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"mediocracy" poems
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
the tourney
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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independent minds and critical thinkers led to the gallows and burnt on stakes. but without dissent, valid or not, there is no progress, just stagnation. life is too easy and people complacent. numbed by gimmicks that steal our time. a downward spiral of mediocracy ensues. all leading to a tyranny of the few and ****** revolutions when their lies collapse.
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Oct 7, 2021
Oct 7, 2021 at 9:29 AM UTC
"don't let it happen"
Looking at pain From the inside out Stepping off steep Into an unknown, falling Loose and tightly wound At once In one Spinning straight-line lies Wanting them to be true From here to there exists No mess between No life No humanity No mess Only simple Straight-line lives Like the heartbeats of our politicians Got no room for deviation into mountains Down to earth Got no time for beats and bravery Floating on in mediocracy No, democracy My mistake Found a word and made it look Like cool Made it sound like hope Made it work like **** To cover up the sins of what was truth Not pure or real But what was on Got hammering down Got seeping in Got on with getting on Dig pocks in Devon and call it progress Take chunks of the mama and look surprised As she spits us all out from her centre You, me and everyone who had no idea Who sat behind their 5 mile screen and said **** happens When it was about the starvation And said More’s the pity When it was about monstrosity And said Gotta be thankful When it was about the tanks and the bombs and the guns In some other guys garden And screamed What the **** is going on here With tears and snot and terror all over their tan-stained brows When the phone broke And the plane was late And the dog shat And the restaurant ran out of hors de ******* oeuvres. It’s a ******* sin, that’s what it is To call yourself a restaurant and not have what’s on the ******* menu. A ******* sin. The world’s gone to ******* ruin. Buy me Barrack Obama and let’s call it evens.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 1:11 PM UTC
It's a ******* sin
Looking at pain From the inside out Stepping off steep Into an unknown, falling Loose and tightly wound At once In one Spinning straight-line lies Wanting them to be true From here to there exists No mess between No life No humanity No mess Only simple Straight-line lives Like the heartbeats of our politicians Got no room for deviation into mountains Down to earth Got no time for beats and bravery Floating on in mediocracy No, democracy My mistake Found a word and made it look Like cool Made it sound like hope Made it work like **** To cover up the sins of what was truth Not pure or real But what was on Got hammering down Got seeping in Got on with getting on Dig pocks in Devon and call it progress Take chunks of the mama and look surprised As she spits us all out from her centre You, me and everyone who had no idea Who sat behind their 5 mile screen and said **** happens When it was about the starvation And said More’s the pity When it was about monstrosity And said Gotta be thankful When it was about the tanks and the bombs and the guns In some other guys garden And screamed What the **** is going on here With tears and snot and terror all over their tan-stained brows When the phone broke And the plane was late And the dog shat And the restaurant ran out of hors de ******* oeuvres. It’s a ******* sin, that’s what it is To call yourself a restaurant and not have what’s on the ******* menu. A ******* sin. The world’s gone to ******* ruin. Buy me Barrack Obama and let’s call it evens.
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i'm not interested 
in living anymore 
i don't want to die living just doesn’t hold much interest for me i don't feel good 
i don't feel happy only tired 
tired tired
 always tired i live in a perpetual nothingness i can never find words they lodge in the back of my throat and spiral out flat 
may as well cut my vocal chords out and replace them with yarn maybe i’ll be able to string sentences together then i’m buried in layers of ink and skin they allow me to close my eyes and fall away into my own personal oblivion where it's dark and jazzy elevator music plays in the background and there’s no sharp pings under numb detachment there's a different breed of darkness to my oblivion it's soft and shadowy rippling over all my anxieties like a velvet tide light shines in dusty shafts from no set direction it doesn't illuminate anything it’s nicer that way i forgot what happiness feels like not this halfway happiness that’s induced by comfort food and fuzzy blankets but real happiness that comes from deep inside of your being and spirals and glows this is just a long complaint 
hem hem
 observation about me
 my life
 is it really mine? 
i feel so detached from it 
i spend more time in dreams than i do in it sweeping castles of words and swing sets that swing themselves 
can i just leave? fade away into my oblivion the one with the jazz music and the infinite velvet walls i've come pretty close may as well go all the way i'm an inadequate mess of negativity i can't function quite right anymore unfunny angry pathetic boring i'm me and i don't hate me hate is a strong word i'm just tired a slowly graying towel long used and recently wrung-out hung up to dry dripping mediocracy onto a standard tile floor ha i'll show myself out
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Jun 22, 2013
Jun 22, 2013 at 9:04 PM UTC
pretty oblivions
i'm not interested 
in living anymore 
i don't want to die living just doesn’t hold much interest for me i don't feel good 
i don't feel happy only tired 
tired tired
 always tired i live in a perpetual nothingness i can never find words they lodge in the back of my throat and spiral out flat 
may as well cut my vocal chords out and replace them with yarn maybe i’ll be able to string sentences together then i’m buried in layers of ink and skin they allow me to close my eyes and fall away into my own personal oblivion where it's dark and jazzy elevator music plays in the background and there’s no sharp pings under numb detachment there's a different breed of darkness to my oblivion it's soft and shadowy rippling over all my anxieties like a velvet tide light shines in dusty shafts from no set direction it doesn't illuminate anything it’s nicer that way i forgot what happiness feels like not this halfway happiness that’s induced by comfort food and fuzzy blankets but real happiness that comes from deep inside of your being and spirals and glows this is just a long complaint 
hem hem
 observation about me
 my life
 is it really mine? 
i feel so detached from it 
i spend more time in dreams than i do in it sweeping castles of words and swing sets that swing themselves 
can i just leave? fade away into my oblivion the one with the jazz music and the infinite velvet walls i've come pretty close may as well go all the way i'm an inadequate mess of negativity i can't function quite right anymore unfunny angry pathetic boring i'm me and i don't hate me hate is a strong word i'm just tired a slowly graying towel long used and recently wrung-out hung up to dry dripping mediocracy onto a standard tile floor ha i'll show myself out
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Mediocracy... these words I write governed by a standstill, at-war democracy that's got me medio-crazy, executively lazy judgmentally hazy, and lawfully spacey, running on as their own prisoner-of-war escapees in search of freedom from the ordinary and overly, extraordinarily conservative binds that constrict the construction of these hardly courtly, yet ordered lines.
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Feb 25, 2010
Feb 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM UTC
Mediocracy
Raised on instant gratification rewarded for masturbation spread out on our screens society based on ratings Like bad movie critics, we send mixed signals to artists confuse our creatives and give pleasure to mediocracy We’re old souls in new bodies with prosthetic limbs of plastic and glass extensions of our memories and minds we’ve built a reliance on them One day when the sky cracks in half satellites will fall from space we will all be crushed by The fruits of our progress killing us slow.
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Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 8:17 PM UTC
Death by progress
writing life on the upbeat no mean feat when riding pell mell down to bowels of hell on a harley fatboy bought as look at me ploy with a kooky sidecar of sarcastic sidebar talking of friends my god  are we are all just lemmings to mediocracy in the end
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 8:02 AM UTC
sidebar....
What does a world consist of today? mediocracy? illusion leaving people disillusioned Tall tales we tell lies that soak up our pain claiming never being hearing never listening questions never really having a purpose or meaning relationships started ending in the in between people scared of feelings they were taught to stay clear conscious way of being tall tales we tell soon believing altering what others actually see manipulating others seducing the weak imitating power pretending what we are is what we are not silent conversations had between eyes thoughts that are powerful things we try to forget books scattered all over my floor self help self made self taught choice to go out seeing people familiar lonely faces preying on them recklessly living potentially recking a long term friendship becoming something we never thought we'd be realizing I am just an animalistic human being living from experience to experience experiencing life in many altered ways leading to a skewed way of seeing the world and everything we try to be
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 5:33 PM UTC
Media-crack-see
second-rate skies standing solitary frozen in their own mediocracy conforming to the wills of majority because I'm bored out of my mind fingers tracing the swirls on the ceiling feels like gravity herself is competing and all I'm doing is moving, listless I guess I'm out of time so maybe I'm a little distracted like particles of light are refracted perhaps just a little compacted from the cages you call fine living without joy is no policy so they make it out of complacency questioning the laws of morality and answers by design but I'm reading all the words that aren't written and suddenly I'm willing to listen the stardust we're made of will glissten because freedom I will find. - Anisah Mariah
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Feb 27, 2021
Feb 27, 2021 at 12:50 PM UTC
A poem called ennui
It's my skin, It's my body, It's my right to autonomy, One voice killed democracy, Now we function an autocracy. Voices in crescendo can't drown out hypocrisy, Masters of misinformation our media of aristocracy, My Brain is my own & not owned by mediocracy, If it's about me don't leave it to bureaucracy. I don't trust the pigs in power, Fat cats & waxing rats complacent on the 11th hour, I don't care for your platitudes your words betray your attitudes, Flowers sent when a life is spent frozen on the streets. Capitalism found a way to charge the homeless, People blink but don't think & act so boneless, A country which allows itself to starve is shameless, But politician point fingers and have the nerve to act blameless.
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Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018 at 5:45 PM UTC
Crescendo
When there's nothing else to say, Tomorrow is today. SOCIETY: The Musical! I say, "Hellow!" and you say "hy." We're so mellow, Or maybe shy. We come from a different point of view Somehow i feel like i'm a part of you I love mankind, like we all want to do. Intention is the law. Relating to laughter will make you fall. We are a temple of the Holy Ghost and we won't fall! Rise from the ashes, Rise from the flames. You great Phoenix, YOU MYTH OF ATHENS. We are the masters of our own poverty, The author and the finisher of our poem. Make your poem great. Philosophy is for the mediocre Mediocracy is in our blood. The poor give a sermon to the rich. Poetry made physics weep: The sun is more than gravity and heat... The poor know that much. And by the Grace of God I speak the truth, And the peace of attaining no goal Ohhh..! Hope and long for it!!! For it is the end of endings And the beginning of Forever.
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Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015 at 7:43 PM UTC
Grace.
I am the cultivations of civilisations and cultures pulled like skin over a drum across oceans and continents, An amalgamation of nations, a mosaic of traits and tricks of the trade and familiar faces and swirling DNA I am a product of my time, a member of the wasted youth, existing in the chasm between philosophy and mediocracy, democracy and demolition, truces and the truth I am a night thinker and a daydreamer, I have flowers in my hair and demons in my heart, I'm a chain smoker; a broken individual at best I'm a money chaser, a risk taker, a pretty little heart breaker, a liberal, a time waster, an anything but what I should be. I am here and now, gone by tomorrow, a hedonist at heart, rising and falling like a setting sun
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 7:58 AM UTC
I am
She fuelled all my bad habits in the best way possible. I've never met perfection but she was the closest I ever came to feeling worthy of someone above mediocracy. She judged me, dissected me, took what she wanted from me, bus tickets and all. Took my opinions and moulded them into a formula for the perfect human, She was the dirt that clinged to my skin like whispers of where ive been without telling a soul And i let her be everything when I was her nothing I let her I let her devour me whole and I gave her every last morsel of my soul and let her wipe her sin stained hands all over my insecurities, leaving me sullied, even more so than before. I let her take my hand and drag me to hell because it meant I would be by her side burning. What I didn't realise was that she had an escape route planned, my only escape was to grow accustomed to flames. It seems it's the people who you love the most are the people who you allow to hurt you more than any physical pain you ever felt before. Because pain of the body will heal, you cannot repair trust or hearts the like a punctured tire She took my hand and told me 'chin up buttercup, you'll never be the first, the last, or the only **** up' She lit me up Took a drag from my roll up Flashed me a smile that would make every sinner weak at their knees But she's in love with a New Yorker now And that was the end of us
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 1:40 PM UTC
Manic Pixie Dream Girl 2
raskol tells me that we don't have to live in a mediocracy.
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Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM UTC
Rant on, raskol!
Liberal Hillary for notsee Trumpler, Dempublicans for remocrats, Because the invisible coup lied, Hillary's "not perfect", was all The excuse dinos, linos, sinos, ginos, Ainos, kremlin kronies, hackers, wicked Leaks, Bernie or bust bots, needed. The worst, US intelligence/police industrial Complex, who, like king george and his **** Cheney, purposely not preventing the Attacks on 9-11-01, they didn't prevent the Hacking of our 11-16 elections, installing Trumpler and attempting to realize a borne Again cold war, extreme theft of tax $, etc.. Potential democracy for mediocracy, Peace and prosperity for Ebony, ivory, The Black and white supremacies' Cannibalizing the future, for e.g., Tax dolla's, in perfect harmony, To replicate the past's supposed: Profits, pleasures, and powers. $12. to $15. an hour minimum wage, Reproductive and healthcare rights Progressed, et al, for the Black Supremacy getting: a President in 2020, Potentially, instead of waiting till 2040, 'cause, "once you go Black you Never go back", extreme war funding, etc.. "...We(e),...", used to know to: not Grind up the seeds, let our kid's as... Be, and let them be kids, the real Deficits realized are astronomically Higher, like when the trillion ton Ice cube was dropped in the drink, Cooling things off for a bit, but, Heating them up forever, burning, Flooding, extincting everything.  We can, Individually, turn 360 degrees around, Back to The Evolution, the future, humans Will only have if we do.  By changing Everything, swapping criminal insanity For sanity, exigency for humanity, again.
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Apr 4, 2018
Apr 4, 2018 at 3:13 PM UTC
Swapped
Liberal Hillary for notsee Trumpler, Dempublicans for remocrats, Because the invisible coup lied, Hillary's "not perfect", was all The excuse dinos, linos, sinos, ginos, Ainos, kremlin kronies, hackers, wicked Leaks, Bernie or bust bots, needed. The worst, US intelligence/police industrial Complex, who, like king george and his **** Cheney, purposely not preventing the Attacks on 9-11-01, they didn't prevent the Hacking of our 11-16 elections, installing Trumpler and attempting to realize a borne Again cold war, extreme theft of tax $, etc.. Potential democracy for mediocracy, Peace and prosperity for Ebony, ivory, The Black and white supremacies' Cannibalizing the future, for e.g., Tax dolla's, in perfect harmony, To replicate the past's supposed: Profits, pleasures, and powers. $12. to $15. an hour minimum wage, Reproductive and healthcare rights Progressed, et al, for the Black Supremacy getting: a President in 2020, Potentially, instead of waiting till 2040, 'cause, "once you go Black you Never go back", extreme war funding, etc.. "...We(e),...", used to know to: not Grind up the seeds, let our kid's as... Be, and let them be kids, the real Deficits realized are astronomically Higher, like when the trillion ton Ice cube was dropped in the drink, Cooling things off for a bit, but, Heating them up forever, burning, Flooding, extincting everything.  We can, Individually, turn 360 degrees around, Back to The Evolution, the future, humans Will only have if we do.  By changing Everything, swapping criminal insanity For sanity, exigency for humanity, again.
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I can't tell the difference between my life spiralling out of control and falling into place. So I spend my days making up for the past one, Trying to hold onto myself whilst having no idea who I am and reading poetry at 4am trying to imitate it's words and calling it art. But I am hungry, thirsting for more, mediocracy does not satisfy me yet I was not made for great things. So I fade away, run, become intangible so you cannot reach me because I was not meant for your world.
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 6:07 PM UTC
Who am I
I wish to experience sober the bravery of drunk I wish to experience adult the immediacy of childhood I wish to experience the unconstrained love of the innocent and unbroken I wish to emerge myself in the hope of he who has never suffered disappointment We all get the possibility to live life at its fullest Why do we aim for satisfaction and settle for even less? Mediocracy is a principle of averageness, but ought never to be a goal in itself Unique. Human. Individuals. Do not forget your pride Do not underestimate the value of true joy I do believe in charity Do I believe in Me?
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Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020 at 2:30 PM UTC
What we aim to achieve
In the jungle i grew Braveness was a call. Mediocracy critized And togetherness built! Luck was hard to catch Though i swarm to you, The Deepest inn of the picture All for one like a captured shadow. Which waves can sail us apart When the future already wrote our history in smiles To the deep sea of humans my eye netted you, My blood fused you, My hearted stamped you in. Neednt i have to lock?, ....You are diagonized to stay! A fueling joy, a stripped happiness, naked money with an invitation to treat. A fuse to swapping rejoice, a price worth paid for all the lost tears
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Jul 16, 2016
Jul 16, 2016 at 2:27 PM UTC
Brave Sight
a plutocracy rules best from the shadows of mediocracy
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Jun 1, 2019
Jun 1, 2019 at 11:54 PM UTC
Upside Down
Although I hate I don't wish ill on other sometimes I do though Either way, there are times when ill wishes for us And though this is the case don't look up for if you look up you will create a second mask but fear not This is not a guide instead this is just but a hindrance that I shall impose on thee For I am not omniscient nor objective I am just a fool born with their confidence so that is why I trust that you see and believe me when I say, don't look up You would need to break you neck in order to look up now with all these excuses in your head Look up For you are not done yet you are just like the others So reach for everything you can from the galaxies, to the teary moon you see for We are waiting for We are who have gone through mediocracy and a cold part of hell for We are not done yet with everything
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Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 at 2:31 PM UTC
I am done with not everything
First, look at each other with loving eyes Giggle and chuckle and smile Say something kind about your eyes and your giggle and your chuckle and your smiles, Describe them with unnecessary nonsense similes Your cheeks like the rosey rose-red red rose gardens Your voice sweet like chocolatey chocolate-brown chocolates, etc, (insert rhetoric metaphors) In most love songs that’d count as an entire verse In my opinion, that’s just sincerity’s depressing hearse Next I say something about, “I don’t wanna break up” And then rhyme it with let’s make up Calm you with a consolation flower, bent at the stem Wipe your tears with a comforting napkin, torn on the hem Might even play you a corny acoustic love song, not like there’s a shortage of them That sort of bs is all the redemption most can offer And accepting it is the mediocracy we all seem to suffer Because otherwise, we’d all just be blue Why not be happy if the only cost is to stop being true? The next chronological step is to say something about loving you I love you I love you I love you You believe me? Oh, whew That’s a relief Cause I might be 15 but I most definitely totes love you Why’d I say it three times in a row if it’s not true? I’ll say everything about wanting you Staying with you Loving you Forever And then define forever by the lifespan of a small insect To be frank and honest, I really don’t care Whether anyone’s vain mating attempt is failed or perfect All I’m up here to say is that it’s not fair That we accept the cheapest bouquet Accompanied by an acoustic cliche As symbols of true love How does that show that we care? I don’t mind much for any form of love, really I’m just trying to point out the evident and obvious fallacy In these claims of love and romance That come in the form of a thousand empty apologies Third, fourth, endless requests for a second chance And though I’m not one for **** like feelings And though I don't want to talk down from above Watching everyone scramble and scream, in disparity and ecstasy All in the name of true love Is simply depressing
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Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC
In the Name of True Love
First, look at each other with loving eyes Giggle and chuckle and smile Say something kind about your eyes and your giggle and your chuckle and your smiles, Describe them with unnecessary nonsense similes Your cheeks like the rosey rose-red red rose gardens Your voice sweet like chocolatey chocolate-brown chocolates, etc, (insert rhetoric metaphors) In most love songs that’d count as an entire verse In my opinion, that’s just sincerity’s depressing hearse Next I say something about, “I don’t wanna break up” And then rhyme it with let’s make up Calm you with a consolation flower, bent at the stem Wipe your tears with a comforting napkin, torn on the hem Might even play you a corny acoustic love song, not like there’s a shortage of them That sort of bs is all the redemption most can offer And accepting it is the mediocracy we all seem to suffer Because otherwise, we’d all just be blue Why not be happy if the only cost is to stop being true? The next chronological step is to say something about loving you I love you I love you I love you You believe me? Oh, whew That’s a relief Cause I might be 15 but I most definitely totes love you Why’d I say it three times in a row if it’s not true? I’ll say everything about wanting you Staying with you Loving you Forever And then define forever by the lifespan of a small insect To be frank and honest, I really don’t care Whether anyone’s vain mating attempt is failed or perfect All I’m up here to say is that it’s not fair That we accept the cheapest bouquet Accompanied by an acoustic cliche As symbols of true love How does that show that we care? I don’t mind much for any form of love, really I’m just trying to point out the evident and obvious fallacy In these claims of love and romance That come in the form of a thousand empty apologies Third, fourth, endless requests for a second chance And though I’m not one for **** like feelings And though I don't want to talk down from above Watching everyone scramble and scream, in disparity and ecstasy All in the name of true love Is simply depressing
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In this world There's still this mediocracy People always settling for less, for ok It's so annoying! And then there's this hipocrisy Calling out people Not looking at themselves in the mirror And in the midst of tragedy We're pinpointing each other Who's fault is this? Isn't this ours?
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Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC
Destroyer