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64 · Nov 2021
Lexical Meaning
labyrinth Nov 2021
The world is now
A ****** crazy-house
Full of ignorant *****
Controlled and victimized
By a bunch of psychopaths
And this isn’t even a metaphor
Well, unfortunately not anymore
labyrinth Jan 8
Looking at historic human trace
I don’t see neither noble nor holy
Few exceptions aside, this race
Is often guilty of greed, anomaly
63 · Dec 2020
AA
labyrinth Dec 2020
AA
Hello folks, my name is Labyrinth
And you are as numb as an alcoholic
Let me give you the rundown
You’ll see how you’re a boozehound
All that hunger, poverty
Injustice and inequality
Whether or not you admit
Your silence is the hand in it
Hypocrisy, corruption
Racism, overpopulation
Global warming, agriculture
Too many to digest? Yeah sure!
Tyranny, nuclear weapons
I know, **** just happens
These are just to name a few
Matters you turn a deaf ear to
Too lazy to get involved
Busy being dissolved
My name, folks, is still Labyrinth
Sober 19 years going for twentieth
The reason why you are stuck
Is because you’re an ignorant ****
Caught in the headlights, rabbit?  
Or is lack of reaction an old habit?
Much more to say to your face
Nothing to say. You are a disgrace
labyrinth Jan 16
Off the record, marriage
Is a dragging carriage
That takes you nowhere
Other than grim despair
60 · Dec 2020
What Is It
labyrinth Dec 2020
Voluntary delirium
Incessant drunkenness
One sided equilibrium
Sort of unconsciousness

Losing self
With little bit of trance
To the other half
Unknown in advance

Intentional insanity
Culminating in ******
Free of charge ecstasy
Subject to high tax

Total madness
Mostly unanswered
Almost sadness
%100 standard

If none of the above
Then it is not love
59 · Mar 2021
Hope Business
labyrinth Mar 2021
Just because it is free of charge
People hope in vain by and large
Hoping the hope without awareness
Is, my friend, a bankrupt business
59 · Jan 2021
Nowadays
labyrinth Jan 2021
No one seems to be straight
Sincerity is a long-gone trait
58 · Oct 2021
Head
labyrinth Oct 2021
Fish rots from the head
And, that being said

Look around you, all the heads
Commanders, bosses, presidents

We are living in **** holes
Created by them filthy souls
56 · Nov 2020
Corona
labyrinth Nov 2020
The delivery guy’s at the door
Must’ve brought what I ordered, or
Maybe this time a virus along with it
An attempted ******, so legit
The New Normal is at the least
The freaking ghost at the feast
It is still up to me. Totally my call
Opening the door, not knowing at all
Whether it is the death waiting outside
Or just the milk delivered where I reside
55 · Dec 2020
Old Age
labyrinth Dec 2020
By the time mind knows better
Body has already slowed down
It must be the cost of getting wiser
Them wrinkles on the natural gown
55 · Nov 2021
Untitled
labyrinth Nov 2021
Man without bother
An incomplete brother
54 · Oct 2020
A.I.
labyrinth Oct 2020
Artificial Intelligence, I assume, is not
About androids conquering the world
I will get back to this a little later, but
Let’s first clear what became blurred

You’ve grown into a person very receptive
To every single signal Onliners propose
As if internet is holding you captive
And it doesn’t even occur to you to oppose

Writing comments and pressing “send”
Makes you believe you’re the “Mr. Action”
What you don’t get on the other hand
It’s actually nothing but total distraction

It’s like shackles or addictive drugs
Can’t get rid of it, like a bad hoodoo
You need LIKES more than you need HUGS
Besides, you need them right away, too

Swiping and clicking. New forms of caresses
A heart is less needed than a mobile device
It is the real you that a screen replaces
A sad way of saying it clear and concise

Romance is easy now, revenge is cheap
In the realm of emojis and icons
Emotions are at the bottom of the heap
A synthetic world that is, virtually nylon

It’s been, I’m afraid, taking you forever to see
Happiness and log-in names are now good neighbors
Yes, love is in the air, I suppose I don’t disagree
Or in the deep ocean, running through cables

Online friendships are inhumanly careless
Ignorance is a habit now, better get used to it
As long as here and there you can get wireless
That’s the new oxygen or blood, taken for granted

Robot’s skinning you alive is a naive fantasy
You’re eating your own flesh. What a decadence.
It’s getting worse than this volunteer fallacy
Everything’s artificial, why not intelligence

The fantasy however, will turn into a nightmare
If digital life becomes a more routine policy
Labyrinth’s warning you with the utmost care
You’re making the A.I. a self-fulfilling prophecy
labyrinth Jan 29
We were only passing by
They forced us to comply
53 · Jan 2021
System
labyrinth Jan 2021
Hospitals, schools, medicine and food
Looks like serving you for their own good
Citation from a longer poem
labyrinth May 21
Remember 9/11? Getting hits
On your soil was hard and new
I figure, however, nowadays it’s
Too much information for you
51 · Nov 2020
Politics
labyrinth Nov 2020
Alright now! Let me get this straight
Before I make any further comments
It’s never for you and it’s never great
What they plan and/or recommend

Represented by the two smarties
The-most-advanced democracy
Provides you with only two parties
One hell of a job by aristocracy

Such a narrow diversification
Arranged with utmost diligence
Is getting voted for certification
For ever-increasing indigence

Either The Donkey or The Elephant
Meekly pick your side and move on
Real issues? Always almost irrelevant
In this open-air probation you’re on

Enron, dot-com crash or nine/eleven
Or housing crisis and Lehman Brothers
Corona killed millions, already in heaven
More is yet to come, plenty of others

There’s much to be said for this charade
You are always off-guard and unready
And too lazy, stupid, weak and afraid
To change any of this to the contrary

All abused openly, not even stealthy
There’s neither shame in this nor propriety
Democracy is certainly good and healthy
Only if it represents the real society
47 · May 28
Right Time
labyrinth May 28
As Israel has a West to back her
It must be right time to massacre
47 · May 11
Capitalism
labyrinth May 11
You think you are so close
Then in the blink of an eye
Fresh target or fresh dose
You’re ready for a new try
45 · Dec 2020
Truth
labyrinth Dec 2020
humankind is weird
acting sort of like parrots
no one wants to hear
the truth, busy chasing carrots
45 · Nov 2020
Critical Countdown
labyrinth Nov 2020
I don’t at all mean to limit
People, but if you think about it
Having more than one kid on purpose
Turns the whole world into a sad circus
Then complaining about inadequacy
Of anything is now a big hypocrisy
Let’s take a look, what’s missing
In the midst of all noises and hissing
Clean water, fresh air, enough food
Jobs and education, both good
An intact healthcare system
And much more, but I don’t wanna list’em
This is not a matter of whether you are resilient
You know better than this. We’ll soon hit ten billion
More than one kid simply means
Population will have no decrease
Do not scatter them sperms around
Your kids will suffer too. That’s not profound
You probably hate me for saying all of the above
It’s not about me, it’s about the ones you love
From me to you, one last call out
Please do care for a timely pull out
44 · Mar 5
Entity
labyrinth Mar 5
After all
I’m just a dot
But I know
That’s a lot
44 · Jun 11
Life
labyrinth Jun 11
I’ve come alone and I’ll go alone
All I do in between is try to belong
40 · Nov 2020
Two Questions
labyrinth Nov 2020
I have two questions for you
One in the beginning, one in the end
Sometimes you feel that the most
If not the only certain thing in this life
Is the death, right?
Yet, you keep pretending that it is not
Better yet, you keep pretending that
Your little, stupid possessions
Appetites, imaginations
Plans, expectations
Wishes and even hallucinations
Are more concrete, more real, more certain
Than anything else, including the death
Now comes my second question
Why only sometimes?
39 · Nov 2020
NOTICE
labyrinth Nov 2020
Unless you start to read, think,
And read again, and think more
That long-awaited awakening
Will never knock on your door
39 · Dec 2020
Moments
labyrinth Dec 2020
It was ten to five
Looked at his father’s new wife
Grabbed the knife
Soon was the time for dining
Still madly yearning
To become at least something
Approved by his father’s new wife
A new wife meant a newer strife
Yet he was ready to strive
It was now five to five
Stopped playing with the knife
After playing with the life
Of the brown thing called rye bread
Before he reduced it to a sliced dead
With heavy thoughts in his head

— The End —