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Story of My Life

I shouldn't be here
these people are not my friends
story of my life

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Paradoxical Thought

I live in a box where I'm constantly barraged by a personal concoction of paradoxacle thoughts and it haunts me -
and at the cost of any and all of my previous notions, 
I question my very existence 
as a prawn in the shadow of an infinite ocean.
In the face of adversity I wade through a vast uncertainty, 
disect to reveal a dichotomy that evades intellect universally 

rendering the fruits of my efforts in vain, 
the only knowledge I've gained 
is the knowledge that I don't truly know anything- 
and if it mattered at all in the past it was thanks to the knowledge I lacked.

curiosity leads to questions,
and their answers breed concern
everytime I make a connection it only reveals to me there's more to learn.

I'd be remiss not to admit I miss the bliss of ignorance-
things were so much simpler before the connections commenced to wreck my conscience

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A Camera Obscura

you view the world through your very own lens
with a picture of you and me that could never develop in your dark room.
and you'll never see the world for what it is 
when you're always focused on the negatives.
we couldn't keep the pose we held before the flash,
then we started to lose focus- things were moving too fast. 
and now you missed your shot,
the memories obscured 
in your search for picture perfect- the images blurred. 

and now the frame will remain vacant-
waiting patiently 
as it longs for that picture perfect enough to fill it's vacancy

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Traded It All In

I see you at the methadone clinic,
in it to win it
you got a long life ahead 
but only ten minutes to live it
I know it seemed like you had a lot more at the begining
but u went and traded it in for a heroin addiction
scabs lace the skin,
your face deminished and thinning
you dropped the ball again
and you ain't even finished the first inning

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The Path To a Massive Collapse

I'm on the path to a massive collapse like the NASDAQ
I never asked for your lack of compassion so you can have it back
and love is just a mask that we wear when we act tragedies
just as fast as it happens you're snapped back to reality
trapped by your past as you battle morality 

it was bad while it lasted 
always in the aftermath of disaster
like back when I smashed the gas and crashed through that house with the hatchback
and after that, if only to add to the excitement
I was snatched by a task force and slapped with a stack of indictments

I've basked in my doubts and the shadows it casts
on the reality of happily ever after,
if or when exactly it's supposed to happen
and after I've passed into ashes, my name scratched in epitaph
if, in fact, there's an afterlife- will it have me?

if this all an elaborate test did I pass, though I acted badly?

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Freedom Is Only Relative

our freedom's only relative, when everytime you watch the news,
they're beaming haunting images of
the lives lost, abused...
then we wash it down with a montage of flying flags and sauring eagles
so we stand to pledge allegiance to the lesser of two evils

a subliminal reminder, for the few at home who dare refuse 
"freedom" as defined by a particular set of rules

there are those bound by chains, 
kids with guns
surrounding tanks...

while at home, the "free" complain of dwindling funds 
beneath towering banks...

free....well, relatively

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Intention's Deafening Din

though your actions speak loudly, 
I can't hear a thing 
beneath the deafening din of your intentions.
If it's true of beauty, that it comes from within
then, it's that which you wager from holding it in.

confounded, I struggle to grasp how this happened 
to the heart that once made you feel love ever-lasting
the same one that made you ashamed for your actions,
then stifled regret
and placed blame in it's absence

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Avert Your Eyes

I exude grandeur-
but just when noone's watching
please avert your eyes