Disappointment lies
Inches from excellence —
Often
It's all we'll see.

Rejoice, resounding —
Celebrate life consciously
In formidabele fashion,
So long as time
Is ours to live.

To plant a seed
And watch it grow —
Baby mine,
There's nothing like it
In the world.

Worship in numbers,
Be one of the many —
True voices reduced
To a heart or a thumb.

Coexist? Co-decide.
Anger to fury,
Protest to riot —
The moment rage
Boils over,
Resolution dies.

Grant me yours,
I'll gift you mine —
All we've got of worth
Is time.

I'm not saying
It's over,
But lights out —
Tomorrow's
A brand new hell.

It's nothing new,
This cultural desecration —
The meek, feasting on the
Pillaged, bloated corpses of giants,
The inevitable, bi-generational
Paradigm shift.
Keep calm,
Stay ignorant, and carry on.
It's only progress.

The destiny assembly line,
A factory of birth —
The hands that locked the cradle
Still rule the world.

Bulshit upon bulshit reasons,
Mysticism shrouding nature —
Love is who you pick
To seek happiness with.

Fear —
The residue
Of pain.

May you have
Shaped your gods
With mercy.

Rows and rows
Of silver tongued,
Hydrated with liquid gold —
Silenced stand the liars,
Unwilling monuments
To shattered truth.

Spacetime spanning
Webs of awareness —
Trip a pawn,
Sense a queen's
Pending fall.

In the great construct,
Even Kings and Queens
Are but parts to be played.

Zeroes and ones —
Modern religion
Where saints and sinners alike
Can be either
Losers or winners,
Denied the middle ground.

Hurting and ashamed,
Afraid to confess
That the shoe
Does not fit.

White noise of
Advice not taken,
Discord frequencies
Ring true —
Silent language of
The screaming dead.

Smokescreens,
Gaslights —
Riding curved narratives
To false intent.

A tool is
How you use it —
The carrot
Is the stick.