It’s been a long road
No sense of direction
No ending in sight
A challenge at every junction
But it all leads to the same destination
A steady rough road
No lines painted
No guidance for me to follow
A flow that is always flowing
From corners to long stretches
Riding every bump
Slamming into every apex
Never stopping
Never slowing for a speed bump
Flying everything into the air
Over and over again
Pot holes getting deeper and deeper
Like being punched in the gut
Over and over again
Confusing and mind altering
Tiring every corner of the mind
As the long road continues
Still no end in sight
In the silence, where the stillness is born,
where the line between illusions and truth is torn.
You can imagine anything you see,
yet in the silence, the truth will be.
Alone, with no distractions of any kind,
the feelings of the heart, the thoughts of the mind.
A mind altering experience, as never before,
to those who open to silence, knocking at their door.
The past the present, where hindsight is seen,
in the silence, the mind is washed clean.
Imaginations And the truths that be,
in our silence they present themselves to you and me.
With every thought, feeling, and emotion that we feel,
alone in our silence we will find what is real.
For life itself, in the silence you see,
shows the truth to you and me.
In the silence the truest of battles are fought,
where the truth will prevail against every thought.
You begin to change with each truth that is shown,
in the silence and it’s suffering you have grown.
It’s a journey that we each should take,
to understand our every mistake.
To allow the silence to fulfill its very part,
as it begins to teach us how to live the truth in our heart.
10 April 2025 1:08 PM
The sky is crying
Humanity is dieing
Giving way to transhumanist enslavement
Through mind altering entertainment
Cyborg glory can be yours a body that won't die
Just let them change your DNA and believe their every lie
Diseases and overcrowding the preach from every nation and mountain
Shortage of food and public housing climate change all lies from their poisonous fountain
Get your mrna shot it's the only chance man has got
Look here look there fear everything but our boiling pot
Soon the useless eaters will all be dead
And the usefull will have our chip in their head
Then satan will stand where he should not
Declaring himself as the one and only god
But his reign will be short lived
His chains are forged the pit lay open with its waiting lid
Yeshuas Kingdom of a thousand years
Will ensure that His gospel reaches every ear
Then satan will roam for a short while more
Then the weeds that spring up with him will be burned
And new heaven and earth God will make
And forever we'll live with Him where sin never again will wake
Have you ever wondered that/
Tobacco can affect your mental health/
Think about your life/
Before you lit that first cigarette or cigar/
Did you ever get in trouble/
Did you have any drama/
Did you fight with your lover or soul mate/
Were you ever rude or a hate warrior/
Did your heart turn black after that first cigarette/
Tobacco affected my own mental health/
What happened to me/
Could happen to you/
And, it could be worse/
Tobacco is a harmful substance/
It's like a drug/
It does crazy things to your mind/
You might think it relaxes you/
But, it actually does more harm than good/
You get cancer from Tobacco, too/
Tobacco adds to your mental health issues/
Tobacco means more trips to doctors/
You snuff out your divine light/
By using Tobacco, it's a mind altering substance/
Make your divine light pure, always shining bright/
By saying no to Tobacco/
Never mess up your mind, keep your mind, that light, pure/
God don't want you to put poison in your body/
Tobacco is poison/
Say no..../
Be pure.../
Keep your divine light pure/
Watching a loved one struggle with addiction is heartbreaking,
witnessing a life full of promise languish in the numbness provided
by mind altering substance is difficult enough
but frequently relying on the medical profession to save them
when the break down of the body that comes
with using harmful chemicals surfaces, is excrutiating
and sensing the full possibility of a young life
limited to getting the next drink or hit
is something that can shatter your happiness
if you allow it to become your focus
The way I survive is to look for beauty
in the simple things in life and lean hard
on God, family, and friends because
life is still beautiful underneath the layers of pain
They gave our children mind altering
poisonous drugs to eat,
and we said thank you.
They gave our children excessive violence
and sadistic sex films to see,
and we said thank you.
They performed mutilating surgery
on our children’s' genitals, and we said
thank you.
They turned public education into
propaganda and indoctrination,
they blasphemed God and Faith,
they took away our free speech,
took away our free and fair elections,
murdered children about to be born,
telling us to bend over again
this next election --
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you
thank you.........................................
Do you love me
Do I even care
Care enough to find out
Care because I should
Should I ask you
Should you respond
Respond to my question
Respond with the truth
Truth is I do
Truth is I don’t
Don’t break my heart
Don’t let me break yours
Yours faithfully
Yours truly
Truly human
Truly Madly Deeply
Deeply devoted to you
Deeply disturbing
Disturbing behavior
Disturbing my peace of mind
Mind altering drugs
Mind numbing
Numbing all the pain
Numbing my thoughts inside
Inside I’m screaming
Inside you is nothing
Nothing I can understand
Nothing that I want to
To all your lies
To all your sins
Sins against my heart
Sins I can’t forgive
Forgive me for the craziness
Forgive me just this once
Once you do I can relax
Once you can finally decide
Decide what you want
Decide what comes next
Next in this life
Next just beyond
Beyond what you are
Beyond what we will be
Be together forever
Be apart for as long
Long as you need me
Long as I live
Live to know the real you
Live to show you me
Me…
You…
Blitz of Words Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Silent One
Place: Honorable Mention
The time has come to face the facts.
Let's stop getting ourselves off track.
Doctors push the drug that helps them the most.
While it makes us feel like a ghost.
We know that we sometimes feel a little off.
Let's hope we do not get knocked off.
Some of the drugs that they do give us.
They only seem to hide us.
Mind altering is what the doctors will not say.
Because they do not want to scare us away.
Drugs of the mind alerting kind have no hope.
It might as well be legal dope.
Dwelling in dysfunctional places
Where happines is a bridge too far
Stress is etched on many faces
Suffering from emotional scars
Drugs take many on a euphoric trip
But when they crash, their emotions slip
Leaving them yearning for another high
That feel good feeling that money can buy
How do we achieve happiness
Without mind altering substances
Can we get that feeling of bliss
Or are we doomed to suffering's abyss
Nirvana is what so many seek
To escape a world so bleak
Take me to Nirvana!
Let me reach that blissful peak!
9-4-2022
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many
thieves now
in the world to be
constantly distracted
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many
people saying things
early and not puctual
with their actual,
personal truths
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many
conspiracy theorists blinded
by mislead teachings
and certain mind altering sources
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many
wrongfully strategized ideas
acted out in the wrong
places causing damaged vehicles
and unnecessary frustrations
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many cold
hearts being unfaithful
hearts full of sincere warmth
lying to themselves
and being totally and completely humbled later
i draw a line
anywhere that happiness
is a guide
there are too many places
utterly forgotten
and completely usable for
purposes of mind
relaxation and therapeutic rehabilitation
Thank God For Blessing Me With a Searcher's Mind
Feeling alone….overwhelmed….and conquered….trying to remain in a dispositional state of mind by contemplating ways of making what appears to be impossible, possible….in this realm of what is.
Struggling with the mind, and attempting to substitute the patterns of enticing and gripping destruction with approaches to overcome, endeavoring to convince the brain to alter habits that defy logic, by making the intangibles, tangible….in this realm of what is.
A crack, and then a light escaping from consciousness, and a glimpse of presence of mind altering joy and blissful reality, but once again elusive, dissonant, and inconsistent….in this realm of what is.
And now feeling ill-fated and defeated, but forever seeking to overcome the addictive entrapment, in order to find peace….in this realm of what is.
One moment a feeling that you have conquered….the next….falling into a state of despair with a belief that overcoming will never be possible….in this realm of what is.
There is no need to humour me,
The soup du jour rabbel
can be quite unentertaining ;
Instead ,amuse me...be my muse ,
provoke my thoughts with yours,
Let's untie the knots of convenience,
social norms which are found on any pasture...
A-muse is not one of humour ,but
Of mind altering expansion which stretches
the limits of one's limitations...
A-muse me with a pleasure not of this world...
The algorithms are at work today
Gathering information of what you do or say
Google and Facebook work away
Gathering data about you in every way
If you jay walk or use your phone in the car
A photo of you will be taken from afar
And before you go home tonight
A fine will be emailed to you when the match is right
So Alexia at home will talk to you
Putting on your lights and music too
And she will know you like no other
More about you than your own mother
And think about Orwell’s 1984 novel
Has come with Artificial Intelligence gavel
When a government through the information gathering
May consider re-education centres for mind altering.
© Paul Warren Poetry
The fairies are whispering
A beauty with long dark brown curly hair and eyes
The color of a walnut tree
Has captured the heart of their fairy king.
They heard he is even going to bestow the special
Fairy water wedding ring
Which has unique powers for royalty.
The fairies are whispering
This evening
It is a love that fulfills his destiny.
Get this a human has captured the heart of our
Fairy king.
In another time this would of been mind altering
Wouldn't you agree?
The fairies are whispering
Their king is marrying
By the special powers that be.
A human has captured the heart of our fairy king.
With this ring I thee marry so there is no sting
We both live for eternity.
The fairies are whispering
They now have a queen and fairy king.
tiny hole in the wall
their real business
putting on plays
but during the day
a mini little art exhibit
tucked away yet
open to the public
i used to slip away
at lunch time
a five-minute walk
entering their park
was mind altering
peacefully delectable
quietly serene
it was a treat that was sublime
a pampering treasured
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
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