The Others

You have seen them fight

For their most basic rights

You’re aware that their future might

Be not that bright

Then agree with

Those who

Say everything is alright

Even though you’ve seen

The motives in between

All the layers inside this obscenely broke machine

It's time to intervene

Like the others

Before

Who’d help them fight for their dreams

There's no time to believe they'll suddenly try

When the markets doing fine

Never thought we would find the enemy lines

Carved inside our own design

The economy

Appears designed to be

Dependent on acts of greed

that only feed

Those who need

To impede

The means to let us be free

They don't want us skilled

Or have our needs fulfilled

Hear our thoughts on the better world we could rebuild

They'd rather have us killed

We can't have what

They have

With their bloated egos unfilled

There's no time to believe they'll suddenly try

When the markets doing fine

Never thought we would find the enemy lines

Carved inside our own design

And they say we should protest peacefully. Why?

If they won't listen we’ll all die

If they somehow awake

And want to fix their mistakes

Learned what they thought were just lies were true

There are guardrails in place

That will never displace

All of the damage that their kind do

If decisions are made

Risking shareholder gains

By benefiting the most instead the few

The board would simply embrace

All the means to replace

Those who’d defy them with someone new

Who will do what they tell them to

There's no time to believe they'll suddenly try

When the markets doing fine

Never thought we would find the enemy lines

Carved inside our own design

Tried to sort it all out, the way that I heard it

After all of your words aligned in my mind

Now confined, thought I’d try transcribing some lines

Making sure the last rhymes

With ‘I don't deserve this’

‘But maybe I do’, was the follow-up concept

After some time, to let the tension subside

Where I could try to unwind, or to show you that I

Acknowledge your side

But now’s not the time

I need to remind

You

It's completely your fault, your pent up aggression

That always comes out when you get in this way

A single word misconveyed, your composure decays

Escalates into hate

Which leads to the question

Do I deserve such an awful reaction?

The words that you scream make me feel like I do

But I learned to look through for a logical view

And discovered the truth

it's just you hating you, through

Me

You scream my efforts are a waste

You know that's not the case

You're just projecting your disgrace

That you aren't doing much these days

You scream my progress is a lie

That I’ve fallen way behind

But I am growing all the time

In ways you’re too afraid to try

And why, is due to your

View of the world, it's far from objective

And your hesitant eyes would rather stay blind

‘Cause if your view realigned you’d see you're wasting your time

But you're too scared to find

You have a broken perspective

Hide it inside, all the truth that could hurt you

Decide that you’ll now push all reason aside

You won't deny that the pain and those thoughts coincide

So with your logic decried

Your emotional side

Is all you’ll confide in

But that's an

Immature move, a foolish conclusion

Your emotional side was never designed

To devise what is wise, keep your body alive

And it's likely behind, your inherent confusion

Irrational waste, the trash that you treasure

The cancerous pit filled with fears and regrets

That tries to scream out at me every chance that it gets

So with all these events

I really must stress

That I don't deserve this

But maybe I do

The problem isn't new, so maybe I do

Deserve the blame, and all the pain

from getting me into

A situation that I knew

Would only bring out the mad you

So maybe I do

Need to work on something too, what I’d want from you

Should not react, when feel attacked

Know you're baiting me into your rage

To show me the depths of the pain

That makes you the sad you

But maybe ‘you’ do

Need to see things from my view, see what I know’s true

See why I care, because I’m scared

See you making the wrong moves

I did and I want to prevent you

From doing harm to the real you

Yes maybe you do

Need to know just what you do, to those around you

The disrespect, that you project

When you lose your temper I hope you

Try to remember there’s value

Lost from how we view

What's left of the old you

Curious Yellow

Bending

A particular scene

From an old DVD

Popped into my head that day

And at first I was amused

Then found it wouldn't go away

So finally I

Decide 

To take the time

I thought I’d try to verify

If the truth and my mind

Were still aligned

Skip most the way to the end

Hit play

Here comes the rolling pink cake

Kicking off the parade

As 80’s dance music plays

And in front of a throne with crown

We see a purple dancing clown

He struts and pumps 

His arms from up above

He asks the crowd ‘who do you trust’?

Could've sworn he said ‘love’

That's close enough

Before the money flies out, to the crowd

Hit pause

Now if I wanted to rewind,

I'm pretty sure I’d find 

That everyone was given ample time

To learn the clown was bad

But those in the streets, in all their greed

Just why couldn't they see?

Back then, that made me sad

But I feel a new way, from today

Hit play

A seeming endless supply

Of twirling cash in the sky

As the clown and his floats pass by

And I didn't understand

Those people never questioned why

And then the clown reveals his big surprise

He’s out of lies

Says that it's time

To now end all their lives

They're all despised

When they learn what he said

It's too late

They’re dead

Now in the moments that they had left

As I watch them flee in dread

I find myself trying to guess instead 

Just what's going through their heads

As the poison spreads 

Do they regret

Anything that led

Them to their awful end

And I used to believe that they did

I can't anymore

There's too much I can't ignore

I’d rather keep some hope of what I thought before

But I can't anymore

I learned the issue at the core

They just aren't as good as I was told they were

If the parade took place 

On a much more recent date

I think about what all the people there

Were doing earlier that day

Were they walking around with makeup on their face

To try to piss off those they hate?

Then rush back home to post their pro-clown memes

To his official Facebook page?

Did their families try to persuade

Them not to go to the parade

With tears in their eyes, presenting facts that state 

The clown is utterly depraved

That he’s as bad as all they say

And if you love us, please promise us you’ll stay

And without a care, they go out anyway 

They can't tell me what to do, they’d say

To themselves on their way to make the same mistakes

I’m now glad they got what they deserved that day

I’d rather think what I thought, back then 

Hit stop

Cut You Out

Got greedy

Started taking too much 

The aggressor is to blame

You were bold to 

Think I’d accept it as such

And play along in your selfish game

We were stable

Then you had to screw it all up

I’ll spare the poetics and lay it out plain

You want more than what I’m able to give you 

Got needy

Now sharing thoughts of

Your endless pain throughout the day

When I told you

To stop, I had more than enough

There’s only so much of you I can take

I’m not able

To work, I can't focus because

You have me imprisoned, and I can't escape

Your toxic attention won't let me escape

(I’ll never find peace of you’re never away?)

You want more than what I’m able to give you

Yes you want more than what I’m willing to give you

Another warning, please stay away 

Completely drained

Toxic attention

-suffocation?

Is killing me

So why can't you see

It's a big problem, each word you say

Fills me with rage

Simple solution

Just stay away

Before it's too late

So easy

You just need to shut up

Be silent for the next few days

Like the old you

Who could remember somewhat

I need time alone for my mental state

It's a fatal

Mistake if you push me that much

I’m closer than ever to throw you away

You want more than I’m able to give you

You want more, and more, and more…

So you know, I’m no longer having a good time

Need some time to heal both inside and outside

I’ll decide alone when you can come near me

If you don't wanna hear me

I’ll cut you out

A final warning, please stay away 

Completely drained

Toxic attention

Is killing me

So why can't you see

It's a big problem when each word you say

Fills me with rage

Here's the solution

Just stay away

Before it's too late

Is it too late?