Love is gone

But not forgotten

It stabs like lies

Caresses like silk lined hands of a pallbearer

And breaks free like the truth

This world is but a ruse

This life full of clues

All that you wonder will one-day leave

Like a lover scorned

Somebody

Some mind

Some tears

But all in all

I have all I need

Myself

For I am the lion

The shield against the sword

Ink spills like blood but lasts much longer

To take is to give something else

Be it good or bad

That is up to you

But know that in living I have learned

And I am not dead yet

My voice not quieted as the halls

That I roamed as a child

Mistakes make us perfect

In the end

When everything blends

Into some quantum leap of perfection

I roam the lonely hills of my mind

A traveler without a map

But still a sense of direction

Forward

Always forward into the next valley of despair

Unarmed

But confident

I will rise over the horizon

And into a new adventure

Some would say its lunacy

But then I would say it’s just the moon

Shedding light into its purest form

Naked and nude

White and anything but crude

Forever searching for the nexus while lost inside

Emotions are like the tide

Thoughts like the wind

What’s the beginning

What’s the end

Is there a message worthy to send?

Who are these people

Who are these trees

Why should you always say thank you and please?

Get down on your knees

And kiss the sand

It could be anything

It could be planned that one day

Many will rise

To take from the few

Or maybe you have a different view

That we are all destined to lose

Meant to be confused and lost

Slaves to the uberboss

Slaves to the machine

Cold, dry and mean

Are you in-between?

Don’t want to say?

Just want to last another wasted day?

Until those in grief

Wish you could have stayed

And made life anew

What is it you came to do?

Watch it all through kaleidoscope eyes

Think derrrr and wait for the surprise?

You have to know yourself before you know the world

So look deep within your soul

Find a plug for the hole

Act out like you’ve earned the role

Of the star of the show

Its never stop

Always go

Spin like a top

Never drop

Be like the rock

That rolls down a hill

Make a big splash

Camera lights flash

Don’t dream if you want to wake up

I know I’ve had enough

But I’ve got the stuff

That lights the path

You can do it with your heart or you can do it with math

All you really have to do

Is never forget your past

Even if it holds you back

Just make sure you don’t crack

Or you’ll miss the muse

All I know is pain can be used