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SHAKESPEAR IS RIGHT

Lights up, eyes open

The film’s beginning to roll
Water breaks, cries, screams
This is where life starts
The character and setting
Welcoming the new baby home
For years of loin clothes; toys broken and thrown
Dogs barking, cats hissing; dwelling is ripped fully apart
The plot, main villain
Schoolings to teach and financing the crude
Keeping the youngster’s tank topped
Skipping a beat; completely mucking things up
The change, still trucking; growing at the speed of light
New friends, fresh looks; “you don’t get their life”
Trying to unleash a new taste in a dull boring light
They grew up too quick
Coming home late, drunk and scarred one night
Forgiving their short-comings
Testing yourself in ways never before known
Caring for them unconditionally, compassionately
Discretely, forbid they ever know
That would make them uncool and geeky

It’s draining to watch the days come and go
Like some school of fish in the presence of boats
Trying desperately to keep my head afloat
These buoys of sorrow do nothing but strangle and choke

Nothing compares to the stories unheard
How they eat at our souls
While words continue to burn
Nothing fills up the void
Where this soul once belonged
When it’s been tortured and hurt way too much

Nevermind getting by without a care in the world
Seeking shelter in places once warned not to go
Finding compassion and trust in those without limits or musts
Never giving into the game
Hiding from society’s veins

Maybe the danger from being so close to death
Brings people together or is it just meant?
Unsure of when our time is up
Does a bell toll in the distance or a buzzer go off?
My hourglass appears to be empty
Never been provided with sand
Was I never meant to live or forever do I stand?

You Bit Off Your Nose? (Just To Spite Your Face?)​

I hope it hurts like hell when there's a lot to say
When there's no one around 'cause you threw them away
When there's not a soul left to turn to
I hope your bones ache with your penetrating deceit
With every teardrop you've inflicted on the ones you meet
The sorrow and agony that you've claimed to feel
From all the terrors and anguish you've supposedly endure

As I sit here thinking, “Am I seeing this clear?”
“Did I really just read that?” I stopped dead like a deer
If that says what I think, I then no longer mean a thing
I contemplate the past; unknowingly I begin to sing

First with the fast fun songs then some old slow hits
Out of the dark comes the most furious demonic fashionable mix
I soon then realize that I felt the truth
What the monkey sees, it will soon do

So with my tail twix my legs, I bite the head off the snake
Preparing to be damned, just accepting your hate
For I may fall, I may crumble, maybe even stay down for the count
But unlike you, my dear, I won’t allow myself to be knocked out.
I am far too strong and too wise to tap out
For never again will there be another bought

You were through with me, your excuses rang clear
Blamed everyone except yourself, it is you that you should fear
The fake friend that hugged me, the child that never grew up
Hope you realize what you’re like after bottoms up

Must be nice to have the choice
Mine was taken so long ago
Long before I knew the world was round
Back when I was still a seed on the ground

Found to be lost many years back
Life among the needles in the haystack
The one whom reaped his sow to quick
Killed my life with his thoughtless quip

Regret has yet to ever been known
Misdiagnosed actions of a deeper groan
Closer to results than some might know
Redirected intentions take me away from my home

Never been here, steering clear from there
In between lines of structure, falling short of fair
Just in case it all decides to end
I’ll be sure to catch a glimpse of a friend

Breaching a contract with some unknown source
Gambling waves of no other choice
Screening each name day after day
This window pain won’t go away

Lock me up and throw away the key
You’ll have me falling down on my knees
Don’t make me beg, don’t make me plead
For you know who, my soul to keep

Not much for talking and never will
Another prescription, another pill
Robotic thoughts in a mindless daze
Just go, go, go in some gloomy haze

Always wanted to be one of a kind
Not bound and gagged on a railway line
Somewhere in the past was bliss
Thought life couldn’t get any better than this?

That was somehow a shot in the dark
Knew somehow my world would fall apart
Stumbling around like some drunken Ballard
Hit right over the head with a wooden mallard

It muffled the joy long enough to stand
How longing for another to take a hold of my hand
Lead me through the veins of this rickety cell
These shackles and chains have only time to tell

The smothered giggles nearing
Don’t fool her mind at all
Knowing why they judge
Is soon to bring on a fall
Surroundings filled with deception
There is no rhyme or reason at best
For why only mattering when one’s needed
Then treated just as worthless as the rest

I see no point in secrets
With someone only half as good as you
When there’s no score in the game
Those are your enemies whom continue to play
Those whom you think are friends.
You’ll find it hard to believe
They don't want any good to come
They hope only to deceive

You don't know who to trust
It’s one thing that surely clear
Everyone’s a target
No matter what you hear

Deceit and Deception, over and over again

I DONT OWN IMAGE

LIES

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