"Haywire"

Just when you thought everything was gonna be okay

Our haywire minds are set to meltdown

There’s no escaping the maw of shadow

Human nature is a system failure

Close your eyes and start the show

A vintage slideshow of pseudo happiness

A place to hide your bitter self

Subliminally baptized in pretty release

Back in action with headache tactics

Our haywire hearts are set to meltdown

There’s no escaping the maw of shadow

Human nature is a system failure

I swear to God, no one is happy in this world

There is no place to lie your head for some rest

This world is a bleeding stress ball

And the iron fist of woe grips it tightly

"My Heroine"

She's quick and she's cool

She's strong and she's beautiful

The one that will never destroy me

Never tear me down

She mends my howling spirit

She builds me up

I never would have seen her coming

Faster than a train, stronger than steel

She's the multicolor flower with a million pedals

I can pick them all off and she loves me everytime.

"Heart Shaped Heart"

Ghosts with rounded edges, hanging in the sky

I miss you terribly but I’ve already said goodbye

My heart is whole again but scarred forever

The darkness rolls by like a thunderstorm

The past is gone in the blink of an eye

In an instant, friends became foes

In a sequel they are friends once more

While those closest to me are now covered in permanent marker

And I’m the only one left in the photograph

I wish I could dance to the sound of time

The slow, melancholy swing of the pendulum

The tale of love, rivalry, betrayal and hate

I just hope you’re happy out there, wherever you are

As I exit the pixelated reminiscence, my mind melts

And the future draws near…

"Enervating Sigh"

The wide eyed dog at the end of the table

The hand in the fingerless glove on the side of the road

The glass eyes of a caring heart

Can’t complain when all you’ve got is scraps

The shame of the pariah, the taste of guilt

Stones cast into the sky as I remain still

The hand grips the pickaxe and swings once more at the ground

There’s almost no reward for what I do but that doesn’t stop me

So don’t short change me for what you don’t see

The ghost of persecution haunts us all

And I am somebody, worth my weight in gold

“Non-Fictional Fatality”

Silver tongues and eyes set to destroy

Just tell me why you’re so persistent

You’re leading a crusade against me

My gentle, peaceful heart put to the test

I’m seeing red and there is no calm

A breath from the crypt, a sigh of despair

Disloyalty stirs within the sibling’s mind

The bonds of blood bled dry for a stranger’s sake

Her ghastly lips turned hostile; an automatic weapon

Piercing a heart, trying so hard to recover

"Lens Flare"

The white threadwork glistened in the sun’s expanse

The beheaded manikins were captured there

Like flies with wings snared by the ebon weave

A solar expanse and a blinding collapse

All in an instant

Sun dried emotion drug out in the open

I was splitting apart from the inside

As my glass fell in slow motion

Inanimate and floating through time

All at a glance

The hand fell from its rest within mine

A turning head is all I saw that night

As the sun went down so did my spirits

My eyes no longer harbor the strength to stay open

Nor my fingers the will to write

As I fade to the world’s injustice

Be it that I leave my own little mark

If not but a little scratch

I’d use my finger nails and make an “S”

Maybe I could manage an “O” and a couple “R”s

But I’d probably die before I finished with a “Y”

"The Great Divergence"

There is darkness and there is light.

There is black and there is white.

Occasionally we fall into the grey.

At times when we are led astray.

The deepest black is a gift and not a curse.

It is but the purest white seen in reverse.

It is because of the darkness that we see the light.

The contrasting of being blind and having sight.