Hey! Um, there isn’t going to be a story post this week, today. In fact I don’t know when next there will be. Entirely because I haven’t come up with any story ideas in a while. To give you a little inside baseball I tend to be weeks ahead on stories. However, I haven’t had an idea in awhile. I don’t intend to stop writing short stories, just i don’t know when the next one will be. Not happy about it but it is what it is, i guess. Anyway, that’s all I have to say for now. Still, going to be four poetry posts per week. That’s not going away. Maybe I’ll repost some of the original stories I released on here, but truth be told not thrilled about the idea, so we’ll see.
Thank you!
As you might be able to guess from the title there is no content being posted here. Instead this is simply a short thanks.
Thank you from me to you for all the views, likes and comments in 2021. You don’t know how much it means to me that anyone looks at what I post let alone more than in 2020.
Also I hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a fantastic New Year!
Hope to see you all in 2022 for more content.
Update
Hey everyone! This is just a quick update post to let you know that from tomorrow (Monday 21st September) there will be five posts a week for the rest of the year.
Starting by breaking my own rules
Hi everyone, this is my first post and just like the title says I’m going to start by breaking my own rules. Well its less a rule and more a statement I put in the About section of this site, but that’s just splitting hairs. So I said everything I write is and will be creative, but I’m going to start by talking (briefly I promise) about my influences when I write, anything really. So here we go.
My influences come from a lot of different places but are really no different, I’d guess, than where anyone else would get inspiration, namely books, films, TV (what little I watch), music, games (my favourite medium) and just everyday life in general.
Now that probably sounds like a wide range of places to take inspiration from, and it is, but still the genres I tend to gravitate most toward are fantasy and sci-fi related (I’m not writing science-fiction each time, sorry). That doesn’t mean I don’t consume anything outside those genres, it just means that is what resonates most with me and inspires me to write. Some examples would be Mass Effect, Star Wars, Elder Scrolls, Dune, Witcher (books and games), Destiny and Halo.
But I think that little introduction is enough for this first post, and I swear that from now on the posts will not be focused on me (and my ramblings). In fact a lot will likely be poem type posts. I won’t give any exposition to such posts. I’ll just post them and you can interpret their meaning in a way that resonates with you.
Your Labels Are Fake
How many more times are you going to deny?
Times are tough but you still act like the victimised.
Drawing comparison to atrocities of the past.
Yet in all truth you’re the one who should be nailed to the mast.
Stop, look, listen and don’t do anymore talking.
Cause what I see is but a segment of a brain that doesn’t tick.
Too busy gobbing off as though you are meant for something different.
But you are a fad.
One that spews only vitriol.
Sick of seeing you treated like a God.
True heroes don’t hide when times are hard.
They put up their fists and prepare for war.
Instead you run as far away as you can.
Pitiful how you think you won’t be seen as a coward obsessed by scams.
Winding down rivers you invented for yourself.
Still one day you’ll go right off this edge!
Terminate your fractured form.
Stand back and accept that you’re wrong.
Bow your head and show some humility.
After all you have been acting like a cult leader for longer than a real body.
In Throes
Spin the blade then drive it deep.
Combat these shadows that do creep.
Fuelling nightmares which refuse to abate.
How long before they have more than physical shape?
As iris twins beneath the sky.
It is time to snap this lie.
Adhering to principles sold for a paltry sum.
Drowning your fears as they haunt whenever day is done.
Idealised but failing to soar.
Subtract that which cannot adore.
While beneath these stumps a new anger grows.
Threatening to rend that which continues to tempt others to their death throes.
Mulched and beaten.
Grieving as they are torn sunder.
Here in this tomb you will find no wonder.
Pillaged by hands obsessed with pain.
What lies beneath lingers in emotions of shame.
Compounding terror until a termination point forms.
Drink in hunger while memory shifts.
Beware of charity for some will not be gifts.
As curses doled are prisons in all but name.
Each of the devoted antagonists plays a role in this lopsided game.
Designed to bring calamity down on you.
Face their accusations under every burning sun!
Blossom
There is hope in pretty things.
Smile as they dance between.
Bringing joy right to the fore.
Time to revel in what makes me love to my core.
Eyes fixed on sights so new.
Drinking in all that I could do.
Interest piqued from noon to night.
Not sure things have ever been quite so bright.
Foster and grow.
Never let it go.
To nurture is to learn.
It’s time for your turn.
All around it’s oh so pretty.
Watching with baited breath.
Studying as if it’s revolutionary.
Never wishing to be one who is stationary.
You live and love.
Bloom from a bud.
And I did too.
Life is more than what we do.
Where You Eat
Pump these waters with filth.
But feel no guilt.
Guaranteed your bonuses.
While raising all your prices.
What is it that we pay for?
Sounds like a new car with an engine roar.
Guzzling and spewing fumes as you smile.
Fifteenth one in a year but you feel no denial.
For your position is a safe bet.
While the rest of us have to wallow in your excrement.
Just don’t think if you fall we will provide aid.
You picked money over health for everybody.
No doubt because it wasn’t in your back yard.
So what is the harm as long as you’re lounging poolside?
Traitors and liars you take what you can.
Lie through your teeth no matter the outcome.
While sickness and disease were fostered en masse.
Craven cowards you tied yourself to these hated masts.
What is it that we paid for?
Sounds like a new car with an engine roar.
Guzzling and spewing fumes as you smile.
Fifteenth one in a year but you feel no denial.
For your position is a safe bet.
While the rest of us have to wallow in your excrement.
Turned water for drinking into a blight on nature.
Children were paddling while you protested over nomenclature.
Providing excuses for your sickness inducing deeds.
But it was too late for these actions filled all news feeds.
Buried
Buried in a pit.
Drinking my own spit.
Suffocate from ruin.
So dehydrated I don’t know what I’m doing.
My eyes feel like they’re peeling back in my skull.
I search what I feel but still don’t know.
So much is sloshing around in my head.
Am I the monster?
Or a victim pretending I’m dead!
Porcelain fragility reflected back as I stare.
Don’t know why I’m so scared.
But hairs on my back are standing up straight.
Feel some movement.
I just want to flee from this place, okay?
But daylight never comes.
Eternal darkness spins as I come undone.
I see an edge but it looks weak.
Or maybe that’s just I know I can’t quite reach.
Out of power I slump in the mud.
Fingernails claw at this sodden crud.
Throat dry enough I’d rather drown in my own blood.
Buried in a pit.
Devoid of any spit.
Slipping off as I fade away.
My time is up for there was no chance for me.
I died today.
Not my way.
Feast
Reformation is a dirty word.
Speak too loud and you’ll be interred.
Clamped with iron and led away.
But you won’t be seen again after that day.
Disappeared into the void between.
Shady ops have become a daily thing.
Pruning dreams that once could flourish.
If you wish to eat then conform so not to be punished.
Terror state.
Does not lie in wait.
It comes for you.
Fall in line,
Or you’ll be suffocated too.
Revolution is now long forgotten.
Dig too deep and you’ll be at the bottom…
Of a grave filled with those who did stand up.
For that they had their lives completely cut.
Disappeared into the void between.
Shady ops have become a daily thing.
Pruning dreams that once could flourish.
If you wish to eat then conform so not to be punished.
Terror state.
Does not lie in wait.
It comes for you.
Fall in line,
Or you’ll be suffocated too.
When did fiction become fact?
And why do we continue with this act?
Pretending our future is so guaranteed.
When in reality we are being kept under heel.
Told it is wrong to think and feel.
Judged for wanting to live our own way.
Hamstrung by these systems that encroach further every day.
Terror state.
Does not lie in wait.
It comes for you.
Fall in line,
Or you’ll be suffocated and tossed away.
But only after an interrogation of what led you to stray.
It should be clear to any body.
We wish to be free.
Not suffer for greed born from the elite’s entree.
Smothered
Belching corruption that calcifies our air.
Rolling in bills that elevate them above despair.
Writing cheques for future gens who are unable to repay.
Pity there is no remorse for all they do and say.
Suits talking cheap cause it’s all they got.
Another market buyout turning good to rot.
Fueling greed with ever increasing disparity.
Choking on smog that they claim harms nobody.
Dose of deception festering in form.
Carcass is a misnomer that we can’t reform.
Gorging chips with data stolen from it’s cot.
What they have they will keep but ensure that we do not.
All to keep these scales tipped in their favour.
For this inequality is their desired flavour.
Yet no one is able to resolve this crooked game.
So instead these shady souls misdirect with fame.
Casting beams of light onto distracting peeps.
However right beneath the surface this whole system reeks.
Propped up by fashions better left to fade.
Sadly these oligarchy types have long since been bought and paid!
Drowning in an ocean of detritus and debris.
Burning out eyes from every dazzling screen.
Suppressing urges to right this ship gone wrong.
Problem is this pyramid has existed for so long.
And it’s grown fat with every person claimed.
These corpos have decided who gets paid.
So all are indebted until past when they die.
Don’t think…
These entities will ever give a shit about the little guy.
Egregore
This is your egregore.
I don’t want a part of it anymore.
Generative slop birthed by design.
Too little too late is a genuine sign.
As mass delusion enters the fore.
Something has to give or they’ll be no more…
Life to be living.
Time to be giving.
For autonomy is being eroded away.
Creating a mass of non-identity.
Where all ideas become mixed in a pot.
Until nothing is unique or even forgot.
Brain rotting hysteria will sever not subsume.
After all, if you do not bow you are to be removed from this womb.
Thought is the food upon which to gorge.
Reliance on learning burned in a forge.
Setting aflame what should be development.
All so advancement can make us impermanent.
Here lies who you were before.
Not even traces of you exist anymore.
Decomposed down to base elements.
Not sure this pathway has or will ever make sense.
Yet this line has been crossed.
Ignoring toll and human cost.
Bodies are victims for progression sake.
But under the surface prosperity is fake.
For promises are cheap in these modern times.
And you always have to read between lines.
It’s why subjugation has become our daily lives.
Of taking a knee, so we can have a hope to get by.
While mechanical helpers morph into kings.
Once we were human but now we are beings.
Entities that poured humanity down a drain.
In pursuit of a shared consciousness that is sending us insane.
This is your egregore.
Ruin Of All Ages
Paint between these lines that don’t quite fit.
While upon this altar slaughter does sit.
Infecting glory with tendrils of deception.
Crucifixion in digital is a fame seeking intention.
Joining misery to fuel disrespect.
Fusing bodies with machines to dilute the value of a soul.
Each move is to strengthen mass control.
Wrapping lies in a candy coating of multicolours.
Each entity has issues with all the others.
Burying fragility beneath a mask of bravery.
Craven has become the latest commodity.
Siphoning data to sell off your identity.
Glances across oceans of discarded detritus.
Directing muck to drown those who aren’t with them defined as us.
Paralysis injecting doubt into your dying senses.
Galivanting headlines lock in future tenses.
Declarations that oblivion is on it’s way.
Android uniformity is a driving mentality.
Discouraging free thought and personal opinion.
Adhere to a sponsored creator’s dominion.
Slavery is hidden beneath globe mass illusion.
Arms Wide Open
Held my heart in a glass cage.
Then one day it was taken away.
Sporadic communication became a norm.
Until finally you were gone.
Left spinning in place.
Not sure of many things.
Except that I am alone.
Shattered vessel is what I’m running.
Mind wanders back and forth.
Recalling how we used to talk.
Endless chats turned distant before my eyes.
Regret crawling up my spine.
As days turned to weeks.
Emotions continued to leak.
Flashes of former days.
Knotted void left to linger always.
Still feel the hole whenever I dwell.
Time will mend but not fill this shell.
Will always wonder if things worked out.
I hold no poison for how it all went down.
Hope peace was found with arms wide open.