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We were born sinners

Each of us

Only beginners

Our betrayal is tasteful

In the viewers mouthful

We deny survival for creativity

They devour us with mouths starving

See the players on the stage

The designer misbehaved

Pull the strings

And see if they can be saved

Let the broken be replaced

Turn to dust

If you can’t change

This place is lunacy

Let it fill me

Let it take me

And I’ll sing my praise

In place of the lost days

This is purpose

This is pleasure

In this madness there is no measure

We are

And we will be

We give our sins tastefully

A sacrifice

Worthy of ourselves

The bee’s sanctity

Is in it’s willingness to sting

Fade

Your malice is contagion

Your vitriol is wicked

You swallow and spit

In your spite

I am merely a vessel

To carry this sickness for you

But no more

I have learned through

Rehearsed injury

That if I don’t let you

You can’t touch me

You are merely a shade

And I am free

Free to find myself

Without this toxin in my blood

Unchained to find my bliss

Unrestrained in my smile

A nightmare memory

A flashback story

Is all you are to me

Because as tightly as you

Held on to me

I was brave enough to let go

And now you fade

You fade.

Bliss

We all speak in kind of

The suffering

Of the human condition

But some how we are restrained

When it comes to the other side

Of the equation

For bliss is transcendent

In humans

It’s in being easily amused

It’s laughter

It’s ignorance

It’s honesty

It’s purity

Bliss comes in forms countless

Bliss comes in the imperfect and the beauty

Exhilaration

A breathless second

Anticipation

Ecstasy

Bliss takes forms in hide and seek

And olly olly oxen free

It is the other side of being alive

That bonds us all

Cry for Change

Increasingly my generation

Looks not for the next shiny new device

But the cracked paint on the windowsill

We thrive in the cities

We beg to be still

Millennials, Xennials, every kid

Who comes next

They will see this world with fresh eyes

And their first cry

Will be for change

It’s easy to dismiss

To play that game

Call us snowflakes

Put us in a safe place

But we’re the ones who are becoming

History

With no living wage

No appropriate childbearing age

You better pin your hopes

That it’s the young that will change

This America

You better believe we’ll be paying the cost

And before everything is lost

An army of kids will be marching

In the streets

A legion bent on

Making the world a better place

So we don’t ask anymore

Another school shooting huh?

In those casual tones

That betray our empathy

The kids are making history

They have the most to lose

They have the right to choose

And with the old in death throes

They have endured such abuse

You better believe

You’re watching history

And these kids who you

So casually dismiss

Will arise from the ashes

While you hold the matches

And rule the world

Companion

Oh my retiscent friend

Hushed, closedmothed, mute

Always present

Come

Let us entwine

Let me nuzzle your neck

And smell spice and dead flowers

Let me grasp for you

Release me at the last second

Oh this sweet complication

How I covet your harmony

How you have such disdain for my desire

That makes me smile

This sweet banter

If only I could forget

How close we were
If only you didn’t know

That your patience always

Leads to victory

Kiss me and let my regrets

Fall away

You are oblivion
and I am fire

Yet we are bound together

By my scars

And by your chains

Tempt me

With your silent smirk

See if I will fall

A Day in the Life

I am awash in the sunrise

I am alive

Regret is a whisper

As my ego and id
mock each other in

A playground fight

Another form of escapism

Another poison rationalization

Another second hand tick

Where I am drowning in the sound

I always want faster

I always want the clock to obey

But the chaos that creates

The peace in my soul

Can wait and wait

I am a secret

In a painfully obvious way

I am awash in the sunrise