confess I'm not good enough But for some reason, you don't see that You don't mind that you deserve so much better So I strive Every day To be better Just to try and justify You loving me
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 11:52 AM UTC
Confession
For me to be alive I must eat. For me to eat, things have to die, And for what?-- An existence I can't even justify.
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Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 4:02 PM UTC
I'm Not Hungry
i don't believe that someone's sadness should be justified. in fact, i don't think that a lot of people's feelings/emotions should always be justified for that matter. feelings are just that, feelings. and sometimes, our feelings don't always have to manifest from a case scenario, incident, or situation. sometimes, they just pop up. plain and simple. we are people, and things like this happen to all of us. sometimes, i get sad. and i feel like an ocean composed of disappointment and heartache is filling up my lungs, and that's okay. and if i don't know why i'm feeling that way, it's okay. i don't have to always give you an explanation, and that's okay too. the mere idea that we always need to disclose the reasoning behind our sadness, or our anger, or our happiness, is absurd. yes, i totally agree with the fact that bottling in feelings all the time is nowhere near okay and that you should find some way to cope with them and help you deal with them in a non destructive way, but what i don't agree with is the fact that when you spill your insides out to a person, it's assumed that you need to justify yourself. you don't always have to. and that's just where the truth lies.
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 1:59 AM UTC
you don't need always need to justify the reasoning behind your heart being heavy.
Don't worry about making excuses, I've already done it for you.
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Jan 28, 2015
Jan 28, 2015 at 10:36 PM UTC
Excuses
Selfish needs holding on to old words What could they ever mean now Selfish deeds to justify staying the night by your side What more could become of this Selfish love I am to blame
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 3:16 PM UTC
Selfish
just trying to take each day separately from the others maybe then the similar moments won't run together like muddy water down the roadside of a week or two and seep through into the grass of culminating time and too much rain trying to pick the hours apart and keep the bits and pieces of patterns away from each other so they'll just stop dancing around me for now it's true that they somehow make me whole but i've thrown logic aside for a little while just wanna see how the other side lives, that's all let me do this, i need to justify myself can i be justified? turn me into a philosophical debate and justify me, prove me as a theory concrete as an idea make me an argument, defeat what makes me wrong teach me myself and i promise i will learn, just please make me right
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Mar 2, 2014
Mar 2, 2014 at 1:42 AM UTC
looking for an argument