A faster food, a slower death Additives subtract until the souls bereft Left to hunt and gather where it’s mass produced Convenience requires that we have to loose Choose lust just pretend its love The idea alone, is a deadly drug Choose one religion dismiss the rest Repeat cycle, sin, repent, then confess Wi-fi connects us to a world shrunk Pulls us further apart, snap, curl up Shut the door scramble communion Simulate a life, from the room you live Views and ticks hits and trends In the land of the smartphone living dead Crave likes and mentions a vain acceptance Gratified by a crazed faceless assemblage The chasm surrounds us Mimics our calling A tandem of cowards Willing to fall in The chasm has found us And it has found us wanting Ship sinks I drown Chains, links Wrapped ‘round Ship sinks I drown Bewitched Dumbfound The light shines the wheels spins Need the roll of a dice just to feel things Buying anything to fill an empty void Rent attention with intentions of expensive noise Poised, in a fashion curd Vacant logos brand us to the cattle herd Here’s your value worth, a wearied pot Sound the soirée, Reaper in your earshot Best years lost, forever hate your age Yearn the surgeon’s knife, desecrate your face It’s a rat race, no finish line Pace is trivial, keep within the lines Go against design become binary code Ones and Ohs stuck in lines and rows Until we’re devoid, obsoleted Enslaved to ploys of our choice achievement The chasm surrounds us Mimics our calling A tandem of cowards Willing to fall in The chasm has found us And it has found us wanting Ship sinks I drown Chains, links Wrapped ‘round Ship sinks I drown Bewitched Dumbfound Liquor rush anything to live it up Relinquish inhibitions of this British blush Riddled drunk, comfortable in this slump Life is easier when you don’t give a Popping party drugs, give the liver rest Dancing on your grave while you dig that trench Inhale a little death exhale a bitter stress Cigarette smoke silhouettes a bigger mess Inward breathe In those weeds a jest, mischief and fret Prescription pills to take away your ills Tethered to that heal to test your will Under pressure chill float in opiates So when life is real you’ll never notice it Open wrists sick of that gruelling numb Cut until you feel that the rule of thumb The chasm surrounds us Mimics our calling A tandem of cowards Willing to fall in The chasm has found us And it has found us wanting Ship sinks I drown Chains, links Wrapped ‘round Ship sinks I drown Bewitched Dumbfound

With age and neglect a change is thrust A face of rust flakes to dust Wake me up to the age simplicity Before we debunked every strain of infinity Wisdom heaves regret, self-doubt The silent screams I cant yell out Time ebbs down stream flows to a spill Cascades upon plains when it’s over the hill A sobering chill beholding the drown And the parts me I banished to a ghost town Slow down to watch myself haunt these walkways The streets, fields, buildings and hallways All day I wonder where my time escaped to Slipped through the cracks id hacked for a break through Make do a mantra of tantrums Couldn’t see the prison bars for the sanctum The earliest Stencils I shaded are theirs to dandle Nestled in the frames of my parents mantle Adolescence shaped by pressure and vandal Measured by the grades of every lesson valued When I came of age to stress so tangible Stepped on stage where they hecklers wrangle Blessed was the day I’d neglect the manual Tear the pages, Undressed the tangle Merited the fade and the debts we gamble accepted the way that my errant candle... drips All my effigies of yesterday Dance with vigor through that cleansing flame To the songs of days I had wished away So I’m caught between worlds sleeved in a chrysalis Weaved in bereavement, grieving my innocence Reminiscent quivers get the best of me Just another symptom of my hypersensitivity The highs of simplicity revel in that ore Flashbacks execute a nausea    Pause for a second gawp horizons Where arteries have forked and divided                                      Caution and silence, my two best friends Remembering an age where bruise met sin Loose met win but they both were impostors And either one could morph to monster Lost so many days to the spoils of illusion I’ve since twisted to a coil of convolution Confused when I found that my heroes draw blood What maudlin lens to explore love The earliest Stencils I shaded are theirs to dandle Nestled in the frames of my parents mantle Adolescence shaped by pressure and vandal Measured by the grades of every lesson valued When I came of age to stress so tangible Stepped on stage where they hecklers wrangle Blessed was the day I’d neglect the manual Tear the pages, Undressed the tangle Merited the fade and the debts we gamble accepted the way that my errant candle... drip All my effigies of yesterday Dance with vigor through that cleansing flame To the songs of days I had wished away

So tell me If I paint a smile, maybe you can love more Dressed as a clown with a propensity for blood and gore Summon war, roused in the rubble On a quest for courage, I found trouble Double Dutch fumbles from contorted mouth Conjures damp rising from this haunted house Fawning sprouts whispers from a spirits tongue Draws me to the woods where the witches hung Until they swung, hanged from the oaks brittle branch Very same tree my initials carved Armed with harpoon to kill coy And fears I have known since a little boy Fill the void until it’s neat peat at 6 feet Where blackouts are the step dad of the big sleep Riddled heap A.M. another failed exorcism Bad blood dripping from a head that’s splitting So I drink to forget but begin remember Left my heart in that snowy December Tend to consume ‘til I darken the room Sit and watch Venus as the Martians loom Then I drink to empowerment but cower in its wake The blood the beast spills is sour in its taste I tend to consume, ‘til the laughter balloons And bursts on this party of two As medicament simmers to poison A blue funk sings the dawn in Even thinner blood dries by morning For they can only love me when I’m you I can Hyde behind this lie But I can’t Hyde you So in the coming of an age I stumbled on a treasure trove Unbeknownst was the curse on that embezzled gold You never know the price until the pockets turned Pissed away my youth into a shoddy urn Watch, learn, listen a fool hardy party trick I can arm a timid misfit with charm and wit A Discarded magic, old hat rabbit bundled in Catching sympathetic jeers at family function Breathe dysfunction, never felt enough But I can harness super powers when I thin the blood Mix up potions Hyde from the jackals A shy teen shined when prescribed what the adults gulp Sculpt away the weak mould Lions mouth ajar social media freak show My people caught a creature they caught on a camera phone And I seem to share some features with that animal So I drink to forget but begin remember I left my heart in that snowy December I tend to consume ‘til I darken the room Sit and watch Venus as the Martians loom Then I drink to empowerment but cower in its wake The blood the beast spills is sour in its taste I tend to consume, ‘til the laughter balloons And bursts on this party of two As medicament simmers to poison A blue funk sings the dawn in Even thinner blood dries by morning For they can only love me when I’m you I can Hyde behind a lie But I can’t Hyde you

Entangled with the roots of this synthetic tree Surrendered to its fruits so pathetically Truth evades the hours where subjective weaves You can’t flower press with dishevelled leaves These bloodied hands pass the buck devalue it These fingerprints are plastered, so claret red I mourn every second spent that I haven’t kept Those nestled in our Venn a diagram of sacrament And on days that I feel like I’m dying I look to the light that my children provide when Bedlam consumes every morsel of brightness Remind us we’re more than our quietus There’s nothing left In the halls of our conquest Picking up the dead in a war we haven’t lost yet I’m just a mirror image riddled with our concepts Hoping someone qualified can simmer down this hot mess And on the days when I feel like I’m dying Fright strikes a chord to hymn of enlightenment I want to seize the day but I’m not sure how My weaknesses enabled me a conduit of doubt I want to seize the day but I’m not sure how As a bead in a wave, a modicum of ground I want to seize the day but I’m not sure how Seeking a way to be lost in the now Alas, there is animus in suffering Magic in our utterance, our majesty is buffering I want to walk away but I have to stay This lawn I’ve arranged must have it’s day I want to walk away but I have to stay Every doorway and gate poorly handmade I want to walk away but I have to stay I was forged by the flames of our habits craved Alas, there is absence of mother ship Tragedy that underpins our flagships of current wins We place a veil of necessity over the crude the callings of our desires We, the masters of justification We have normalised dystopia Paved the roads that lead us there with notions of adventure We have been taught greed carefully kneaded into the shape of success, pay it forward Celebrate it at any and all costs We have created such grandiose complexities, our achievements are noteworthy Yet we fail to comprehend their true meaning and worth As pride is in the eye of the creator We have imagined gods, fashioned them from ideas and rubble We live in shadows of things that have grown beyond their purpose, beyond the reach of our stewardship Beyond us Blissfully unaware... led by a spark of our own ignition We have basked in our own glory for too long, blinded by its blaze The buoyancy of our ego and self worth may not weather this storm The point of no return may already have its date etched on a milestone disguised as glorious structure Thankfully we are not footnote, not paragraph, nor sentence, nor word or even letter A typo maybe? Withal, the seeds we plant may just reveal the answers that have eluded us That is a notion we should embrace Build the new worlds upon it It should have never come to this We were meant for so much more Our numbers are too many For all of our trials, passions, accomplishments and connections We are significantly, Antagonist Yet there is wonder in our wander starlight in our passion, flashed of utopia on our horizons and in our peripheral And beautiful purpose in our complex tapestry It should have been so much more simple This should have been a sentient dream If only we had just