It shifts from bad to worse
Expectedly, it does
Suppose it looks quite obvious
For many, counting those
Who claim the empire is to end
Split in a thousand pieces
That’s what the masterminds intend
To do – I don’t believe this
I think what we are witnessing
Is their Golden Age
And this is just beginning
The Chapter Two, first page
We’re in the new edition
That meets time challenges
We’re actors of non-fiction
A dystopian excess
We’re stigmatized forever
But we get used to this
Just never you say never
And never comes a bliss.
A mountain of lies
a river of debt
The hurricane's eye?
How much worse could it get
And then she uncovered
a mistress and lover
On her way to discover ~
why she would never recover
What fate can be worse than this
That she’s there, mood too, but not rain.
And a luck far worse than this--
I reach, wait, she misses the bus.
What kind of justice be this--
Bliss but to her, banes to bless me.
Come to kiss me, O my fate,
Wish my hard luck a hideous hell.
If not, change thy loaded dice,
Relieve my luck from its ill lease.
But then, whose fate is so fair?
To get the juice one has to squeeze.
____________________________
Tongue-in-cheek |15.07.2026 | fate, justice, kiss, luck, rain, couplets,
Love it, Respect it,
or pack your bags and head out,
for some place better.
Darling J, it’s getting worse
And I can’t believe it’s true
The puzzle fits as if I’m cursed
For the deeds I didn’t do
It is more than truth these days
What’s established is the vision
Where I’m guilty, just in case
I may take the wrong decision
To act like I have the right
To be welcomed to the ball
And as loud as they might
They shall whistle, and I’ll fall.
You won’t believe how deeply it went wrong
Much worse than we had ever feared it would
The brutal force and ignorance stride on
The mad dogs bark the cats demand more food
The government officials have succeeded
They can’t be recognized by fingertips
They’re anti- populists, exactly what we needed
To marvel at their schemes of our hardships
Countries are fictional, this world is just one land
Controlled by creatures who are clones of one another
Good job we never asked for sympathy, my friend,
So many fools believe they can plea like no other
Old devil’s dream came true, so everyone’s fed up
With milk of human kindness mixed with rain
Take off your coffee, otherwise my cream erupts
Your Wilton carpet might be covered with white stains.
As its all going well,
i fit the norms,
i go out allot,
everything seems perfect.
i forgot perfect doesn't exist,
i forgot reality isn't mine to lead,
and the palace i built stick by stick,
burnt to ashes with a single click.
i watch it fall,
in front of my eyes,
one by one,
side by side.
i forgot my reality,
what i really was.
a mistake, problem.
how could i keep the walls?
i am ruin,
whatever i touch,
whoever i love,
whenever i try.
i am ruin,
still not sure why,
but i've accepted the fact,
so i wont leap to fly.
SkUnKs!
-Gray Squirrel
10-16-2025
Witch Is Worse
Ha-Ha. Just Kidding.
Which is Worse?
Tired Of Winning
Or
Tired Of Losing?
You Might Be Surprised.
But, Some People Aren't
So, Don't Be Too:
Dis-Appointed.
-Gray Squirrel
04-08-2025
It has become much worse
Since you were gone: it seems
Your country has been cursed
And sentenced to its dreams
The empire of evil
Is more alive than ever
Again in full retrieval
And always like forever
The opposition split
Exposing one another
They show a lot of wit
In fighting with each other
Like hundred years unturned
This opposition circus
Gets their lesson learned
A lesson of no purpose
Revengers set the rules
All of their dreams come true
A doctrine of the fools
Makes old agenda new
It looks like they had sought
More wisely, and achieved
Exactly what you’ve never got
As if you never lived
So one more bitter lesson
Can’t make much sense, I know
One speaks, and silence listens
Just leave the fee, and go.
As another second ticks off the clock,
who knows what’s coming around the block.
Will today continue to be okay?
Or is something shocking coming our way?
Brace yourself, in case it's a shock. Tick tock.
They have a perfect little person
They protect them
Watch them grow
The memories are made
There live's are so perfect in every way
One day they get the news
That their perfect person
Is no longer with them
How
Why
Nothing matters anymore
Their world has changed
Their hearts are forever broken
Their lives will never be the same
No matter how old their perfect person Is
The pain is the same for every parent
Because their lives are nothing but a nightmare
They have to try and live a life
That is no longer perfect
A life that is forever missing someone
A special someone
Because that person is their child
A child that was taken way to soon
This is a nightmare that no parent
Ever wants to be stuck in
A nightmare that last for a life time
They will always love you
The only thing is that they are a parent
Who is living in
A parents worse nightmare
One that will never end
Which one is worse
A parent not being able
To feed her kids because
They can’t afford to put
Food on the table
OR
A state who chooses to
Turn down food allowances
That can help feed hundreds of
Hungry children, isn’t that
Also considered child abuse
So, which is worse
Nothing ever stays the same
And yet, in ways diverse,
Instead of real improvement,
It seems things are getting worse.
Perhaps if I were younger,
Optimistic thoughts would reign
And I wouldn’t find so much
About which I can’t help complain.
I will not list my worries
Or the reasons I feel stressed,
So, although the future’s waiting,
I think I’ll be unimpressed.
Going to exercise aerobic
Walk on treadmill everyday
Reduce foods too caloric
Get in shape in everyway
Work on personality increase to dynamic
And do a little everyday
Keep mouth closed not fanatic
Gain friends~influence people always
Let my tongue's speech be sweet not caustic
Bite my tongue when want unkindness to say
Let love and kindness become chronic
Elastic tongue keep strapped down come what may
Looked up 7 syllables words that rhyme on the internet and then tried to write a poem using them.
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