Across the Universe
This was inspired by the Beatles song of the same name
Words are flowing out like endless streams into a paper cup
They stand and sigh and soon they slip away
Across the universe
Through tomorrow drains today an open mind locked in a grave
Unwilling to relinquish me
*Jai guru deva, nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like
A million eyes they blink and I am gone
Across the universe
Desperation touches joyous feelings fluttering about
From here to there and in between they’re lost
Across the universe
*
Vision walking in a life unfurled within a restless void
Unlimited and bound to none they run
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Game of Life (At War)
Load up your weapons and pray to your throne
You’re here for murder, leave your conscience at home
Keep your wits about you and don’t make many friends
Just point click and shoot and you might see your end
To win requires a certain ferocity
Ignore the smell, the fear, and atrocities
Pay no mind to your nightmares while sleeping
If you freeze up in battle a loved one will be weeping
A paper’s been signed there’s no need now for slaughter
We can be friends again, by the way how’s your daughter?
The planes stopped soaring and the ships have all docked
Peace returns the infantry with all their shell shock
The ambitions of war are always complex
Be they religion, money, or global conquest
Don’t go in to war be you a soldier or civilian
Cause death is there waiting as both hero and villain
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Rotten to the Core pt.2
Resident evils cloud the brains like umbrellas
They know decadence lethal to hungry young fellas
Who empty cash boxes quicker than crooked bank tellers
If their hopes to become like that J. Rockefeller
Rothschild, Bilderberg, Carnegie, and both Gates
Paid no attention to laws to get their estates
And you’re reminded that you too want to be regal
And you too want to be Mr. or Mrs. Big Time
But you must commit to Mr. or Mrs. Big Crime
Then use your connections and make them illegal
That part of their story they neglect to tell
When they motivate for hours and throw out their speeches
How they clung to their dreams much harder than leeches
Crime doesn’t pay but you can sure make it sell
Keep making honey and save up for later
Because
They’ll never give you their money
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Keep Writing
We share thoughts, and ideas, and hopes, and fears
And dreams of nightmares that ask why we're here
The anger and rage that we cannot ignore
Rampages on pages no one can deplore
Our longings for belonging to someone special
While we try to figure out a good rhyme for special
Choosing one word for another, and which goes first
We inspire our humanity, until it knows no thirst
From the hearts and the minds of the young and the old
There is no normalcy, no conventional code
Our pens flow freely as space is black
Experience makes trusty keyboards 'click-clack'
Imagination colors images on every line
Scribbled in a moment or trapped in time
To all who may read this, I ask just one thing
Write what you want, just write something
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A Love Poem
Love is not blind; love is blinding
As in
It makes you ignore all the flaws
Of your loved one that would otherwise cause
You to lose your lunch like a seal escaping Jaws
Love is timeless
Or maybe it isn't and it just seems that way
Because love makes you mindless
Whether or not you're not crooked
You can't think straight
Love gets you hooked like captain fish bait
Any scheme borne of dreams
No matter how implausible
Love will encourage them
So, instantly they're possible
Love dramatizes desire
Swan dives into depression
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Imagine
Ease your mind for an instant and let us think
Change is too late only when you’re extinct
Imagine yourself not having one possession
Or strays putting little kids in processions
No politics worked for partisan misgivings
Imagine tolerance and care without a religion
The world’s a wondrous mess despite what’s left
And although I feel the same, John said it best
-You may say I’m a dreamer; well I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world can be as one
Imagine the hunger made by the greed
Ceases to exist and no poverty
No countries or leaders destroyed for position
We all sympathize with our human condition
The days can’t be held from passing us by
Nor the sadness inherent in our aging eyes
Imagine a world where we can all feel blessed
And breathe a sigh of relief with one calm breath
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Paper Planes
We get high like vapors and fly like planes
Don’t you try to change our mind, we got money on the brain
If you wanna get the cheddar, you better Kraft your name
On Wall Street and Main, game recognize game
Sometimes we be switching four lanes
Bankrupting banks and ditching Rove Range
Coppas wanna stop us but they are so lame
Boring cash warrants put a claim on our fame
All I wanna do is (Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!)
And I [click] {Cha-ching}
And take your money
High rise homes, limos
Paper planes crash into Zippos
Coming when we get ‘em
Out on bail, above the system
No one in the country can work it like us
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Cameo Pt.3
It was on a sunny day when I was to run and play
A pick up game on a team, one was home, one away
We stayed out in the park until well beyond dark
It was no big deal cause the streetlights were sparked
We walked right by some people gettin high
Heard the music full blast drowning out the baby’s cry
From the corner of my eye I saw him walking on my side
Looking so weak I could’ve sworn he would’ve died
When I turned to face him he reversed a few paces
Said that he was sorry and I felt full disgraces
Looking for some change and didn’t mean to rearrange
My course, but he felt like he was losing all his brains
Gave what I could find and my boys gave him some dimes
He gave a gracious thanks and then moved back up the line
A Jag pulled up behind us, we stared like we were mindless
He hopped in it and said 'Thanks again for the kindness'
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Cameo pt.2
He was sitting on the bus his self esteem in the dust
When he asked an old man if sadness is a must
If he can’t make the money then he’s sure to lose his honey
Hasn’t eaten all day you could probably hear his tummy
And the rent’s past due when her parent’s pass through
Their child’s life is such a mess it’ll make them achoo(!)
Old man looked at him as if his name was Adam
And said big problems can get broken down to atoms
Today’s disaster will be tomorrow’s plaster
Rebuild it how you want, don’t let it be the master
Opinions of mothers and goofy in-law brothers
Should never outweigh yours or your choosy lover
I listened to him teach cause he never once preached
And the things he was saying weren’t too far out of reach
Problems go on and on but they never stay that long
I turned to look at him but the old man was gone
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It's Only A Lifetime pts.1&2
Autistic artistics
Who can’t find their words a home, like lost misfits
Counting and working off digits and
Patent their talent to buy what cost digits
Cause this is a pot, of broken dreams
With no means to grip it, the golden beams
Not a soul on the team has the scheme
In order to fix it
-Stirred to a blur of cold sirs and frost misses
It’s only a lifetime, no reason to miss it
Any colour of brother
Will seem like another
When fabled and labeled with us or the others
Misters and sisters, the system is tougher
Making and taking good friends and bad lovers
Left behind in time, get ready get set
With nowhere to go, bring on the regret
Or wages of lotto and pass out the bottles
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