Be Yourself

In the deepest, in the darkest
where the thoughts of pain are starkest...
With the knowledge, with the terror
and the thought that life's an error...
Find a reason, find excuses
for the right to all life's truces
And in the darkest place of lies
close your ears, open your eyes

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Nemo

No man tells no lies
No telling unfolded without cries
No man doesn't live that doesn't despise

No man a symbol stands
No symbol lasts writ in sands
No man lives with glorious hands

No man a shade may call
No shade was cast that didn't fall
No man without a shadow darkens all

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Marvel

Life streams
across her moonlit hair
catching the vagrant breath of Gaia

Turning violent
ever evascending storms
over the evening shadow in my heart

Thoughts glow
growing always perfect
within the grasp of my understanding

We listen
to the shivering leaves
and wonder at the delicate marvel

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A moment

Here in the wasteland of my head
naked, because I like to be, and free!
Dancing because it is nice to dance,
traipsing because it is such a word

Where have my troubles fled to?
Away from my exposed soul, they wither
all time is left behind for the moment,
and here in the moment I am content

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Turn Around

What is a god but a sad little sod with the power to do what he will?
Where is the proof of a glorious truth in the message of blood in the till?
How are we here in this nice little mere but to dance with the passing of time?
Who is reflected in mirror and maze but a god just awaiting the chime?

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Strive!

There is no strength for such as us,
no weakness, no will to live or die
just the impressions of willingness
the choice to get up, or let lie

Strive! Strive! Lost Soul-Dark Soul
In the shadows of this fitful giant,
climb the mountain to the filling of your role
leave not the world, be non-compliant.

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Burn

What is this curious thing that burns
fills the nostrils with a strange scent
Crowds out the fantasy of passing time
and closes your eyes in sweet harmony?

What are this logical mind's concerns
on the altar where lost time is spent
Spelling out tragedies, harassing rhyme,
and standing on legs of neat irony?

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World War Three

When war broke out
the sky grew dark
the silence gone
the mountains stark

The air glowed red
the armies marched
the front lines died
the land grew parched

When fallout cleared
the sun shone bright
the land was seared
a lonely sight

All life was gone
forever lost
no reason to fight
they paid the cost

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A name...

A rose by any other name
is not a rose.
Does it have petals,
or instead many toes?
Does it speak softly;
or shudder in the wind?
Does it grow listlessly,
or lament that it has sinned?

A rose, by any other name
is still no rose
unless these differences are tame:
that a name shapes a flower,
and a flower shapes a name!

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Elation

In the memory of a nation born with noble liberation
Here's a toast to innovation that our father's indignation
was indulged for iteration of a battered reputation
to be grown in incubation for their calculated station
so self-evidently rationed by divine interpretation
could return exaggeration to forestall their self-deflation.

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