There are times when the greatest action is inaction.
Contradiction wrapped in stupidity.
I hear you say it, even if its only mentally.
Yet its true and you should take heed.
It’ll help you to simply be.
Exist and drink in what surrounds.
Not always being hubris bound.

Cry for peace.
Pray for quiet.
All this noise makes you sick and tired.
Grating senses will burn your will.
Before too long you’ll be ill!

Silence can be the loudest thing you can hear.
What utter nonsense you think I’m speaking here.
Yet these words are true when you think.
You just have to not pre-judge it.
For over analysis is quiet a disease.
Especially when its easier to say than do.
Still you can learn it to.

Cry for peace.
Pray for quiet.
All this noise makes you sick and tired.
Grating senses will burn your will.
Before too long you’ll be ill!

Sit out on the porch for a while.
No intent as I watch the sun descend.
Thoughts ebbing and flowing.
Memories surface then fade away.
Feels like freedom to me.
With no rush to fill my head.
Natures sounds are relaxing.
Quite different to always ploughing through.
Rather than taking time to soak up what’s surrounding you.
Never planned to be quite this wired.
Fixed on a treadmill of someone else’s desires.
Yet sadly that’s where I have been.
Hence why I’ve always been pushing.
Now I see that I’ve been a fool.
Need to learn to take my foot off the mule.
Hang back and enjoy this time that I have.
Instead of forever following a direct path.
For peace comes with acceptance and serenity.
Not rushing headlong into a new entity.
And so here I sit watching as the world spins.
Couldn’t be more attuned with simply being.

Empathy will fill your heart.
Joy will give you a jumpstart.
Show your colours and wear them proud.
Don’t let other people’s negativity cloud…

Its easy to sink into our world’s misery.
But if you look past the pain you’ll find positivity.
So much beauty everywhere you look.
With kindness flowing from every nook.
Drink it in and feel the swell.
Rise knowing better days are on the horizon.

Offer aid with a warm smile.
Don’t get all snippy with a tone of bile.
For manners cost absolute zero.
I know you can be a super hero.

Invite others with arms wide open.
Conflict will only bring more blame.
Its why inclusion is such an important topic.
For there is no need to magnify division.
Sow seeds of hate with snap decisions.
Instead just accept people and let them be who they want to be.

Rise above this malice which surrounds.
Wading through it will otherwise cause you to drown.

What gifts does it hold but sinking?
None and that’s how I’m now thinking.
So I cut to save what matters.
Instead of embrace this toxic fathom.

Daring is better than going along.
Wound up will only do more harm.
So I now see it as pointless to me.
Is a distraction that has no momentum.
Holds me in place rather than allows me to increase.
And so if you push I’ll mentally walk away.

Tables have turned and this game is not yours.
These rules are mine now and you won’t be included.

Damn this struggle and all its tries to drain.
What is the reason to continue in pain?
None and so I shall disconnect.
I know this is not what you would expect.

Security to peace.
Release!
Breathe out and enjoy.
Life needs to be less struggle than joy.
Absent of grinding away.
Sometimes silence is what I should be.

Narcissistic nagging with endless decay.
Sick of listening to this every day.
Leave me out so I can march on.
For all this negativity is doing great harm.
Pounding heads against concrete.
In the end you’ll be nothing but weak.

Separate and sever these ties.
Blank out all of this idiot rise.
Peace is more important than power or fame.
Its why I’m choosing to bring an end to this game!

Parasitic greed born with fake smiles.
Guiding hands that dole out new lies.
Sick of the warring that keeps all angry.
Running in circles is like begging to fray.
With little but echoes trapped in your mind.
Ultimately you’ll become confined by this bind.

Separate and sever these ties.
Blank out all of this idiot rise.
Peace is more important than power or fame.
Its why I’m choosing to bring an end to this game!

If I don’t I might crumble.
Spend eternity in a stumble.
Be falling flat with no reason to try.
Pounded like trash until all I can do is cry.
Into a void that sits without remorse.
Desperate for a final divorce.
From the torment that’s become a connection.
Offering no respite from a self-pitying obsession.

Writhe in the deep of our darkest dome.
Right where we sleep is what we call home.
No one will step across our threshold.
You should know we’re like dogs with a bone.

No one will stop our commitment.
Forever after will come an incremental attack on you.
Made your bed and you’ll die in it too.

Step from the steppes into this quaint little town.
Every villager you see wears a frown.
Self-importance rules their heads.
Too busy loitering away hours in their sheds.

You can’t stop our advancing.
Whittle down their resources ’til they wish to beg.
For their dishonour they will be dead.

Flounder.
Plead like a fool.
Counter.
Us against you.
Plural.
For we are legion.
Demented.
By your acts of treason.

Left out on the porch.
I stare at the sky with its twinkling.
Sight to behold that I can’t forget.
Dreams of joining are frequent.

Fragile are hopes and days to come.
Don’t sell me out to the sun.

Financed hate in a soul.
Forgive separation without the know.
All to balance betrayal with joy.
For these words are just a ploy.

Fragile are hopes and days to come.
Don’t sell me out to the sun.

Re-establish them emphasise.
Or should that be, continue to criticise?
I cannot say unless you speak.
Sow these wounds that prove I’m a freak.
Powered by empty will.
Shut off these pipes before they spill.
Vitriol enough to drown us all.
You are no victim, is written on your wall!

Fragile are hopes and days to come.
Don’t sell me out to the sun.

Pour from this bottle into your glass.
Minutes are neither slow nor fast.
What I will showcase holds no mystery.
Its why I gave up on spectacle and ceremony.

Rather I simply wish to speak.
Unfold this tale without going weak.
Cry my mind and not be judged.
Torn from these walls that I’ve loved.
For my hands are cracked…
Blame it on being my final straw.
One more weight and this house of cards will fall.

Snap fingers at a lost goat herder.
Butchered under a single order.
Issued from this old man’s lips.
Same sad soul who delivered quips.

Bonded in these streets of pain.
Wrapped under more tiers of blame.
Crying out for moments of relief.
Washed out by soapy disbelief.
Doused with ethanol and a smile.
Brandished as a weapon behind your bile.
Forever tarnished as if criminal was my calling.

Focus.
Pick bones clean.
Vicious.
Wager out your dream.
Sacrifice.
Barter away your soul.
Madness.
Renege control.

I stared at the sun for a maddening time.
Little did I know I would go blind!
Always believed it to be a tale.
Not a reality that would abhorrently prevail,
Without an ounce of remorse to fly.
What a way to whittle what remains of life.

I made my bed.
Now I must lie in it.
Damned myself.
Crushed my mind just like the rest.
No real difference,
Between me or the wretched.
I am just a puppet.
Strings pulled as I’m neglected.

Broke my bones in hopes of getting away.
All it did was amplify my anxiety.
This barred cell made of what I once loved.
Now I am but boxed in like a caged dove.
Spiralling out of my tiny shrinking mind.
All I process is what I’m fed in kind.

By ghouls and goblins.
Slash my veins free.
Drain this blood.
Ensure I am empty.
Rung out of this glue.
I beg you to burn.
Then take my urn.
Cast out all I never did earn.

Fractured sense wrapped in leaves.
Poison blinks of quite diseased.
Silence hanging in the air.
Buy now not later, these banners declare.
Ignoring damage done to all.
Forever bound to this butchers call.

Zero not hero.
Snapped from new.
Fed by demi gods who spew,
Vile obscenities sold to all young.
Who knows where I’m not coming from?
Riddle without enigmas shell.
Someone has cast a putrid spell.
Of seasons born to commit homicide.
Yellow bellied and harshly decried.
As stars sit upon these bones.
From now on we’ll continue to moan.