"living just to keep going, going just to be sane, all the while not knowing, such a shame."

Going just to be sane? Slow down, it's just a game. If you move to fast, you'll conquer the board, and satisfaction will drive you insane.

No Goodness In Hearts You Say?

no goodness in hearts?
so- successfully,
has been played the part?
thus, effectively
has the efficacy
of this world
become proven,
so widespread?
has a wealth of hostility
overcome this society?
oh- the inability,
lack of productivity,
imagination,
creativity?-
where have they gone?
each notion- dead?
i dare you-
debate me-
and defend.

The strangers here have not brains to strain so they maim those of us who must take all the blame for all the productive games we play.

We can laugh and jest at the contests we contend but in the end we will not mend, for the time to amend has somehow passed and we must now commend the consequences of our acts.

Baffled

Slightly baffled
On a battlefield
Where the attackers
Are the scattered,
And they batter
The rungs
Of this ladder
And now I'm hung
Scared I'll splatter
Like water
On a counter
Only to vanish
Like it never even mattered.

Butterflies

If only we were butterflies
With only three days to survive-
lt'd be all the time
I'd need alive
Because when
You live
Like tomorrow's the end-
Every moment,
And every memory
Is flooded with intensity.

The Greatest Thief

The greatest thief
Is a swindler of time,
Whose relentless,
Endless
Goal in mind
Is the desire to relieve
Sooner than is prime,
As if he'd strip a tree
Of her leaves
In summertime
And hamper her growth,
Damper her strength,
Shorten her length,
Make scamper
And scare off
All that life gave her-
Just a collection of days,
Of seasons and phases-
Not to be forsaken
By those awakened.

Chess...

Let’s have a staring contest
Amidst a game of chess
Where we can’t look at the pieces
But are playing for conquest...

allow the void

babe, just face the facts
you and i
have a contract
our contact
is not compact
because we don't challenge
each others actions
because they're just a fraction
of the pieces we enact
in tackling the barriers
that life dawns upon us.
as brazen as we may muster
we had our fuss-
it's over
because we got past it
without harsh judgement
and this'll last
as long as we let it-
i wont question
your gestures
but i'll ridicule
your hesitation
because we both know
you're gonna make it
beyond what has been
for you, created,
and you'll break wake
in your own heaven
with your own saints
and the angel
with whom you'll conquer
shall be found
and you will not falter
when you encounter
his graceful presence
and his essence
casts your happiness.
you will know
and you will take it
so just wait-
don't make this
something that's not meant.
forsake this love/hate-
it's not your fate-
it's place
may have significance,
but it's face
is disguised with innocence,
yet, the mask
turns into ignorance
when you choose to stay
instead of take
what you have learned
and use it instead to earn,
and surround,
let yourself yearn
for that which
you've simply
not yet found.