Out of Time
Nothing matters. It's all a lie.
But they all say differently, they try
to keep you involved and awake
through this life that is all a fake.
The rich get richer and the poor
suffer their hardships. Please, no more.
Push back and strip the power from
those who oppress us, keep us down.
Voting and protests do not work,
false systems through a dirty murk.
Change the system, change people's mind,
nearly too late, we're out of time.
Friend, lost
you were my friend, close, you understood
you were the one person i could count on
you knew me, i knew you, we understood
we fought against the insanity of the world
and then you changed
spectres and ghosts took hold of you
they changed you, twisted your ideas
i no longer knew who you were any more
a belief that was once ridiculous to us
you now embrace
you shun me
you are distant
you no longer talk
you are in a relationship with your family
but more importantly, in a relationship
with an imaginary friend that you love
and refuse to let any other friend in
i just want my friend back
i wish you would stop the delusions
your family should love you for you
not who you are friends with
don’t be afraid
i know there is still part of you
that doesn’t believe in imaginary friends
let it go
please
i just want my real friend back
A single simple word
are we sure this is how we want it all to end?
in misery and hate, all reason abandoned?
in fear, in pain, worse one year to the next?
saying that it's all necessary in the context?
have we all lost our collective minds with this?
does no single person give a single moment's notice?
aren't we tired of every new day bringing worse news?
is this seriously the fate that we all collectively choose?
a single word becomes something to untangle
impossibly hard and long, explanations to unwrangle
that word is the simple, brief, loaded question of "why"
and no answer given can explain why we must all die
A single tick
A single second passes, unnoticed
Just an unimportant moment in time
A blur of beauty for any artist
A precious reality so sublime
Within that second, an eternity
Aging all of life by a single tick
Some will survive, some will no longer be
And some will turn from being well to sick
Will this be your moment? Time for your change?
Unknown future, we are thrown toward it
Ineligible for any exchange
We rage and cry all for no benefit
For Time does what it does, with no mercy
We must obey, though we do not agree.
An arrow
I'm supposed to be like everyone else
I'm supposed to be in love
And that's what I thought that I felt
Whenever push came to shove
And spoke to someone I dared to think
Could our futures intertwine?
But looking back, my heart does sink
She was merely a friend of mine
Which, in fact, was all I wanted
The complexities of the heart
Far too much for this soul, haunted
I need too much time apart
Even my fantasies, I invent a tale
Of one plus one is two
But in the end, it all does fail
Just this one for true
I can't even invent a lie in which
My heart falls into love
There's nothing wrong, no rip to stitch
It's friendship I think of
An arrangement where the two of us
Meet to laugh and complain
At the end of the day without a fuss
We part and I'm alone again
I want to be alone, most of the time
I enjoy the pure silence
I don't need romance as a pastime
I just want loneliness
No romance, but maybe a moment
Of pure passionate bliss
No long term painful commitment
Just pleasure, maybe a kiss
I am an arrow, still flying straight
But no love or marriage
I realize who I really am very late
Please, do not disparage.
hollow
there is nothing left inside
i am only a hollow shell
adrift on an ocean of nothing
in my own personal hell
all my life i have searched
meaning, purpose, why
it all comes back empty
no matter how i try
failure, despair, depression
these are all what make up me
a person cast out, adrift
lost in an endless sea
i cannot find my way back
doesn't matter how fast i run
happiness is fleeting, contained
inside a void of depression
even my tears are just for show
doesn't matter how they flow
nothing makes anything better
my eyes only get wetter
"help" is a meaningless word
when no one cares to hear
no one practically in my life
it's as if they disappear
i'm fine
so they say
nothing's wrong
every day
just smile
all it takes
happiness
is what you make
endless lies, endless tears
out from them, out from me
endless days, lonely nights
i will never really be free
imagination is
my sanctuary
i just pretend
that i'm free
that i matter
that they care
that i'm happy
that life is fair
reality shatters the fantasy
leaving only empty me
The mighty sailor
Out on the ocean a mighty sailor stood
Singing songs about his home and all that's good
He sung loudly, all the ocean could hear
And all the fishes and the whales came swimming near
As he sung the song that called all the sea near,
"Oh, bringam da fischies, so I eatem alls the year!"
The fishes loved the melody, the whales loved his tone
And the octopuses and squids loved the words alone
"Oh fischies cam don imto my veschel so baire
I's gives ye the wattar to schwim 'case I's faire!"
The fishes did exactly what was asked of them
And suddenly the boat was filled to the brim
Fishes of all sorts, shapes, and sizes
All to become his dinner surprises.
