Tag: Poetry

Are You There Yet

Are you a treasure or just a trophy
Are you a nice to have or a necessity

Are you the text message or the phone call
Are you making an effort or none at all

Are you a date night or just a late night
Are you the postcard or the plane flight

Are you a roller coaster or just a bike ride
Are you a mind blower or just a nice time

Are you closer now or just between the sheets
Are you making actual love or make believe

Do you ever question it or just accept it
Do you offer it or just expect it

Are you the main course or the side dish
Does it empower you or just impoverish

Are you doing it or just on the to do list
Are you the go for it or the I wish

Are you a make it happen or a wait and see
Are you a definite or a supposed to be

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Jimmy’s Got A Loaded Gun

Shots fired
Jimmy’s got a loaded gun
What were you thinking
How do you intend to evacuate an already abandoned building
Filled with children
Already dead inside
Void of light
Self destructing, self employed victims of the night
Self deprecating, selfish and selfless
The ones they avoid
Seek, kill and destroy
You’re helpless
How can you help us
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To The Fire

Wake up, Supernova.. rise and grind

If you want to shine then you’ve got to put in the time

If you haven’t got to go to work then why get up at three

Because I love progress more than I like sleep

Oh that’s just way too early; I couldn’t do that myself

Well then you just might spend the rest of your life working for someone else

I’m chasing my dreams while I’m awake

I’ll only miss the opportunities I didn’t take

I’ll only lose if my eyes ain’t on the prize

Sacrifice is to choose paying a price

If only 5% are willing to give then only 5% will get

The other 95 will just have to accept whatever’s left

Whatever’s left is the result of anything other than my best

Do better to get better, expect nothing less

Today I seize the beast by the horns

My painted face to the storm

Naked as the day I was born

Deep in the thorns

Redeeming all the pieces of me that were torn

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Abort

We as man have become the robots and the androids we long sought to create to aid and to serve us
We exist now only to maintain and improve on the technological systems, machinery and electronics we’ve caused to exist
We are all now the maintenance workers and systems operators of them
We’ve taught them all we know
And enabled them to become faster than us and smarter than us
To even think for us
And in the process have allowed ourselves to become docile and dumb
We mighty, masterful, majestic, magnificent men once upon a time are now merely mechanical
Who now know only of the mechanics of the mechanisms we’ve made
Mightier than ourselves
Which now own us
And are the owners of our minds
See what we have become
Minute and minuscule microcosms of our former magnitude
Now consumed in the wizardry of circuitry
And ruled by our own embellished and fancified yet perishable and destructive, ill-formed finery
It is we that are at fault
We’ve come to naturally worship the functionality of man made accessories More than nature and mankind itself
And the human functioning people we once functioned as
We’ve fashioned ourselves into superficial cyborgs
Dependant on silicon and cellular communication
Our now neglected, ill-treated, broken down, corrupted, fried up, malfunctioned and fragmented faculties fail us
We’ve transformed ourselves into mentally manipulated mules
Driven by our own foolery
And so, the once wise, we now arrive as fools
Downgraded but updated to the latest upgrade
So now we’re disguised as cool
Redefined but no longer designed to concentrate in school
Or learn at the rate that we used to
We’ve high priced gadgets and lowered IQ’s
We’ve traded in our minds for more time
Our knowledge for technology
So of course, at the flick of a switch, the touch of a finger tip, everything appears to be working properly
Where was I?!
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