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Treasure Hunt
Searching for more silver And grains of gleaming gold For eminence and esteem — The prominent pastime of old A constant quest For more than can be Possibly possessed For power and oppression — Hopelessly obsessed Since the completion of the start And commencement of the end There’s one thing that’s always been — Greed The one mortal flaw That unifies us all And hardens the softest heart Greater wages for less labor A goal for all to share For awe and admiration From those who couldn’t care To sustain self-certitude For success and satisfaction Use not fraudulent force But the Heart’s pure application Naive expectations Of younger generations “Have…
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Visions
I have visions in my dreams Of lonely people on lonely streets I have visions in my dreams Of quiet schools with empty seats I have visions while I work Of scattered people in scattered towns I have visions while I eat And it’s too late to stop it now Something will happen I have foreseen a sudden change Something strange is coming And no one can stop the pain I’ve envisioned many things And they have all come true And this, my friends, is just the same We’ve played our hands and lost the game Some say “Let there be peace on earth” But what they have in mind…
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Lights
Stars of white Flickering bright Angels to guide our way They give us sight In a darkened night And sometimes take our breath away They help us on our journeys Turn on when we are home Save us from the demons While we’re sleeping alone Together and apart They share a common heart — To help us to pretend That the day will never end Searching for darkness to overcome Fighting to reach the eyes of some Shining sparks Spirits of dark Traveling beyond Forever free For us to see Sailing on and on… They bring life to motion And emotion to our lives We panic without them For without…
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Progress
Moving through confusion Moving through the breeze Between the crowded minds That walk the city streets Avoiding hope and vision Avoiding common change Traveling the darkened road Wondering if indifference guides their way Trying to break away from stagnant fear Hoping one day to sail the open sea Losing ground while others follow In the footsteps of thoughts set free — Distrusting their gut feeling Not taking the forbidden risk Unlike many before who tried And jumped ahead in steady stride Running around in circles Running around unclear Searching for the open door To let their dreams appear Not wanting what they’ve seen Not liking what they’ve read Trying to…
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Castalia
Time has long since passed before me As I dreamed of what would come Sometimes sitting alone in darkness My mind has grown weary and numb Desperately seeking inspiration That special something of mind That comes and goes in a blink of an eye I can’t have left it far behind Castalia! Weep, let me drink your tears Cascade across my sullen fears Pour on me your inspiration That I may create for years Give me back a meaning for my life So that I may carry on To share with the rest of humanity The reasons for any song Castalia! Flow, for Muses’ sake So that I may lie…
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Deviant
When they hunted with rocks And threw their spears They never dreamed of the world ahead Survival Their sole concern Kill to live Let the fires burn… Change the world! We should all be kings Why must we do what everyone says? Let us go in our own way — Live to kill! May they one day pay… Lost in tradition The silent expedition Marches wearily through the words Of society Left out in the cold Getting lonely, getting old Hoping to gain notoriety From the classrooms To the streets The children of the world Are born again! Fight Scream Play Cry Hope Pray Always try To stay alive Don’t…
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Unsacred Domain
On a dark desert highway There’s nothing in sight And there is no light to aid view All you can see is What’s right in front of you Your headlights don’t reach As far as you want them to And then Just like a flash of light It jumps out from the right And you can’t stop in time You try To veer off to the side But the road’s not wide And you can’t stop in time You can’t stop in time You spend a day alone In the desert sun You can’t find an animal Who’s days are done They know when they’ll die So they go off…
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Trophies
A tired and painful journey Trying like all the rest Giving everything there is Striving to be the best Drawn towards a common goal Competing with swifter feet Others passing on their way Trying to avoid defeat Fighting to win — never losing stride Hating to lose — never losing pride A spirit burns within the soul Looking for the secret to success Adrenaline generates fevered confidence To be the best With common fame and glory An ignorance comes to pass Unaware of trifle motives Which in the end come last Making way for the future Which greedy hands erect The unstable satisfaction That foolish desires reflect… Personal achievement —…
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Part of the Darkness
Part 1 Greater than infinity Larger than the sky Within the hardened hearts of steel The feeling you can’t hide Conscious of those staring eyes Looking in from the dark Makes your hair stand up on end As the fear you have sets in Fear’s part of the darkness That keeps you on your toes The part of the darkness The darkness you don’t know Set the stage for imagination As you encounter new sensations With widened eyes and much demise You have unseen relations Beyond the realms of sanity And blind courageous acts Heartbeat quickened in an effort to Discern fiction from fact… Part 2 Look into the eyes…
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Fiction
We read things we know aren’t true And pretend to do things we can’t do But we play along So we can stay in the game Materializing thoughts and words Making moves that are so absurd That we fail to see We are all to blame We blind our children’s eyes We fill their heads with lies And speak of the untruths that we’ve read Fiction shapes their minds Leaving them hypnotized While we go on as if nothing was ever said As we stand for all that’s right We sit and watch our children fight With empty pride To save some other land Reality is fictitious In a world…
