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Father
02:31
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Only 20 sets of eyes
No one else waiting to say goodbye
Only 20 pairs of ears
Stories of the great times no one-hears
Three generations
Sat and calmly stared
As no procession came
For something we can’t prepare
Each photograph is torture
Each anecdote is poison
Each memory is blurred
Each error is absolved
Be Good...
All alone, irreplaceable
Laying prone, irreplaceable
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Pride
02:11
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A look of disgust as you wave in the wind
No pride, no feeling, retired again
Tattered drenched, torn and burnt
Stiff or stretched, butchered rags
The motion of a morning prayer
Forced to recite ad nauseam
Stand and chant, hat in hand
Who do you put your trust into
This is all mine but I don’t want it
Expired undesired
Foist that rag, hoist this rag
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Honesty
02:03
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Scandalous treacherous Lecherous pressure us
It’s worse than you think...I have proof
It’s worse than it seems, what else is new
What is a lie when everything is false?
What about me?
What about them?
What about you, what about you?
Doesn’t matter anyway.
Play dead stay dead
Doesn’t matter anyway
Just nod your head
Believe everything, question nothing
Spin it, wrap it, gilded in layers of shine
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Friend
02:22
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The once endearing figurehead
A slow repulsion living dead
Mouth stays shut fingers in motion
Reversable magic potion
Stained in the name of “always right”
“Can’t let it go,” “won’t lose a fight”
Idiot, moronic drone
Make your noise, until crushed by stones
This is the last time
The book is closed
Never a pleasure
Always the clone
Stained in the name of “always right”
“Can’t let it go,” “won’t lose a fight”
Crushed by stone
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Child
02:44
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How can I help? Possessed
When will it end? Commence
Everything is fine. Pretend
The top of my lungs. Amend
Watching you fall down a well
Descent through screams of agony
Return to Earth, shattered
Draining my empathy
Drenched and drained, breathe in breathe out
Erupt collapse implosion commotion
But sweetness overwhelms
Love fills the atmosphere
Takes the air out of the sky
Smiles that can stop time
Breath escapes tears dried, to no avail
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Nightmare
02:17
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Whispers and whimpers, dreading a furtive sound
The floor creaks, hinges whine, waiting to drown
Lie in wait, Manipulate. Lie in wait, Denigrate. Lie in wait, Satiate. Lie in wait, Obliterate
Save me.
Where is my savior? Please be my.
Whispers and whimpers, dreading a furtive sound
The floor creaks, hinges whine, waiting to drown
Shame fills the darkness, curtains stay closed. No revelations, under your nose.
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Waste
02:17
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What do I tell the faces-staring back at me?
Spin it like a carousel. Each horse rocks up and down. Travel in a circle, with no destination
Pockets and plates stuffed, self aggrandized.
In the name of all that’s sacred. Followers mesmerized.
Vultures. Wild Dogs. Scavengers. Carrion.
Punish the thugs. Shoot the messenger. Protect no one but the gluttons.
I know what to tell the faces but it’s not important.
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Age
02:38
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Families grow smaller as urns overflow, rooms close in as we apply each coat,
watching gardens shrivel up and weeds grow, hair grays/skin sags, backs begin to bow
Sand, sifts just, like ashes
Straining hourglasses
Huddled, shaking masses
Time, does nothing, but passes
Pile upon pile upon pile
Pessimism
The only things that never get old are expectations dashed, hope recedes, and change ends, reform dies, progress stalls
and we lie
We lie...
Under piles of ash and acid rain, and rubble and refuse and detritus and feces and poison and filth
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