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Pride seeks Obsession with self Hugging our mirrors Telling tales of our success To any who will take a knee before us But failure still dawns for this vanity For even blind angels can find the gates If they truly feel love for one another Greed consumes Refusing to bleed It'd be a shame to lose some of our power We drink the spoils of all the other kings And laugh as they claim victory Clutching their new toys like children With no authority left to show Lust tempts Like the scent of decadent jasmine At the bottom of a cliff Our primal roar craves the attention of many No amount of dousing rain Able to quench our fiery coals We burn in the attraction And die in the flames Anger dismantles Like a mechanism with a blood red heart It eradicates by the hand of war It annihilates by the crush of a boot Its furious wind blows bare our fields of solidarity It asks for nothing But it takes everything Gluttony swindles The master of more We drink its snake oil Tub after tub Charmed of our vigor We dash our futures with its aroma All while it nurtures Distaste for our lives Envy trades Both sides of our coin Equal in value Yet we always desire the fortunes of others It barters fantasy for contentment At equal interest Leaving us destitute in our reality Sloth escapes Our need for evolution Cemented motivation Like an unfinished sidewalk Leading us nowhere new But somehow it still gets away And we remain fast in place January 20, 2016
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