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.

Watcher from on high.
Peering down through this black sky.
Seeker of some truth.
Devoid of time or a segment called youth.
Study what lies below.
Upon these altars rot shall grow.
Sifted just like sand.
Heresy calls outsiders to wear a brand.
Of fallacy and erasure.
What lies here is that which made ya.
Subjugation of old may.
Spiralling out of the same faded day.

Wearer of obsidian robe.
Saunter down your forgotten road.
Parasite of sense.
Forever speaking in past tense.

Barbarian in roasting sand.
Upon new flesh will remain this brand.
Torturous and raw.
Betraying all those who were born poor.
With knives against a throat.
Upon this hatred they hope you choke.
For butchering a thrill.
By using a rusted hammer drill.
Of venomous retort.
Grinding fame until they wish to abort.
To free of all this mess.
Begging for end to this compacted stress.

Silhouette with no form.
Were you actually ever truly born?
Fraying all the ties.
All you have and speak are lies!

Watch the rise over that hill.
Light does effortlessly spill.
Illuminating all that it does touch.
Never does it feel too much.
For what this is is how its meant to be.
Mathematical formulas designed everything from creation to entropy!

Beauty in every moment.
Fascination in all you see.
Breathtaking and overwhelming.
Exactly how its supposed to be.

Dark hides so much with ease.
Inky black that leans on tease.
Concealing secrets of vast proportions.
With varying angels and contortions.
Not quite giving away true perspective.
As if darkness and night are being protective!

Beauty in every moment.
Fascination even in what you cannot see.
Breathtaking but overwhelming.
Exactly how its supposed to be.

And I wouldn’t trade it.
Even if it were not forbade.
For all I see is so intricate.
I just want to watch it in all ways.

Beauty in every moment.
Fascination through and through.
Breath-taking with overwhelming.
Exactly how its supposed to…

I don’t know where I’m going.
Hesitation high but I follow this course.
Curious to see where it leads.
Ignoring that it might be to remorse.

Not everything can be calculated.
Sometimes you just have to trust.

End goal but no steps set out.
Winding down this enormous road.
Peaks and valleys mirror events.
Eager to see exactly how this will go.

Progress made on journey and in character.
Evolving as my story continues.
Both hero and villain in my own show.

Far along and it feels like I’m winning.
Not a battle but in my overall life.
Mainly joy that keeps me singing.
Highs vastly outweigh the lows.

Not everything can be calculated.
Sometimes you just have to trust.
No guarantees but just keep going.
Believe and you’ll be alright.