Obeisance

What obeisance is more captivating
than the scent of a woman?
Without the flowers and herbs of old
perfume enchanted by body bold.
Perhaps well worked, or well refreshed
without some falsely scented flesh
For the scent of a woman is unrestrained
although my memories may be stained
In this fair prison where I remain
a body male, and male a brain

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Day to Day

We wake up every morning with this balance
and walk around all day with falsey grins
We look up every moment for the good things
and dance around when happiness begins

Then good things run away before the darkness
and breaking things looks better than before
Then hopeful thoughts are crushed into the nether
and less the likely happens like the chore

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Enlightenment

Law is made for lawyers
and crimes for criminals.
Politics for politicians.
Common sense for commoners.

Friendship is made for friends,
and love for lovers.
Hate for haters.
Religion for the religious.

School is made for administrators,
and lead for leaders.
Money for the rich.
Charity for the poor.

Knowing this,
be a little of each
or fail to find perspective.

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Short, Mad

Pierced by an arrow,
pierced by a phrase
Killed by a sentance,
trapped in a maze

Look in a mirror,
catch your own gaze
See your reflection
twelve different ways

Watch yourself failing
your thoughts growing crazed
There's fear in your posture
your eyes going glazed

Your mind is confusion
you always seem dazed
Your life is soon ending
forever you're phased

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Hindsight and Multidimensions

I stand here alone,
looking back down the road I came here on
Its pictures like sunlight and stars
reflected off the water of a lake
or the e-coli filled gutter water
It is a gift to see everything gone wrong
and talk about these things
to every other broken heart in every other world
it is an infinity of tragic stories
for each one a single tear shed
for the loss of everything beloved

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Faith, Hope, Love

Faith is armageddon
a terrorizing trip
to stand upon a razor
and pray you didn't slip

Hope is up in heaven
and hell is here on earth
but heaven is in dollars
and hell a lack of worth

Love is time expanding
a fluid, flowing dance
where vergence and convergence
are both a strong advance

Truth is puzzle pieces
and when it fails to fit
you stick it all together
with elbow grease and spit

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Fallen Chocobo

In the wind of the grassland,
where green grass grows tall
above your head

Sighing waves of flashing green
comfort one another
across the sun strewn lawn

Gritty details, dust and blood
carry as a scent on the wind
the cry, we'ih-ooh.

Oh the Chocobo has fallen,
the pink and the yellow
or the wily black male

A wolf of red hair and fiery tail
growls over the corpse
and eats around feathers

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Lifecycle

People aren't born for what they do, but what their parents dream.
People don't grow for growing's sake, but for the future's gleam.
People don't live to one day die, they live to put off dying.
People don't work to build themselves, they work to stave off crying.
People aren't fired for what they say, they're fired for making war.
People don't die for what they believe, they die for who they are.

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Who I am

I am among those without worth to those who feel valuable.
I am alone to the world because I hold no self-confidence.
I am lost to the ones I love for not opening my own doors.
I am quiet and cannot help because of my disbelief in you.
I am subject to the torments of my own misguided mindsets.
I am not what I appear to be and I do not wish to be seen.
I am struggling with death and life on scales of equality.

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You make me cry

I cry about being insufficient, and for failing,
I cry about not having you, or being able to kiss you,
I cry about what you do to yourself, what you think,
I cry about the pain I inflict to take away the hurt,
I cry about living a lie because the truth might be fatal,
I cry about everything you are that you won't show me,
I cry about you crying, and not knowing why.
What do you cry about? Why can't I help you?

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