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Prisoner's Dilemma

Alone in his cell, an inmate said,
"Truly, I have escaped the baseness of humans-
that inveterate vice which condones condemnation.”
No longer will he mistake loathing for love, enmity for
amenity or abhorrence for adoration.
Here, who you are, whether you be Gandhi or Nazi, is 
Worn proudly, unambiguously, not shrouded in incongruity.
No longer will he be forced to live a lie and deny who he 
Is. “Here, we are all the same”

No longer will he need to weave elaborate stories to cover
up your crimes. “Here we can count on your face 
the lives you took”
Looking through the prison bars he saw our dilemma:
The masks we wear and the people we pretend to be; the people
We befriend to betray in the end. He saw the disingenuous,
the hypocrisy, the ruse and the tricks,
the chaos and the lies; and he felt sorrow because
he could not free those of us still trapped by prison walls.

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The End

So this is to be the end of our friendship, huh?

I hope you didn't end it only because I said we should.

It seems the very thing that brought us together is now tearing us apart;
Such a dramatic ending yet imperceptible to everyone but us.
You wrap everything in a neat little package
Something to be discarded?

We didn't know it then but the moment we admitted it to each other was the moment it all ended. You told me you were gay and I said I was too.
Should we have kept it inside then, should we never have acknowledged it?
You told me you loved me but I said no, we can only ever be friends.

Why end it now?
On the eve of us venturing out into the world to leave our mark.
Sometimes this feels more like the beginning rather than the end
I hope that's why I feel so numb.
A single tear is yet to be shed for something that lasted nine years
But I am angry; I know you could tell. This causes me such ineffable pain.

Not for the reasons you think.
I could never resent our friendship
But you labeled it all a waste

You sit, confident that what you're doing is right and that everyone else is somehow wrong.
I'm not so confident however.
There are a few things that I know to be right, incontrovertible truths, and this is one of them.
Why can't you see that I'm hurting too?

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Pining For the Moon

Pining for the moon: 

For that far away light hanging just beyond your reach.

What do you do when trapped by life, ebbing, slipping out of sight;

Watching the world morph into unrecognizable shapes and face.

Do you wait and hold your breath, be swept up in the tide?

Pining for the moon and that long-awaited night

When cool balm of crystal light makes all calm at its sight.

Silver, blue, white: under which all becomes soft.

What hope do we have when, in this wash of 

illuminating light, they look into your face and lie?

Pining for the moon but fearing the dawn when sun erases the night

And the lies of man finally come to light.

Is abrasive truth better than false hope?

Oh that it would never be light when man’s heart shows

It’s endless night.

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Death

You are the only thing in this world that is certain
Yet do people fear your presence, bringer of peace;
your variation, your unpredictability.
But I wait for you, night after night after night
Graced only by sleep, your counterfeit.
I love death therefore I love sleep;
To be unconscious of the world around me,
unfazed, untroubled, at peace.

But sleep is only temporary; I wake to a 
world troubled, unforgiving, ironic;
A world which pushes hard against
your hopes, your dreams.
Grace me but once with your presence
so that I may sleep eternally, beyond
this cruel world.
Your kiss I seek to attain.

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Benevolent Critic

Look to the world through my eyes
and there you will see: a man who hates 
another and that other realizing he can love.
Look to the world though my eyes
and there you will find: a man with no heart
and a man who feels double.
Look to the world though my eyes 
and there you will see chaos and calm.
I am that man.
I steel myself to the world 
but it would rather feel the pearl within.
I would love to heal this world 
and allow it to take me in;
to love it, though it not me.

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On the Outside Looking In

Pen to paper once again;
As if I were God, I sit and watch
myself struggle though this bitter
brightness.
I see each outcome clearly, they make
only to appetize uncertainty.
All that is innocent I scorn and in 
all that is filthy I thrive. I try to 
stop it but how can I when I am it?
To the cruelty of life I contribute yet
yearn for peace and tranquility.
I was born from this hatred, 
denial and malice and to it I must
return in the end. But for now
I wish not to live as the thing I 
was and am to be.