Integrate
The shadow
You will be
With me
Lucidity
And unto its becoming
One
The egos
Interlinked
Could be
Increasingly
Less prone to war
Less likely to
Project it more
Endure the grips of psyche
Tightening
Sense of self
Awareness
Heightening
Frightening
When you think it through
That I am merely
Thoughts of you

For they once
Roamed these halls
Innocent
Learning
To be better humans
And into them
Turning
But suddenly yearning
For home
In an instant
For mommy and daddy
Could not be more distant
When bursting forth
Barrel blasts
Shatter reality,
Not yet a decade
Of fragile morality
Splattered in
Evil
Incarnate
Depravity
All the unvarnished
Unraveling
Tragedy,
Tragically
Yet again
Weaponized,
Minimized
Merely an afterthought
Footnote
Politicized

Friends have been dead to me
Begged me
On bended knee
Spare me your pity
Your judgment
Your envy
I just want your friendship
I don’t need
Your enmity
Only you
Make me
Your enemy
Then be my friend again
Nothing could change that
But they
Lose their way
And we cannot rephrase that
Without sounding deep
In the worry about
We can only cut deep
In more reasons to doubt
One another’s integrity
Manly
Identity
Loyalty
Honesty
Honestly, everything
Save for the rain on parades
In good fun
And that’s all that I meant
By the quick-to-draw gun

Look at me
Look at me
Narcissistic
Tendency
Enemies
Nemeses
Everywhere
Dependency
Unfriending
Distant memories
Becoming
Penitentiaries  
To place the blame
In block chain cages
Gamify
The dread AI
Then manufacture
Your outrages
Cheap
From its
All-seeing eye

Childhood made this
Default to
Fantastical
Maturation
Then forbade it
Impractical
Always though
Something to hide
And yet simplify
Something inside
All the others would
Vilify
Vying for more
Stories told
They’d control
But I found my form
Still most befitting
The scroll

Funny how
The pinnacles
Of civilized
Could circumcise
And always find a reason
To make endless warring
Justified