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Lessons Learned, Through Tired Eyes

Sometimes you wonder 
why you even bother
You feel like giving up
But then the feelings get 
stronger
Maybe a dose of reality will 
make them weaker
But the potency of the voices in 
your head
Have you divided
No idea what it will take to 
reach that high again
You've given too much of your 
self to them
And it has made you spineless
Enabling them to leave you a 
perfect mess
Soaring with mentally 
fabricated wings
On bought time, when the 
meter runs out
You fall harder than the first 
rains after a drought
And it lands you back with the 
rest of the cust and grime
Then it's back scrounging up 
every dime you find
It will become your paradise
And it will cost you your mind

Copyright © Justin Rogers | Year Posted 2013



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Confident

I have uncanny resiliency 
diminishing anyone who stands 
against me, 
along w the ability to quench 
the thirst of those looking for 
clarity, 
it's  unbeknownst to me 
how they look upon me 
as anything short of great, 
i can stand on a mountain of 
their hate 
while I beckon the earth to 
quake,
 Is your soul to take 
i leave it for the gods to decide, 
whenever I need to find truth
 I just look into my daughters 
eyes, 
Because the rest of the world is 
crooked and infatuated with 
lies, 
my quest is highly strategized  
and never would I settle for 
less, 
as every letter shall stand 
capitalized to leave no question 
of regress
This point I have to stress,
There is no quality higher than 
mine 
You can sell out, I'm just buyin 
my time

Copyright © Justin Rogers | Year Posted 2013

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New Age Troubled Ways

This is only the beginning i say 
as i lay stone to build a 
foundation
To rise our empire
And lift our entire nation
Turn off the world and use your 
imagination
And listen to the shadowy voice 
of reason
Am I the only spark yearning to 
ignite change
This isn't a poem or a rap, no 
where on the vocal range
No where on the map but I tell 
you this fights staged
Realizing the same shit ends up 
on the front page
Why are we so enveloped with 
crazy and deranged 
Why can't we get past our 
materialistic selfish ways
See man down and our society 
leaves him where he lays
Nobody needs a handout 
except those who can afford to 
pay
Along with those who work the 
system and sit on their ass all 
day
Contributing to nothing leaving 
no responsibility to be had
The way I see it this system is 
a dead beat dad
Who doesn't acknowledge he 
has a child 
Unless the child can support 
him and it makes the child 
mad,
Then the child acts up and they 
say he's being bad
So they put him in time out and 
make the other children hand 
over their lunches
But when the child is hurt he 
has to mend his own crutches
When the child is sick he has 
buy his own medicine
And dads nowhere around to 
give discipline 
Clearly dad don't care
Clearly something is wrong 
here
I'm talkin to walls cuz I swear 
to god I see them breathin
That rust stain I thought was 
were blood was seepin
 My world is alive but why is it 
dieing
Am I the reason or am I just 
surviving
While this place perishes 
And I find myself crying
Are we not trying
To save ourselves from 
drowning or are we to busy 
individually to notice our 
surroundings
Living day to day as if there's 
no reason to pray for tomorrow
We've been numbed to the pain 
and sorrow
By blindly passing by the 
coldest of hollows
Disregarding compassion in 
exchange for self growth
Coincides with leaving the rest 
with no hope
When there's nothing left to 
whom you gonna gloat
When the lake is dry how the 
hell you gonna float
This is only the beginning I say 
as I paddle the first stroke

Copyright © Justin Rogers | Year Posted 2013


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