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Lost Opportunity

I feel it now, I feel it forever,
What I had or what I never,
Maybe someday someway somehow,
I will move on from what I endeavor.
Is this the beginning of the end,
Or for this road is it a bend,
The only answer is in time,
For the wounds that must mend.

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Parachute Effect

Tear away the political stagnance,
Tear away the rich incompetence,

Peel away the high society,
Peel away the fake sobriety,

Pull apart the bricks and buildings,
Pull apart lustrous families and siblings.

Take off the cover that shielded the truth,
The poverty in America of the old and the youth.

Let the lies continue to collect,
reveal the truth, the parachute effect.

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War

Protruding from the wretched pores,
The stench of filth brought to earth,
Stagnating skin hanging from the sores,
With the agony of sucerian birth.
The cause of yet is undefined,
Though it seems to be figured out,
The screams continue to incline,
Not yet known whats come about.
Prepared for by none except the experienced,
Death and gore is all thats seen,
And the body's that expired hence,
So the senses become very keen.
Seeking survival for flashback,
Scared for life and in death,
The soul is burned, charred coal black,
War takes life like airborne meth.

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Someday

The burn, the lies, the scorn, the hurt,
The soul is torn from the dirt,
Brought forth by alleged professors,
The modern beliefs, these obsessors.
They throw out the accusations,
With such thoughtless fascinations,
Unbelieving the unbelievable,
Not understanding the inconceivable,
They believe that one is like them all,
Causing the good to take the fall.
He who hangs with the outcasts,
Who is not one but sees the out lapse.
They say he does what they do,
But not yet knowing what is true.
Today he's an outcast for his friends,
But society wants to make a mends,
For his achievements are unbelievable,
And they understand the inconceivable.
This will be my future, my great path,
And to those who accused me I will laugh.

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Insanity

Lost inside of his own mind,
A man free roams all his thought,
He feels the pain of his find,
He finds the answer of what he sought.

But why the pain for his invention?
An answer so forbidden and confusing,
It brings the realization of the intention,
Of what makes life so amusing.

Now lost is his meaning to live,
He roams the earth in a daze,
With resistance for his answer to give,
He stares with a constant gaze.

Now observed by an official,
So deranged are his words,
Diagnosed as a schizo,
Insanity isn't so absurd.

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Atop the Forest

I have dreams of tomorrow,
I don't focus on the past,
No regret for the sorrow,
I hope that this is going to last.
I see happiness and God's will,
The wheel of life begins to turn,
I see a heart continues to fill,
We still have so much to learn.
Ecstasy embraces our vitality,
So beautiful this thought of mine,
Rapture and candor in harmony,
Continues to increase over time.
In this vision you're by my side,
Sharing all that we gain,
Our emotions do not hide,
Living with insignificant strain.
Is this a premonition,
Or just a fantasy,
A rocky path to perdition,
A look from the canopy.

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Empty

Everything began so fast,
All I felt was a sudden collapse,
A deteriorated mood, a massive elapse.

Piece by piece it fell apart,
Remembering still it's just the start,
Then suddenly I lose all my heart.

My hunger has left me but it's still there,
The hunger for pain, and to make it all fair,
To whom I hurt, I don't even care.

I just want it back, the life I owned,
Make these demons leave me alone,
I'll take it back and set my tone.

For now no sleep is my sentence,
Revenge for trauma is my penance,
Emptiness becomes omnipresence.

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It's All Me

You are different but your the same,
In honesty I'm the one to blame,
My love drives you all insane.
I'm too soft, I'm too kind,
For all you say makes me blind,
I am different is all you'll find.
I'm too open, I'm too closed,
Sometimes I don't do what I'm supposed,
I open my chest and leave it exposed.
My heart is torn and won't be sewn,
My life was born and will be blown,
But I'll still live it like a stone.
So gallant so hard,
So absent so far.
I'm thrown to hurt and hurt for thrill,
So mentally weak but taught to fill,
I'll put it to end with the pill.
The pill is you, the kill is me,
So strange my death is meant to be,
And to our god I will flee.

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Depression

Where do I run, where do I turn,
Where do I hide or do I just burn.

This feeling it hurts, this feelings my seed,
It leads me to greatness, the feeling I need.

The blood it flows, the thoughts they fly,
The burn it shows, but gives me a high.

Sickness is science, science is taught,
But depression is guidance, guidance of thought

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Heaven?

In dreams i have seen this place,
And some reason i don't know my face.
I see the fields white like cotton,
No one heals, no ones stopping.
I see the place where i grew,
I see the face that i knew,
Pain strides for everlasting doom,
Rain subsides the gaping wound,
Mounds upon mounds of scorching regret,
Perfume the air toward the sunset,
Beautiful pink clouds bring the relief,
Nightfall begins with the belief.
Death has come to take me away,
In his casket goodbye to today.
So graceful is the clouded air,
So tasteful is the mounted stair,
The imagination brought forth to reality,
Now so beautiful i see the brutality.
The brains and minds of fellow beings,
Becomes my heaven, become my seeings.