Selfish mean girl,
How is it that
After all these years
You're still my dream girl?
How does one change
The heart's locks?

Hereditary devotion —
Obedient little soldiers,
Raised on battle hymns
And toxic lullaby's.

Reality wounds the superficial,
Clinging to impressions
By their fingernails —
Life is life is lies.

In affairs of the heart
None of us
Are entitled to anything
But ourselves.

Worked to death
To pay the mortgage,
Sold my soul
To stay alive —
Never purchase where
The currency is life.

Converse, connect —
All life is a dating app.

Wonder seeds the wish,
Giving credence to the need —
While worries chase the want
In the land of what if.

The tower long since crumbled —
Yet, cries of dominance
Still echo from its ruins,
And we listen.

Surmount —
Weakness
Needs not
Be permanent.

Pro-dedication, anti-fake —
#realme #bestme
And the legion other lies
We tell ourselves
In public.

In this life of chance,
Make love your axis.

Act prudent,
Save the blame —
It's expectations
That let us down.

Dissonance at brutal pace,
Once intertwined fates
Far astray —
Long before even
Hearts started bleeding
Tears of could have been.

A truth too large to see:
All happiness is fleeting —
But then again,
So is misery.

Only the lost
Seek love
In obsession.

Gentle fade the words,
To not upturn
The havoc they unleashed.

Not until it's gone —
Watch the hand,
Lose the moment —
Will you know what you have done.

All that nourishes
Body or soul
Addicts —
Attention most of all.

Don't get me wrong —
I wish to love the goddess,
But let me get to know
The woman first.

Passive lives
Immune to will —
Coping, besting
Fates deliberate.