Speak your mind
Without a fear,
Say what no one else
Will hear.
We’ll stand by you
Through it all
Our weak hands
Will break your fall
Be the hero
In our time of need
Heal yourself
So we can bleed
We moved the walls-
You were unaware.
You understand,
Don’t you?
We live in castles
In the air.
You’ll live with us
Won’t you?
Pack your lunches
And dig your heels in deep
It’s going to be a long night…
Sweet friend Denial,
You numbed and soothed,
Time after time.
We must part now.
The walls of apathy
Are crumbling now
And the pain pierces,
Right through
Our thick-skinned ignorance.
How I wish,
You could remain
How I wish,
I could turn away again.
Let’s waste time
Chasing the horizon
As it goes farther
The closer we go.
Keep running,
You’ll never get
A bite of that carrot,
Keep on running, jack-ass!
“Trivialities interest me not,
The final prize I chase,
For when my share of pain exhausts,
True joy I will embrace.”
Seasons changed
And he remained.
Silently he bore his cross.
His quiet prayer
Kept him sane,
Smilingly he faced each loss.
And then one day
He realized,
Impervious he’d become,
The dark, long night
Had ended
But morning never would come.
No longer did he feel the pain,
Yet happiness he did not gain.
A perfect balance he had struck,
In nothingness, forever stuck.
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Dedicated to those who believe that absence of pain is synonymous with happiness.
‘Beauty truth…’ says one,
‘Is all ye need to know in life.’
‘All is flux’ the enlightened one says,
‘Everything shall one day die.’
We’ll all fall down, One by one,
As night consumes the evening sun.
Count your days backwards,
‘Forever’ ends sooner than planned,
Waste not your life on trivialities,
Value every grain of sand.
For it takes a moment to build,
And a moment to destroy,
A moment to turn sadness to joy,
A moment for the truth to turn into a lie,
And not more than a moment
To bring a tear to the eye
A moment to cease decades of pain,
And a moment to cause it all over again.
But this pain of mine,
Shall never diminish,
Until the moment
You deal with the unfinished.
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