We all know close-minded folks With blinds pulled over their eyes Disguised, sheeps clothes Lion with no pride So prideful nonetheless Spiteful, deceitful Regrettably, it just might be Present climate season We imply perceived niceties To keep our needs within reach Means to an end To pretend and receive ends Get ahead, who can condemn In a culture of bad news Catch-22's Relaxed and cool is a fools attribute Rather act like brutes Talking trash In fastfood drive-throughs To every last bastard that moves Attitudes are flat opposed To the status quo Even though that unique view Is matched by most Wearing these castes of alloy To mask and cope as outcasts Coat of arms attached To defend against attacks Though offense is relative Insults theoretical Reactions from backtalk Adjunct for each individual Ambiguous Fighting against what doesn't exist And when it does exist, we miss it Because we're too busy in conflict.
Certainty Ambiguity
We chase certainty Perceive the unknown as alien Instead of handing over control We proceed to mail it in Leave it in the junk bin To prevent latent grief And other brief tensions Encumbrances we meet Should puncture some vents In our bubble, let the air in it Better yet Venturing outside our airless aquarium Our built nest, platos cave Once we're unchained Our behavior then becomes strange To the layman that remain So instead we don't escape And don't let anyone else enter in To shelter our sheltered view True maldevelopment Collective madness Attributes of absolutes Prevent contamination With a polluted vacuum Which is counterintuitive Counteractive to congruity We all pursue to be set free With ambiguity Thinking we can control All variables is hysterical We may not know whats good for us Go with the breeze as it flows.
Self-Righteous Blindfold
I'm sick of advice Especially when the giver is mine own Like I have the right Self righteously blindfold Myself with selfish pride Against what I find identifies As a minor slight An offense exemplified Misanalysed regrettably I recognize, apologize Try to resolve my hollow spite An amoral bind I'm misunderstood Or maybe I misunderstand When I put my foot in my mouth Instead of lend one a hand Decide others woulds and shoulds Without being put Afoot in their reality All my putdowns are true fallacies The nerve or grounds, to serve around My personal concerns Is so impersonal Shows no backbone or vertebra That happens when this cloud Of outcast self-doubt Powerlessness Is the foundation throughout Structure becomes a house of cards Shaking, swaying just waiting That it is in fact safe With shameless validating My unstable ways I didn't build them solitarily But socially, culturally Environmentally ill-conceived But mindfully through readjustment With beams and sheetrock Maybe I'll remain upright With others to lean on.
Wear Your Wounds
Living frantically Trying to manage my manic need To keep up fantasies American dream vanity I keep what can't be seen My damaged seams If I don't show that skin It may vanish like tannery But blending in instead leads To panicking To every candid happenstance Against my planned conceit In reality Living concealed is insanity Being human comes with wounds Accrued from the usual calamity No ones immune don't refute it It's mutually earned Yourself and others Hard truths are duly discovered Bruised and battered You move forward To get through the dust storm to cover Until other tribulations emerge Learn to fail or fail to learn Wear scars like brail to interpret Your hurts Each one reads that courage occurred.
Take Loving Action
The ancestor to action is intention Collection of willingness Optimism, and reverence Ones sense of self in reference To connection Acceptance to the world It really in't against us Theres no preemptive malevolence Except the misperception of fears invented Apprehension instead of essence Of wherever our heart is destined When we pressure and force variables It only takes a toll on our own Coronary arteriole Tearing holes in flow We don't know the endgame For us to impede what we fear May be impending That's insane Each day is a sensei to teach us Heed the struggle and tedium Continually meet each with love
Go Far
Forgive yourself For you live with yourself Dismiss past tenseness And live for the now You have a perfectly Permissive disposition Exquisite distinction Individuality to fulfill in an instant Start to tell your heroes tale With your past avails to Passages to brave passed Himalayas to scale Castaway at seas to sail Gail force breeze wails Unyielding terrain Unequal travail Blazing desert plains Hypothermic glacial nights Accolades amass at you lap With each flag, each sight You keep riding Knightly dragons slain Castles made and break the same As you blaze with no blazon displayed Anomalous you remain Stardust rebond You belong across the sky You've already come so far.
Steadfast And Yet Relaxed
We don't know our own strength The toll we take From toes, legs, torso Abdo, throat, face The whole framework overstrained Over-paced behavior Whole array misshapen Til it erodes away Slowly frayed, flayed daily From greed and shame We retain Each bait we proceed to take Facebook, tweets, dm's Social media snakes Can leave a cheap Fleeting remark a screen away Harming the cohesion Our weave like yarn texture Our coat of arms tears apart Like polyester Mustn't fester Over the sorry folly of others The effort to judge Is much easier than to serve So rest assured And set forth the steps towards Your bettering incrementally Beckon those against that course.
Our Home
Why do we force the course, Of source, performing "reformance", Against the forms of nature, Natural organisms, Transforming terraform, Our born worldly existence, Insistent on controlling it, As if it's opposition, Consistent resistance is causing us, Chronic sickness, Dismissing authentic growth, Oblivious to it's ripple effects, It'll be a bitter pill instilled, When it comes time for swallowing, Our life energy starved, From gobbling up with gluttony, We'll swallow it like arsenic, Poison, toxic biotics, What it causes, Honestly we're probably already absorbing, Absolving all of us, We got the disease of disregard, The earth wants us, To be a part of it in all of it's art, Heartily we must accept, Our connection, Acknowledging our extension, And pledge to better our collective residence.
Allow Growth
Allow what is sown to grow The fertile seeds to sprout To sturdy trees flourishing On the forest surface throughout Shedding offspring on the ground For chipsmunks and squirrels to prowl And spread around And burrow where the sun sheds down Against pockets of mountain pine White oak, striped maples Climbing with quiet determination The heights they are able To find day light In their wake make shelter for critters Vertebrates, birds and insects Catepillers hatch to flitter In color, a subtle beauty Becoming truly enticing In every nook and cranny hiding The canopy is so inviting Let it strive.
Modesty
Why do we believe our ego so? It sneaks in, reaches, seizing a deep hold When we feel low and oh so vulnerable To believe we are sheep concealed in wolves clothes We're only deceiving ourselves Our hell is our own making That we create to keep at bay From the traits we deem forsaking A tall tale from a small frail Part of us That was once in arduous hardship But honestly isn't the heart of us We are love Like artemis we must guard and protect Our innocent marvelment Before impressionable judgements scarred them And hardened our skin like marble What's wrong with being unremarkable With open arms, in all that we go through To remain modest is honorable.
To Be Frank: 