Truths

Searching for answers
already received,
we're trying to find
what we misperceive.
We have been told
what we continue to hear
but we will not listen
to that which we fear.
We ignore truths
in favor of the dreams
we know are fantasy
that will never happen, it seems,
yet that does not slow
this machine down
that produces such delusions
that reproduce all around.
Instead our mind's utopia
that will never escape
an imaginary home
will never take shape.
The delusions will simply
grow more vivid and loud
until that which once
made us so proud
will drive us crazy
and into the ground
with nothing but remnants of sanity
lay scattered all around.

A Trait to Admire

You know what you know
and you do what you do.
You go where you go
and say anything to anywho.
You are on your way
and going to your place
as you say what you say
to any species or race.
You have some bravery
that is sometimes misplaced
as it entraps you in slavery
with ideals that become erased,
yet you push on and on
with no one to stop you,
not even another dawn
that tries so hard to.
You will always continue
no matter what slows
as you continually pursue
what makes you tick and go.
Whether others agree
with the way you do it
we can only admire thee
for how you stick to it.

Rest at Ease

I've accomplished it all
and now it's over.
My dreams are realized,
the ultimate closure.
The things I wanted
such as happiness, love, and peace
are now all mine
as I can rest at ease.
I never got all
of the money in the world
but I didn't need it
to be completely fulfilled.
All I needed
was all that I got
as the bad that came
was all for not.
Now I am filled
with the calm so longed for
as I give this body back
and leave with only a soul to endure.

This Love

Your pain hurts me.
We are sharing the same agony.
All that you want in life
is what I want for you to be happy.
I overflow with a love
that helped me rise above
the tribulations I faced
with you as my guiding glove.
Times could not be harder
with dreams that couldn't seem farther
from where you dwell
in a seemingly unsafe harbor
but I am here to say
that this stormy day,
along with all the others,
will fade so far away.
However what will not
go away, as for it we fought,
is a love that pulls through
even when we feel caught.

The Rise

The grind on the mind,
it's taking too much time
out of my life.
I explain until insane,
hit by frustrations of mundane,
I want out of the strife.
It's the same stupid game
complete with the frame
pointing to me for the blame.
I'm just too sick to stick
with this ridiculous shtick
as a life and soul is maimed.
My feet must hit the street
and rise to the challenge of the heat
before it takes me and consumes,
but my legs are turned to pegs
as, despite a soul that begs,
the evil conquers a host and blooms.

The Process of the Throwing

Words discarded
into the trash
that were thought of long ago
when I was too brash -
The process of the throwing
away of these ideas served
painful at that very instant
until I realized the benefit of the swerve.
The pain and frustration
I thought I would encounter
is completely absent here
like a home's out-of-towner.
Now I only feel freedom
from what once hurt so badly.
I can only say I would repeat
the motion I now do so gladly.
No longer will these hiccups
of misguidings and indecisions
to do the right and honorable action
hinder me from viewing the vision.
Only will the act of preserving
the beautiful gift I've been granted
will be of my concerning
as my story becomes the enchanting.

Abrasive and Shocking (Deathly Destiny)

Give me something,
any topic you want,
and I will uselessly
begin to flaunt.
Give me a challenge
worthy of my time
so I can further
commit this, my crime.

Tell me what I
should tackle today
so arrogantly that
I can be on my way.
Tell me how I can
further puff out this chest
that needs more than
anything to get a rest.

Direct me how, please,
in your ways of the cocky
to be more disgustingly
abrasive and shocking.
Direct me into
the hole of misery
I was already running for
apparently blissfully.

Pull me down now
into the depths
I was destined for
with all selfish breaths.
Pull me down now
into a death,
the only destiny possible
thanks to unending selfishness.