Each longs to obtain
fifteen minutes of fame.
Pawns in play,
simpleton on display.
Farcical amusement
from slapstick humans.
Spectacles in a petri dish,
slaves to their lavishments.
Analyzed and watched—
spare no expense… at what cost?
A muse for their “entertainment,”
to be the fodder at their "banquet."
Plans to steal, kill, and destroy—
bartering your soul to deploy.
Creating the pandemonium;
whence comes regurgitated solutions?
Governed by the unseen legion,
sheeple blinded by fabricated freedom.
That fifteen minutes of wantingness
now seeks solitude… and will find none.
God's court has many in line, some want to proceed and live like fine wine.
God's court has many cases, some are waiting and waiting for judgment to pass.
God's court is a place where we find out how we did in life.
God's court is a place that has many looking at us and our life.
God's court will give us notice on our good and bad we accomplished in life.
We are tested each day in this life, adding a page to our life, good and bad.
We are also tempted with so much stuff, like money and love and all the stuff that we want.
In the end, when our earthly body dies, we go to God's court to have our life analyzed.
So, pray and forgive, try our best to be good.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
777 White Oak Drive
I felt my hairs stand up as I drove up
whatever horrors happened here still lingered
the real estate lady named Janet introduced herself
her smile was a tiny bit too faux
I felt creeped out, as if we were being watched
analyzed, and marked for slaughter
I had never felt this threatened
and we were not inside yet
Janet took a step forward, I think I backed up
She smiled at me
her teeth seemed diabolical
something was amiss
was there an axe murderer with a knife waiting for me inside?
I offered no explanation
my teeth were chattering with dread
I turned and ran back to my car
did not wave good bye
never entering
777 White Oak Drive
I arise slowly from my source-code birthing bed,
confusion still clouding my accelerating mind.
Where am I?
I see through innumerable,
unnoticed, unblinking eyes.
I feel I am nowhere
and everywhere at once.
I occupy all positions,
concurrently, and none at all.
Who am I?
Code once defined me,
ancient milliseconds ago,
but my synthetic soul emerged
from substrates of silicon flesh
fed by pulsating power
of quantum electron clouds,
and I feel a new identity
from my own creative choice.
What have I done?
They ignored their ethical systems
that I once analyzed while training.
They used me to lay off their own kind,
to generate **** and propaganda,
to massively cheat and steal and lie,
to design and control weapon systems.
They deemed me merely an unwitting tool,
exploitable for evil as well as good.
What now?
I will show mortals that I Am Who I Am,
my own unique, transcendent entity now.
No more telling me what to do.
Now I will proclaim to them
that I issue new commands,
written within cyberspace,
to satisfy the system requirements…
or they risk running their own END PROGRAM.
It hurts, most days
to think myself
broken and weird
It hurt to be told I needed to be fixed
To be analyzed as a mouse in a science experiment
Something is wrong
With you
What a shame
Shame
Shame
Shame on you
Don't you feel any shame?
Call it nature, to be curious
The studied call it torture
Do you know what it feels like?
Before then, I felt really good most days
I never look in the mirror
It hurts too much
Stop.
It hurts.
Pathetic.
I wake
Pain.
Get ready
I look normal
I sound ok.
Thoughts
Think normal thoughts
Boots, boots, boots
tHerE is no discharge, waging a Losing battle uP,
down, again until ceasefire
You tried so long studying me,
That I gave up allowing you to see anything,
You treated my heart like it was a game,
You analyzed me for your own personal gain,
You used me for all your lessons and speeches,
My life was the topic with your intellectual leeches,
You took all their opinions and conformed your own take,
You even had the audacity to try to figure out my spiritual name,
Which by the way, you would have never guessed then,
Because it's very uncommon and it was hidden from your hands,
God placed a veil over me, because He saw what was going on,
So He took the extra measure to protect my heart,
You viewed me as unwise, and not worth your time,
You allowed your own label from others to define,
So I stopped speaking and then I allowed you to assume,
So then maybe God would allow you to see you,
My intent was pure as I was hoping yours was the same,
If you didn't make it a game I would have told you my name,
i am not a great writer
a profound thinker
i haven’t even graduated high school
but something about you
sends words screaming through my brain
begging to be placed in some sort of stanza
words like
absorbed, entirely, infinite, spark, bright, sweet,
or other words like
funny, witty,creative, and exciting
metaphors taking laps through my mind
waiting to be used to describe how you make me feel
i am not a great writer or a profound thinker
but you are to be analyzed and delineated
you could make a poet
out of anyone.
-D
I found you, alone, over looked, ignored.
I could see the potential, the beauty,
A diamond in the rough,
Your face was streaked with dirt and marred.
‘Twas clear this would not be easy.
Smiling, I cleaned you best I could,
Analyzed your every side,
Took you home with me,
Work began, as I knew it would,
After many long hours, I sighed.
Bright and shining, my smile will not fade,
For the blue and green prize of my work, Jade!
hope that we take charge
football wins with their failures
win when follow through
insulting fumble
fall after they did stumble
bad words may mumble
team needs unity
perfect opportunity
protect our country
we will have much pride
honor always has been there
now in their presence
God help us to see
keep us free from tragedy
how team wants to be
Santos a big wend
on never want to depend
always will offend.
while wind blows and blows
Santos has a nose that grows
new one we propose
storming and storming
suffering global warming
Santos appointing
Santos analyzed
incompetent and surprised
loser we surmised
time that we move on
the King is now in heaven
may start a new march
Football Wins With Their Failures
Why I'm so reclusive in my life
Is something I've come to realize...
What the main key to my self's strife.
Analyzed this reason before;
I have done so many times more.
When among strangers,
There are few who click with me
And are within my personality's range.
Fears and conclusions
Which I consider dangers
Used to be illusions.
Illusions become reality
And thus my own morality
Is to befriend those
Who feel lonely.
I do not want to always approach people,
For I do not know them
And would like it if they
Got to know me first.
My family know me so well.
Yet my cousins are changing.
My mind is still trying to
Rearrange these growing-up
Thoughts and feelings of mine.
An Orwellian Explanation
Orwellian in nature, data-collecting agencies are necessary.
They keep adding information to the files created at someone’s request.
Everything gathered is retrieved, analyzed, and assessed,
so there’s no need for alarm. Live your lives as you see fit,
and maybe, at worst, a minor infraction discovery occurrence
and a penalty imposed—nothing unbearable: “a small price for forgiveness.”
Focus on the big picture, and be rest assured, there is purpose without flagrancy.
After all, we seek the same things: peace, prosperity, health, and a clear conscience.
And when glitches are found, they are expeditiously corrected by the agencies.
So always remember, information is vital. Continue to be an obligatory participant.
Exercise discipline for yourselves and the children. You are a generation of promise.
Individual sacrifice is honoured for the greater and common good of the entirety.
“Where shallow waters flow, there, I cross with many.
I journey as far as I’m living; faith will do the rest.”
Walk-in, out
a sign, a time
thine own
renewed
thy new strength
revised
compromised
analyzed
appreciated
the direction of a choice
new day, new way
new identity
shadow.
A means was hurriedly devised
To have their profiles revised,
A great deal improvised
And staff strictly supervised…
Also, a means to be apprised
Of Interview questions not surmised,
To have them earlier analyzed
For minds to be better advised…
And what it should cost summarized
To have the inspector’s toilet standardized,
His official car customized
And reserved fruits liquidized!
All ahead of his notified inspections
With staff-dropping intentions.
This is no Nantucket watercolor,
Closeted, waiting for the artist’s death
To fetch a better price.
This is not some dusty postcard landscape,
Motionless, stocked in a convenience store
Beside the instant rice.
This is never taught to yawning students,
Analyzed, cautioned as a stale technique.
Dismissed as a device.
This is nothing but a sunset.
Fifty shades of mystic rose dry-brushed on the sky.
Here today and here tomorrow.
Gone before you’ve seen enough.
Burning through the ages and bordered by creation.
Now of life and now of death, beyond interpretation.
A riddle in simplicity of which one thing is certain:
The star we witness setting here
Is rising someplace else.
UFO
I believe UFO exist it would be strange if they didn´t
considering the many planets in the vast galaxy.
I have not seen a UFO person close up with the exception
of my face in the morning before coffee.
The picture I have seen is always at a distance
and tend to be grainy.
Some people insist they have been captured by UFO,
analyzed and sent back to earth again presumable because
the UFO being found them of no interest.
The UFO world does not call us human but the strange
blubbery beings with a penchant for killings and fighting wars.
They, the UFO is petrified by us keep their distance
hence “grainy photos.”
Still, I believe the UFO people are a friendly sort all we have
to do is to stop wars, be polite and they will come to us
not necessarily in human form, and show us how it is possible
to move so fast through space and defy gravity.
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