Encouragement frees,
Expectation strangles.

However much desired,
You cannot make it so
By words alone —
Seize your useless
Repetition.

Unfiltered speech
Trades reason for emotion —
Our poorest motivator.

Half-shaped musings,
Veiled in gray —
Fear, delusion,
Inner demons.
Expressible? Perhaps.
Still, likely
Better left unsaid.

Become who you are
Made to be —
Break that heart,
Seal that fate.
Justify
Our evil thoughts,
So we may be
Forgiven.

Hashtags
Are the new
Pitchforks.

Identity,
Enforced with hostility
Divides.

Not all
Facets of a truth
May be seen
From a single
Point of view.

Most minds,
Saturated
By trivial choices,
Choose comfort
Over conflict.

Emotion, all we sow,
Emotion, all we reap —
Desire never changed a thing.

Life's true quality
Lies in that
Of our
Values and metrics.

The one difference
Between variables
And absolutes
Is human arrogance.

Safe for you,
Too cold for me —
Both hostage
To the uncertainty
Between us.

Such tragedy —
A life, reduced
To the rational.

Enjoy the wonder —
Grateful, not beholden.

No fixed absolute,
A chosen motion —
Purpose
Is a construct.

The soul, a lens,
The mind, a scope —
To each
A truth their own.

Reality, the perception
Of all we observe —
The intersection
Of truth and belief.

Look not without
Seeking to fill
An emptiness
Within.

Objective necessities,
Wants, not needs —
Mere optical desires,
A hunger
Which cannot be
Unseen.