Thanatos II: Flame to the Pain, to Redemption

I had a dream last night
That I lost myself in the bright.
I wish you could've seen it.
I tell you...
I know I'm good for something
I just haven't found it yet.
I need it.

Like a King in his castle:
Hidden safe within his walls.
Surrounded by loyal men
And dining on rich food.
I'm happy.

Like a King in his fortress
Trapped within the cage.
Fooled by monsters he's created,
Sipping putrid poison
From a jagged cup.
I'm falling in silent delirium.

A walk among the palisades
Allows me to breathe.
Thoughts beyond the walls
And a stark reality right in front of me.
I breathe in my own exhalation.

To learn is to lose:
In torching my own defense,
I stare my enemies in the face.
Bloody fangs bear no witness to this anger.
So let all burn -
Let the sparks of fire reach the sky
And set me free.

Flame to the palisade;
Light from the bottom-up
Freedom follow pain.

So
Don't tell me I wasn't dreaming.
When I can see now
I've wept in morose slumber all my life.

Charcoal dreams and incendiary scents
Begin my destructive path outside the cage
To become that catalyst,
To watch the world burn
And hold open the gates that bind us all.

Thanatos I: Post (Re)Birth

This world is dying a slow and painful death. That is the fate of this world - these people. We live in a society where we talk to each other from miles away on cellular phones and think that's it's more personal than email. What happened to face to face contact? We've lost ourselves in a dark abyss of pesticides, lies, murder, rape, monetary gain, and we are forever love lost. 'Love' has become the quick-fix sugar rush that we constantly strive for, but we have yet to accept that we're always looking for a better 'high'. We think that we're expanding our knowledge...but we've never been more stuck in the history of man. Imagination is losing its' lustre with every invention that we've dreamed of. Dream is dream. Reality is lost. Hear my story.

My birth

I recall

Rewind

I remember
My cries as the white hands
Caressed my pungent body.
Crying hands
My grasp to the sliding walls.
Home
My forever lost.

My growth
I remember

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I recite my lie
The words that connect us
These words that bind me to misinterpretation.
To hurt.
To confusion.
To regular conversation.
Letters to myself.
Revealed to public eyes.
Mocking.

My present
I recite

Error

I feel
Anger
The pain
The emotion of the planet
The dissonance of the people.
Hear me.
Listen.
You don't.
Blind.

My future
I know

Fail.

Love is hidden among us
Within every person
Explored in the depths with one.
Why do we advance when all we need is here and now.
Man is always making things easier.
Easy never hurt so bad.

My life
I wonder
The possibilities that will return us to the beginning.
The rebirth complete
The animal lives
The noise ever-growing.
In numbers
In words
And as the music fades
The chaos begins.

Take my hand
And we will run away
Into the darkness
Closer to the beat
Beat
Beat
Of the human heart.

There,
I will be the catalyst to bring this world
To the end
With smiles and salvation.

Delete.

Eros V: Part of the World

She's part of the world
that I hate
but attempt to love.

We're getting older
than we ever saw coming
but we allow time to be ever-changing.

This love will not endure the test of time.
This love will not make it to see my eyes of tomorrow.
This love will only serve as a first home.

Her heart is a secret place that only I know.
Even if another man wanders in,
He'll never see what I've seen.

This world plays wonders on us.
Spins our very souls
Until a mix of gray is all that's left.

This is the gray I hate.
I despise the artist that allowed our wonderful colours
To be ruined in penultimate gray.

Beside the black
We are doomed within the shades.
And I love.