What we want,
What we need,
And what is granted
Rarely matches —
Meat for the vegans,
Fruit for the carnivores.
We don't get
All we ask for.

Each a life our own —
Why care for what the world
Thinks of you?

Talk, soap, nor glitter could
Cloak your rotten soul —
Even the blind smell your aura.

An arrow's life —
They point, we fly
With minimal control.

Roads to recovery,
Too much akin to Paris-Dakar
With compass nor technology —
Tracking paths in shifting sand,
Towards what?
Horizons? Desert dreams?
Only time will tell.

Eyes on me —
I feel them staring,
Just outside my vision.
They're bothered,
For I don't give a fuck.

You may feel like you are done,
But are you ready for what's next?
Nothing stands on its own.
We carry the ever-building
Weight of our mistakes —
Each challenge, every test,
Until the end.
Never move on lightly.

They say that
Good things come
To those who wait.
That may be,
But not here,
Not for me.
They've probably headed
To where I
Should have been.

Made for pain,
Little signals, keeping us
Safe from damage —
Early warning systems
That may at times
Feel like too much,
But press on, and listen well
To what they tell us,
And remember.
No alarm lasts forever.

Hate is a virus.

Cold resentment, barely felt,
Merely a subconscious shiver.
Buried, simmering resentment,
Deepening the gap between us.
Dog eat dog we guard our turf —
Burning bridges, sinking chances.
Nothing ever comes from nothing.
Make the effort —
Aid the struggling.

Captives of a
Stalled dimension,
All controls but forward
Unresponsive,
Inching ever closer
To the end.

Just because we did not want it,
Just because we'd never choose it,
Does not mean we will not fight it
Now that it is ours.

Brothers, sound the drums of war,
Let it be our voice of reason —
Rhythms like the march of time,
Beats pulsing to the sound of fear.
Sisters, set your children free,
All for the great ideal.
Be the drums of war,
Feel them beat within us all.

For he who stands on top,
Empire.
Enforce the dream that never was.
The lie so true it came to be,
Empire.
Blackening the history pages
Shaking all beliefs.

For the glory of the one,
Empire.
Greatness, so much smaller than its sum.
A legacy of blood,
Empire.
Twisting fates,
Erasing who we were.

Blame rotates
Around its center.

Feeling sorry,
Feeling pity for oneself —
Victimhood paralyses.
Deer in headlights,
Move or die.
Life's not fair,
Get over it.

Order, disorder.
Chaos — this chaos
Spirals ever further.

Fear the burn, kill the fire.
Fear the truth, praise the liar.
Search the heavens for a master —
You'll only get there faster.