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2.5k · May 2021
Cost Overrun
labyrinth May 2021
Letting human souls
Born to be noble
Rot out with ugly goals
Trouble of all troubles
labyrinth Feb 2023
I don’t know no more the good from the bad
They say authority was sleeping, not awake
That makes me furious, that makes me mad
Government is deadlier than the earthquake
2.1k · Jan 2022
Nothing More
labyrinth Jan 2022
All I want is one more chance
To live my life from scratch
1.9k · Mar 2021
Animal Haiku - I
labyrinth Mar 2021
In the tiger mood
Fox acted airy and rude
It did not look good
1.7k · May 2021
My Blue
labyrinth May 2021
It’s always been my blue
Don’t you dare feel lured
I just fell in love with you
Knowing that you wouldn’t
1.6k · Dec 2021
2022
labyrinth Dec 2021
There’s been tear
There’s been fear
Now’s a new year
And I am still here
1.5k · Mar 2021
This Is Me
labyrinth Mar 2021
Please stop the time dear
I wanna get off right here
1.3k · Jan 2022
Epiphany (Sort Of)
labyrinth Jan 2022
Since we just can’t
See the plain truths
We, ourselves plant
Trees of bitter fruits
1.3k · May 2021
Synced Up
labyrinth May 2021
Sunday has certainly lost its crown
Over the other six during the lockdown
1.3k · Nov 2021
Just Because
labyrinth Nov 2021
Just because you will never be held
Accountable by the unborn face to face
A child who’s to come, yet more like expelled
Say; hundred years from now in this case

Just because you’ll never look him in the eye
Or answer his questions on the nature abuses
In the name of the reasons you had at the time
You and I both know, they were ******* excuses

Just because you can avoid that encounter
You think you can treat the globe the way you do
I’m just gonna ask to nail the lie to the counter
Tell me *******! What does that make you?
1.2k · Apr 2021
Bigger Question
labyrinth Apr 2021
Is it only me who sees reality
Or
Is it actually not what I see
1.1k · Apr 2021
L O V E M A T H
labyrinth Apr 2021
They said two becomes one
When you really love someone
They either lied to me about the formula
Or never had good math teachers so far
988 · Oct 2021
Fluke
labyrinth Oct 2021
You’re the only one
Who understood me
Yet, that was just a
Misunderstanding
A mediocre translation from Turkish colloquial
974 · Mar 2021
You Take My Self Control
labyrinth Mar 2021
Either social media or mainstream
Will soon control even your dream

They don’t need your loyalty honey
Only body, spirit, time and money

(In Loving Memory Of Laura Branigan)
878 · Mar 2021
A Wish
labyrinth Mar 2021
If I could have found
Someone to express
I would’ve talked about
My Loneliness
787 · Nov 2021
Untitled
labyrinth Nov 2021
Breathing in vain
Living more humane
They ain’t the same
765 · Nov 2021
Trust
labyrinth Nov 2021
We have to come up with
Better ways to build trust
In this current bandwidth
Nothing works as it must
701 · May 2021
HUH! INTERESTING
labyrinth May 2021
Getting to choose whom to be ****** by
Is called democracy instead of lullaby
678 · Apr 2021
IF
labyrinth Apr 2021
IF
If you take out the letters
“a”, “t” and “h”
From the word “faith”,
And change the order
Of the remaining letters,
You’ll get an “if”
What does that tell you?
It tells me “I’m bored to death”
667 · Jun 2022
Relativity
labyrinth Jun 2022
When you are around
I feel lighter than a cloud
When you leave me alone
Even the cloud weighs a tone
647 · Feb 2021
Soul For Sale (Trilogy)
labyrinth Feb 2021
one

When it comes to selling a pure soul to Devils
There are basically three good-looking levels

What we ought to be analyzing first
Known as quenchless material thirst

This is where you start being flirty
With anything iniquitous and/or *****

Seeing property, ranks or things as somewhat valuable
Precisely what makes you weaker and more fallible

Watch out! Once you’re out of your humble abode
It’s tough to come back from that tempting road

Still a rather innocent level to be at
Heads up! You don’t know what it might beget

Fly is not little anymore, if it’s in the ointment
Not worth it to dishonor your biggest commitment

Being a human, that is. As the day you were born
Ponder on it for a sec! Before you scorn

Evidently at this stage, the relation with money
Is like of a baby bear and a jar of honey

Little by little minds became ravished
Easy come, easy go; lots were lavished

Enough number of bad deeds to practice
Sure elevated you higher than apprentice

You’re already accustomed to being unfair
Before you know it, you’ll forget how to spare

As time passes by, you’re at the very threshold
Of Daemon’s pawn shop, where dignities are bought and sold

Please stop acting like you don’t have a clue
We all know this didn’t come out of the blue

Deliberately avoided to get a rain check on this
It’s nobody’s fault now, you chose going amiss

two

Congrats! You graduated from dirt to sewer
Competitors around here are a lot fewer

You’re already a guard dog, since you passed the test
Masters give you orders now, go ahead and try your best

Good news, the payoffs are way bigger
Can you dig it? You sneaky, cheeky digger

Including but not limited to bribing
Cutting in lines, cheating, lies or bid rigging

Then come rip-offs, swindles and deceits
A whole lot of rotten bucks with no receipts

Agreements, clients, customers are out there
Simply for the sake of your modest ******* share

Don’t get carried away, we focus on the vicious
Deals of the bad guys who are too ambitious

To go for the sinless mass, trick them for wealth
Playing with the good-old education and health

Any clean trade with sweat and decency
Is not the subject here, except positive recency

What do I mean by that? Positive stays in the mind
A little good news every day, to keep the crowds blind

Anyway, where were we? Let’s just keep proceeding
To describe to folks what the hell’s really happening

Style counts, huh? All ties and jackets
While squirrelling away the fortune in buckets

It’s legit, it’s shapely. It’s not artifice.
Make no mistake. Around here, we call it business

Regardless of whose, walked away with all you could
At the end of the day, you’re not ******* Robin Hood

How fascinating, virtually as good as it gets
Go Figure. The last step, where the Evil One besets

  three

You’re at the third and last phase already
His highness the Satan is now your sugar daddy

Civil rights, law, ethics, and much more to violate
The higher you climb, the more to annihilate

Get ready straight to make millions suffer
From that armored zone of yours, you call buffer

Having children work for real late hours
Well, it’s their children, right? Not ours!

Going for the pension plans of the most innocent
Is merely a prize to you. Almost magnificent

Causing conflicts to sell even more weapons
What’re you gonna do man? **** just happens!

Resolutions, legality, votes and members
Are tools to Lucifer. But who remembers?

Vietnam, Africa and all the Middle East
Where you have real wars to feed your beast

Journalists, congressmen, soldiers or presidents
Are on the payroll of this firm, a bunch of happy residents

As you step up, one day you will realize
Almost all the wealth belongs to you and your allies

But that won’t stop you from chasing your goals
Remember, Beelzebub already bought your souls

I can’t help but wonder, why people are so stupid
Distorted religion maybe or TV makes them this torpid

Better this way anyway, because if they wake
You’ll have to **** ’em all to keep your dear stake

Once you’re registered in this ****** parade
You get paid as long as your role is well-played

Thus, it will be a ******* habit for you to breach
Anything and everything that’s within your reach

Crème de la crème treatment will be your regular
Etiquette is your last name, you shameless embezzler

But, hey. You’ll look very good in that high-end camouflage
All this charade to you is one good Swedish massage

I don’t think one will ever solve this double-bind puzzle
So keep up the good work with your stinky razzle-dazzle

Meanwhile, refrain from looking in the mirror
I forgot. It’s only business and you’re not a sinner

Dude! It’s about time now, you can die rich
Just before that, however, one last thing to teach

You look sharp alright, charismatic and ****
One day you’ll regret all this, I’m not whistling Dixie

Come around and behave. Labyrinth calls your class
Or else kindly take it all and shove it up your ***
This has been posted before
634 · Aug 2022
Oxygen
labyrinth Aug 2022
A heart that’s broken
Needs more oxygen
That is why it’s hung
In between two lungs
616 · Mar 2021
The Point
labyrinth Mar 2021
No! You are not right
You just talk too much
612 · Jun 2022
Self-Control
labyrinth Jun 2022
Please! No more than one birth
Already too many folks on earth
592 · Jun 2021
Legacy
labyrinth Jun 2021
A decent, carefully written verse
Resonates in the entire universe
565 · Mar 2021
Main Reason
labyrinth Mar 2021
We cannot seem to manage
To be just one another
There is no bigger damage
Or problem for that matter
549 · Mar 2021
You & I
labyrinth Mar 2021
We’ve been so good
YOU AND I
Then we’ve met
546 · Jun 2022
Heart
labyrinth Jun 2022
Heart cannot be lended
Nor it can be borrowed
You either don’t have it
Or have had it all along
537 · Jan 2022
Sound Of The Quiet
labyrinth Jan 2022
Neither your lovely charities
Nor a bunch of other favors
Will give me no prosperities
They’re just equality waivers
labyrinth Feb 2021
In case you are wondering, to whom I am addressing
I’ll clear that part for you, so you won’t have to be guessing

Aiming at the racist ones, words are my sole arsenal
And if you’re like them too, go ahead and take it personal

What I will emphasize may look to y’all as history
From humanity’s standpoint; it’s a big shame and mystery

It sure happened in the past, this ain’t a current topic
Or it’s maybe still around, hurtful and traumatic

Man was treated as goods, traded in public auctions
Disgrace was all over with no sign of conscience

Body wasn’t enough, you also wanted mind and soul
Wow! You must’ve paid a fortune to buy ’em all

Please answer me, Dear Sirs. What happened to empathy?
Do you know what the word refers? Taking the fifth already?

You never thought of yourself in the body of color
Yet gave long-*** speeches on dignity and honor

You were rough on the surface, to make them obey
Who knows how rotten in inside. And all that was okay

Captivated a race and gave them the stupid belief
That they were secondary and all they deserved was grief

Motivation was obvious; millions of things to take care
Slaves cost less than anything. You couldn’t even compare

Don’t run away now, we just heated the subject
He is a human being Mister, not a ******* object

Oh, I see, you don’t wanna face the sheer fact
That indeed your cruel ancestors attacked

These innocent African tribes for no good reason
In a barefaced manner despite the Age of Reason

And you’re not ready to redeem their deadly sin
Alright! Stand up and admit then. All humans are close kin

It’s **** important. Do you even know why?
That is to say to residues of racism bye-bye

Opportunity gap, project houses, ****** education
Are the real meanings of the word discrimination

Biased justice with never ending prejudice on Blacks
Are updated slavery forms deserving a good smack

You are mostly haughty for the things you didn’t earn
Race and color are given, but you have yet to learn

No man’s a property for your royal dynasty
Facing and accepting this takes a lot of honesty

Freedom was vague when society was stratified
Where the aristocracy were safely identified

By color, neighborhood, and school in the whole nation
In ******* good-old-days, during segregation

Do me a favor and don’t give me the cliché
That all **** sapiens had an equal say

It is not the truth even nowadays
Let alone back in those dark days

For all the years they have chosen to be violent
Slave owners don’t have the right to remain silent

Before giving me the crap on Afro-American’s wrongdoings
Let’s put you in their shoes and see how you’re doing

It’s not like Blacks need a defense from this ground
To see how they get even with you, just look around

Jazz, rap, hip hop, soul, reggae and blues for that matter
Non-black pants below waist, what a cross-cultural endeavor

Look at youngsters’ hands, when they’re saluting each other
Trust me, there is nothing white, it’s all from Black brother

In return is belittlement, denial, tyranny and attack
All while they are transforming and painting you solid Black

It all began in New York with the Harlem Renaissance
Artistic, rebellious and witty. Possibly the best response

I know what I’m talking about with absolute faith
Once my home address was 135th and 8th

Stop pompously calling this junk as modernity
It’s in fact nothing but big fat white sovereignty

Nonetheless you are more than welcome to anticipate
That in fact communities of color will emancipate

You from yourself in time, if you know what I mean
Too deep to grasp, huh? For what you have been

I can almost hear that you’re constantly asking me
While me being white, oh sorry. A brown maybe

Why on earth am I now irritating the past?
Like what happened back then is not manifest

I’m not even black, right. But in all fairness
I question the past to raise some awareness

I suppose it’s both because of my aching heart
Feeling in the history for this vile part

And also because of my Turkish nationality
That’s Europe’s Black these days, with Asian paternity

Add to that as well a keenness for reality
Truth needs to be cried out, it’s my personality

This way or that way, what difference does it make
Ignore who says it. Embrace the truth for God’s sake

Most great thinkers felt deeply for the human
With their vast and perpetual acumen

It’s not a duty assigned to philosophers only
We must do the same, so no race becomes lonely

There is no other way to the salvation of mankind
Notice it already! Don’t insist on being blind

If you’ve yet to realize what matters the most
It’s your efforts to solve the problem we diagnosed

Make no mistake, we don’t cry over spilt milk here
Action must speak louder than the words to clear

This longstanding injustice along with insincerity
A bleeding wound that is blocking solidarity

Here’s your chance to make it all right again
Treat people equally, I bet you’ll get an Amen

Kindly stop acting like nothing happened in the past
Labyrinth’s says it’s time for understanding at last

March 12th, 2019
labyrinth
This has been posted before as Quest For The Past. Copyrighted Content
536 · Mar 2021
Oh Yeah
labyrinth Mar 2021
It is not self-confidence
Yet uses it as a disguise
Nor is it high self-esteem
Ego only roots in traumas
531 · Jun 2022
Heads Up!
labyrinth Jun 2022
When time starts to fly
And it’s not always fast
Eye’s bound to turn blind
Up until everything’s past
526 · Dec 2021
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
labyrinth Dec 2021
I like the fact
That I write
Just the way I like
So,
I write the fact
That I like
Just the way I write
526 · Jan 2022
I Love No More
labyrinth Jan 2022
I loved merry-go-rounds
Since my very childhood
Till, my love lives, I found
Mimic them as I matured
labyrinth Nov 2021
To better protect your nest
Though hard, it’s not forbidden
Keep consulting with your past
Where all lessons are hidden
520 · Dec 2022
Yardstick
labyrinth Dec 2022
Unless it gets you free time
Why **** the self for the dime
517 · Apr 2021
Life and Death
labyrinth Apr 2021
It always starts, we know
With that timid, first breath
Then some glow or some snow
And it always ends with good old death
513 · Dec 2022
New Year
labyrinth Dec 2022
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
People bad, world hell
Dunno what else to say
501 · Mar 2021
ABOUT US
labyrinth Mar 2021
You are the almighty sun
All warm and all bright
All I am is the moon
Nothing more than a dim light
494 · Dec 2022
Actual Lies
labyrinth Dec 2022
This is not Orwell’s novel. Yet
We are in holes like the rabbit
Truth’s lost its tie with the fact
Lying is a governmental habit
491 · Feb 2021
Education
labyrinth Feb 2021
How can any education
Be a sufficient insurance
For a pathetic population
Keeps favoring ignorance
489 · Jul 2021
Love
labyrinth Jul 2021
I’ll always believe in your lies
I don’t care about your honesty
Every time I look in your eyes
You’ll have a general amnesty
461 · Oct 2023
Mute
labyrinth Oct 2023
The West is again dead silent
They must be connatural mute
As some Jews’re anew violent
For new ways to commute
457 · Jun 2021
Befuddled
labyrinth Jun 2021
They told me
“If I change,
The world changes”.
Well, I did.
But it didn’t
Or maybe it did.
Well, I don’t know.
456 · Feb 2022
quitter
labyrinth Feb 2022
you make me feel small
you make me feel cold
i won’t raise, i won’t call
i think i’ll just fold
450 · Mar 2021
Enemy
labyrinth Mar 2021
In search of the enemy
If self is not the start
Most likely that inquiry
Will turn into a witch-hunt
444 · Jun 2022
Fortunetelling
labyrinth Jun 2022
A child not raised properly is
The cause of most future ills
444 · Feb 2021
Semi Romantic
labyrinth Feb 2021
For her, I opened the door
And red carpeted the floor
From now, it’s her choice
Either me or the other boys
442 · Dec 2022
What Love
labyrinth Dec 2022
You folks keep talking about love
While I keep seeing the lack of it
Don’t y’all see in witness thereof
Souls hurt souls for the heck of it
440 · May 2021
RUNDOWN
labyrinth May 2021
Judging by its look
I’ll make a quick point
It seems no way to hook
And the world’s outta joint
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