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84 · Apr 2021
YOU ALL ARE LIARS
labyrinth Apr 2021
You all are liars!
Admit it already
So we can all go home
Some of you will lie unintentionally
But, some of you are barefaced liars
Some of you won’t even remember the reason
Down with this ordeal!
Yes, you all are liars!
There, I said it again
This time for the record
Some of you will lie for money
Some of you will lie for chair
Some of you will lie for social approval
Some of you will lie out of obedience
Some of you will lie for love
Some of you will lie to betray
Some of you will lie for a tender bid
Or talk soldiers into dying during the day
Some of you are natural born ***-kissers anyways
Some of you will lie in the name of religion
And some of you will lie as a matter of course
Like all politicians, most lawyers
Or some doctors for instance
The most innocent of you will lie to the self
In the end, you all are liars!
Unless you have a problem with that
Admit it already. Come on!
I just want to go home
I’ll have some pasta, I’m hungry
Maybe a couple of beers too
And then get some sleep
84 · Jun 2024
Life
labyrinth Jun 2024
I’ve come alone and I’ll go alone
All I do in between is try to belong
84 · Nov 2021
Police Report
labyrinth Nov 2021
You stole my heart and just left
No crime read the police report
Yet, we both knew it was a theft
And you were all along a poor sport
83 · Jun 2021
Untitled
labyrinth Jun 2021
I always took my
Not getting along
Well with humans
As a good sign...
labyrinth Jan 2021
It’s obvious that we all,
Grow up with traumas
Let it be either small
Or just the big ones,

This cognitive leakage
Leading to millions of doubts
Comes with the package
No wonder the world’s a crazy house
82 · Jan 2022
Poetry
labyrinth Jan 2022
Of love or of fear
When poetry told
Now that, my dear
Is a sight to behold
82 · Feb 2021
Stray Dog
labyrinth Feb 2021
I’ve been taking care of a stray-dog lately
She has a lovely face, hiding her insecurity
I named her Mocha. Her color is brown
Mostly tame, little timid, sort of down
She knows how to keep her distance
I never patted her for instance
Her both ears are cut. I have no clue, why
I feed her twice a day with some supply
She disappears to unknown places most times
Except for three times, where she’s precise
10:00 am, 5:00 pm, around midnight
The last being start time for my plight
She sleeps on the mat by the front door
Started doing that with the first snow
I, by the way, thought she was sterilized
Most of the stray dogs in Istanbul are
Well, it turns out she was not
The hardest way I had to figure that out
And, it is that time of the year … Well. You know!!!
I’ve been seeing at least 5 visitors per night. Oh no!
She’s been making-out / Ridiculously devout
So to say, functioning with what’s endowed
I’ve bumped into 6 males at once the other night
As if she’s doing this to us out of spite
Transforming our garden, this cute, little ****
First Red-Light District, now a ******* plot
My 13 yrs. old girl started asking me about these routines
The reason why I particularly do not appreciate the scenes
My dog being born from a suchlike mother
With her 12 dissimilar sisters and brothers
Even if at some point I will interfere
I totally respect what's going on here
That though still leaves me with two unsolved problems
One concerns morality, another logistics. Both are solemn
What the hell am I gonna tell my discombobulated neighboring
Where the hell am I gonna host my new grandchildren
81 · Apr 2021
DELIBERATE BLIND
labyrinth Apr 2021
There are poor people out there, around us
On the sidewalk, next door or in a public bus
One might think we breathe the same air
I know for a fact that the heavier is theirs
Then there is the homeless
Carrying the sense of homelessness
Anywhere they go, in every single realm
During the day, at night. And, that is all the time
There are beggars as well
Some are not that innocent, I can tell
But it won’t make any difference
Unjust is unjust, by inference
By a nasty grenade or evil-minded shrapnel
There are literally millions of wounded people
For good reasons though, as they were told
Some stories right there for grandchildren to unfold
You know? Babies, small kids die of hunger
I don’t think death can get one any younger
You know? Babies, small kids die of hunger
I don’t think death can get one any younger
Even the world seems to ignore it, or openly declines
I still felt like repeating those two lines
We share the century ******* it, with all of them
A century that I unashamedly condemn
Without even thinking any of this
We get up everyday in our own abyss
Any solution to that? We can’t seem to find
Other than playing both deaf and blind
81 · May 2022
Divine
labyrinth May 2022
Take a sip from the wine
And just try to stay calm
There is nothing divine
In this counterfeit realm

I see you don’t believe me
Asking “what about god”
Ignorance killed him, silly
Religions are now flawed
80 · Nov 2021
Ownership
labyrinth Nov 2021
Maybe they’re
Nothing but ****
They’re however
My poems ******!
79 · Jan 8
Post Covid
labyrinth Jan 8
I am not negative and that is truth
Out there anything’s hardly smooth
79 · 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
79 · Oct 2021
Stratagem
labyrinth Oct 2021
When in Rome
Do what tourists do
: )
78 · Jan 2022
Butterfly
labyrinth Jan 2022
As some poor butterflies
Based on the time I post
My digital poems’ lives
Last a few days at most
78 · Jan 2021
No Title
labyrinth Jan 2021
As time passes by, you’re at the very threshold
Of Daemon’s pawn shop, where dignities are bought and sold
77 · Jan 2021
Truth II
labyrinth Jan 2021
After a moment of introspection
They stopped fooling themselves
First time free of self-deception
Majority missed the lying halves
77 · Jan 2021
Wake Up
labyrinth Jan 2021
For nations nothing is more suicidal
Than being ignorant, aimless and idle

Numbness causes failure in critical thinking
First and last condition of smooth sinking

Two words: Popular and fast makes you oblivious
Needless consumption only works up pretentiousness

Enough with ******* around. Try changing for a change
For it may be the only way out of this gaudy cage

They don’t love you anyway. You’re absolutely jilted
That’s OK. You're not a bird, even the cage is gilded
75 · 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
75 · Jan 2021
Nowadays
labyrinth Jan 2021
No one seems to be straight
Sincerity is a long-gone trait
75 · Oct 2021
Honey
labyrinth Oct 2021
Take off your clothes
I wanna talk to you
75 · 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
74 · 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
74 · 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
72 · 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
71 · Oct 2021
Squirrel
labyrinth Oct 2021
Politics should be simple
Is it right? Do it.
Is it not? Don’t.

Law should be simple
Is it just? Go ahead
Is it not? Stop there

People should act simple
Is it good? Well, good
Is it not? Try harder

Life should be simple
As simple as squirrel’s
71 · 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
69 · Apr 12
Test Drive
labyrinth Apr 12
We are drifting in this car called world
Rich’s on the wheel, poor’s but witness
Former has all the fun. He likes to twirl
Latter’s share in this is just car sickness
66 · Nov 2021
Untitled
labyrinth Nov 2021
Man without bother
An incomplete brother
65 · Jan 7
Point Making
labyrinth Jan 7
Time surely flows
With a lot of flaws
62 · 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
60 · Jan 2021
System
labyrinth Jan 2021
Hospitals, schools, medicine and food
Looks like serving you for their own good
Citation from a longer poem
56 · Apr 29
Stratagem
labyrinth Apr 29
There’s no war that’s unavoidable
Those are solely financial choices
Palestinians thereby are inaudible
No one hear their heartsick voices
54 · 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
50 · 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
49 · Dec 2020
Truth
labyrinth Dec 2020
humankind is weird
acting sort of like parrots
no one wants to hear
the truth, busy chasing carrots
48 · 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?
48 · Mar 9
Guess Who
labyrinth Mar 9
As a dexterous obstructionist
He was deliberately impeding
All the critical issues in his list
To be able to carry on leading

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