Who is an expert?
Who says that we shouldn't speak?
Who are you?
Who am I?
Who amongst us all is dead inside?
Who will bring peace?
Who can prevent our fall?
Who will help us all stand tall?
Who is our master?
Who is the chain?

Why must the best of us suffer most of all?
Why is our success measured in height?
Why does division exist if we promote to not divide?
Why have we moved forward? Why have we moved backward?
Why has injustice come out now?
Why must the past be repeated?
Why are we on a diverse planet?
Why are we here?

Formulaic
Fit the mold with some cutout jokes
Replaceable
Disgraceful process
As a person
I must confess
Let me explain:
Such comedy found in humorous things
Yet all concepts can be considered
Funny to one
Something else to others
Perhaps hateful
Distasteful
Force a laugh?
Means it was never funny
To none
But executive mindsets
For success in such uncertainty
Variety is the prerogative.

Behind your tooth
Home to the truth
Spit out poison--
No matter if what you say is true

I clenched my hand
Warm as the sun
Shook yours
Cold as snow
Together we may make neutrality
But the fight that shall come
With the construction of the foundation
Drives me away
For your disturbed insides
Push me back a ways

Couch
Stained with an unknown substance
A television
Channels, all the same
To static
At least that is distinct
Future?
Never put much thought to it
Windows barricaded
Outside sources breed panic
Internet
A place to hide
Safety net soon to be snipped
Yet these images...
The same
Videos...
Looped for hours
Music...
Playlist of repetition
Today is the worst
And tomorrow...
...will be the same

Empathy
In an apathetic world
Covered up with a shirt
Stitched together with pandemonium

One day
The automatic doors
Recognize my presence
Shifting apart
Like the gates of heaven
Except if heaven
Sold two-dollar hotdogs
Along with one dollar pretzels
Grabbed the usual:
Jerkey
Chips
Soda
Nothing else to it
I felt like being a little crazy
So I grabbed a chocolate bar too
Such an adventurer.
To my surprise behind the counter
An older gentleman
Whistled away
As if there was joy in such a place
One by one
Totaled up the items
Then it slipped out:
"I gotta say, sir, why do you still work here?"
Did I offend?
I pray not
For the rage of an old man
Cannot be tempered
He gave a chuckle
Put down the bar and said
"Well, I'm not dead yet...
...might as well go out, meet some new friends."

Waiting for a train
That will never come
Left the station
Disregarded the nation
Chance to fight
For peace
Safety
Sanctuary
Denied.
By the one thing to deliver me
Into corruption
Soon to be snuffed out
By me.
Others may not agree
Yet this is how it shall be
Eliminate all
For their empire to fall.

Like a storm that you can't predict
Nature of the trick
So unusual
No longer useable
In the remnants of reality
Use it wisely, just like all things
A weapon or a solution?
Up to what your consciousness dictates.

We never evolved.

Oh by God
I miss her
She's not gone far
Not yet hopped in death's car
Yet me heart drifts on wishin'
For a day with no time to end
No need to look at the hours
When you're all that
I
have
got.

Torn apart
Poison digested ages ago
Comes back with a vengeance
Firm conditions  
While I've been in this...
Meadow of permanent darkness
The stars shine bright
As a means to taunt me
Freedom
You hold the secret
***** of light
That die like all things
But once the pain is inflicted
Onto my vessel
Vestal in dreams
Defiled in reality
White tinted beam
Free me from this degree
Rebuild my spark
With rock and a shock.

Such a parasite
Sight for tired eyes
Created by our race
Enslaved each of us
Such irony
Common as debauchery
Solemnly swear
To eliminate such philosophical ******
Greenback
Portrait on the front
Exchange it daily
Hardships removed...
...replaced with more strife.

Professionals
Hand out mere suggestions
Backed by years of
Study
Dedication
Long nights
Fright
Flaws
Wait...
They're human too?!

Feasibility
Brings out passivity
Passed the threshold of care
Hold on to this thought
For it's all that we got.

Redwater
Unknown origin
Plentiful
Yet I cannot make heads or tails
As to one fact beyond logical boundary...
Why is it in the underground?
Amongst the liquid form
An object
Collides into my grey untied shoes
A party mask
The fancy name alludes me
Is this item meant to delude?
Or illustrate a solemn truth...

Maybe somethings have no value...
...or maybe it's hidden?

All of my friends
Betrayed to rusted machines
Filled with corks
Screws
Lugnuts and bolts
Tragedy struck like lightning
Noose is ever-tightening
Piece of machine
Lies within my frame
Not willing
Since it was not in my billing
Above the pay grade
That an F could afford
Lost to machines
We created and now cause us to decay
I knew that I would die
But not as a ***
With no march, absence of a marching drum
Beat my flesh and bone
Weather me like a storm
Rain poured on my face
Pushed aside
Thrown to the curb
Hurts to be the one?
Shift your feet at once now
Carry on!

Such renewable resources
Plenty to share
Amongst all
Yet what shall become
Of our broken husks
When the source of renewal
Runs dry...
How long until we die?
Should I start packing my stuff?
Cut my losses
Even if I know
The loss has ended alongside the sun.

System remains unchanged
Cracks still the same
Paved with new foundation
...
Around the cracks.

Hard times
Put your life in perspective
Check out the specs
Never earned your respect
What else did I expect?

The destruction that you can't predict
Times that make us sick
No time
For cleaning up the "ick"
One quick clean
Every day of the week
Protect the meek
Sickness attacks them
Happens forevermore

Maybe there's something
In disguise
Blessings don't come cheap
Devilry is inexpensive
Easier to stab another
Then to comfort a brother

Good things
Seem bad at first
What if all good things
Come with their own curse?

So you'd like to leave?
Just sign here
It's a formality
To reduce abnormality
The difference is easy to facilitate
When bound by words on a page
Wait, you want to stop?
Just sign here
You can't avoid the paper
Just sign here
For this will be your life
Deep inside you know
This to be the rhythm of modern life
You'd like to prevent it from taking over?
Well, guess what...
You can!
All you need to do...
...is just sign here.

Fought for the flag
I pray to every day
Now this country
Has gone "funny"
Protected us from the prey
Served my purpose
Time to be thrown away
Sidelines grow closer
I am forgotten, what a drag.

Wake up
Get out of your chamber
That makes you lamer
Cook mediocre breakfast
[Burnt]
Like every time
Get in the shower
Clean every inch
[You burnt the toast]
Brush the bones
Out of your skin
Pain that's akin
To a lengthy equation
[Can't believe it]
Get on the bus
Travel down the lane
Toward work met with disdain
[You burnt it like always]
I burnt it
Down to embers
Maybe home is where I'll go
This isn't my stop
[Your collar's out of line]
[You'll soon run out of time]
[Already half-way]
[Down the throne]
The bed is where I belong
[Sorry boss, I'm ill]
Work will be done
Just without me.

Descended deep
Into a sleeping realm
Couldn't be believed
Unless in a film
The world bounced
Like the castle
At a 7-year-old's party
Giddy and pure
Yet when I leaped
Toward the clouds
The ground burst like a balloon
Descended like a fallen angel
What happened to those days?
When did the giddiness...
...get snuffed out like a torch?

I wish I understood
Such a concept
But it's not my deal
Interrupted by feel
No matter the angle
Pray for an angel
Never shall descend
For a meager scenario
Yet to me...
It defines who I'll be.

To feel safe
To feel wanted
To feel alive
To feel like I'm flying
Away
From pain and decay
Nothing else to say
This is why we play
Our role out
In a group
Dedicated
To a false god
Promising love and peace
To the world, forever far.

Uh oh...
Something went wrong
That tends to happen
When writing a love song.

Frantically sprinting
Down a corridor of twilight
Dead end reached
Grabbed violently
Spun around 180
A figure with a twisted spine
The shape of an S
Mouth unhinged
From out of it came
A static voice:
Once I make a fist
Some life will be dismissed
11 inch long fingers
Bundled together
Like a dead spider's limbs
Awoke I sat up in my bed
Upon my nightstand
Light emerging
The phone is ringing...

Every piece
I find of you
Draws me closer to your essence
Cannot cope with your absence
Blue is my color
For every piece, I come across
The more your presence overcomes
Parameters of my heart
I'll shatter them and join up with you
Leave everything behind
While time cannot rewind
Today it shall be streamlined
For every waking hour
Spent in decay
Miss the one who always
Guided me down pathways
May have been the mosquito
That made you dread tomorrow
Yet you cured my vertigo
As my personal quest
Call me obsessed...
...but I must cure the repressed

May be hard
To be torn apart
From broken land
Such is the tides of sand
Take the heart, turn to a martial art
No longer in this plane...
Through a story which I can't explain
Yet I shall sustain
Subdue overthinking inside me
Gone to the black sea
Much like memories
Which die every hour
But...
A scrapbook binds me to the soil
Good times
All-around
For you, I'll make 100 and more

In a world full of noise
The only sound that retains my attention
Is your voice.
Removes all the tension
Once there was silence
In a darkened hole
Secretaries that go for strolls
Tired of the paper
Driven to violence
National caper
But
Everything is alright
Just fine
For I cast the line
Into the deep blue, reflecting the sunlight
Not what I envisioned, a storyline
No more need for a hotline
Chipped at life, I've found the goldmine
Everything will be fine
You were the sign.

Dropped a candy
Round as a bra cup
Brightly labeled with a "T"
Striped
Blue and white
Wonder what it could mean
Fast forward
Two years
Look back
Down into the crevice
Abandoned land
Did it move?
...
What was that noise...?
It's about time
The ingredients were revealed

Staring at trees
Shaking and sway
Only entertained
For I can't look away
Longing for days
When I had more patience
A little bit of bravery
Confidence, even just a speck
Today I will leave
Understand the danger
Of running into strangers
Exhale of the lungs
Tomorrow the funeral
What is the world trying to tell me?
Our time has expired?
Humanity will be retired?
Don't want to sleep when I'm not even tired
Let me leave when I've become
What I've aspired.

Debris on the shore
They said everyone was poor
In faith
Fortune
Now fate crumbled our luck
Bunch of shmucks
Running amuck
"When will help come?"
"Who will save us?"
The ones in their tower
Debating on how to solve a problem
That kills people by the hour
Come sit and cower
What the fathers wanted...
Balance of power
Hurting us more than needed.

Standards everchanging
Academics
Beauty
Health
In relation to the nation
Never maintaining
Forever a remix
Procralimed by a snooty
Individual
Flowing with wealth
Bankrupt in understanding
If everyone began to harm
We'd idolize it as a norm
No matter the charm
It'd be a uniform thunderstorm

Untouched
Pure of human touch
Now time will tell
When we deem it to be "too much"
Burn it down...
While giving a momentary farewell...
Oh well.
Let's go, boss wants 20 more of these
Down to the ground

Nobel pieces
First place slot
Hard workers deserve those
Or so I thought
How long have I been faking?
Movie always in the making
Center stage
Should I gauge success?
Never truly felt impressed
All on the shelf, trophies of trophies
At the cost of a fee...

Proud to come this far
Scrounged through the muck and tar
Now at the very top...
Yet the abuse never stops
Superior to who?
I just wanted to be a hero to you.

If my vocal cords
Can't produce a sound
To save the joy you've drowned
Unfortunate
Cannot save you
Why even continue?
Hand back my time, detinue
Or as I lay down
Gazing up at your frown
You're not just a noun
Remove the ****** gown
No longer in that town...
Hidden away in the brown
Freed from a breakdown
Prevented a meltdown
Like a flame eclipsed by a wave
Spirits never caved
The soul I had to save...
...no longer a slave
In the deepest blue
Try to shake off the residue.

I pray for an answer
Life is a multiple choice question
With no pre-written hints
So how will anyone find out...
...how to excel at it?

Blackest night
Absence of light
Line of light passes through the cracks
Take a glimpse
Too much for me
No one else it could be
Except for the daily check-in
Everything around my head
Pictures of static
For my emotion
Locked in the attic
Cannot analyze
The heart behind it all
Darkness is merely the absence of light
Yet deep inside resides plenty of strife
Asking me to survive
For what?
The faucet no longer pours
Only drips until it's sealed
Thankfully the mirror
Too dark to see
The scars within my iris
A large chamber for liquid
In a minute
It could be my new home
Come visit my catacomb
Found the cure to my syndrome.

Oh, so we're playing a game?
My anger exceeds
A game of Monopoly
Go Fish for another
Don't call me your brother
I've connected the lines
One, two, three
Connected four
Resist the urge to label you a *****
For neither was the Mastermind
Tripping down a candy lane
Candy Land is one you're always in
Questioning me daily
Where did you go?
Who were you with?
How are you so late?
Didn't know I brought home Trivial Pursuit
Category is paranoia
Oh look! I've found you.
Back in the day
Once thought you were cute
But all things are
Until they get in your car
Game of Scrabble
Nothing makes sense
Took a Risk
Now this is my Life
Devoid of a Clue
Can't see how I'll pull through
Perhaps my exit is long overdue
Crumbling down
Dominoes
The problem we can't just skip
Get ready
Tonight we play Battleship.

What's rage?
Rampage on a stage
Called the world
Never really known, constantly unfurled
CLOSE THEIR EYES
IT BURNS THROUGH YOUR DISGUISE
BUT TO THEIR SURPRISE
THEY'RE THE REASON YOU SERIALIZE
Step back.
No time to crack
Daily times, it may rise
Commonplace human demise
Guide your struggles, create not destroy

What's joy?
Something earned playing with toys?
Gathering a solid grade
For academics is your trade
All of these gaps
Happiness is a time-lapse
Everyone digs for its remaining wraps
Can't think of a time where it didn't collapse...
But that's alright.
It is no blight
Merely a runaway
For in due time, we'll meet halfway
It never remains, so why should we feel betrayed?

Stuck up like a tree
Fall down as burnt lumber
When someone reaches final slumber
It'll be represented by a number.

Why must I feel
Like an alien on a distant planet
One and the same
To you.
To me, the difference is night and day
Rise up for the morning
As I weep for twilight.

Humanity has lost its humanity

Peel back the flesh
Smash through the bones
Of enemies misunderstood
Merely
Piece of firewood
Tossed to the pile
Sicker than bile
Such a juvenile...
How did this come together?
No questions asked
Do what
I thought was good
Now it's not
Reduced to an ocelot
Cater
Toward the mass extinction
So many more
Go off to die
Mementos
Turn to memories
Remove this career
From around my neck
Diplomats reveal flaws...
...yet I extinguish them
But are these flaws
To the universe?