The Ultimate Price

Sailing in a sea of bitterness

Isn't it worthwhile for a single drop of happiness

A moment of weakness

In exchange for a lifetime of experience?

Look at the world, at the sea of human heads

Do you think they give so much as shreds

Don't you think that as long there is life there is hope

You may cope or you may elope

Though it's something everyone may deplore

Just don't go knockin' on heavens door

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Fleeting Times

These fleeting times, these greening meadows

Birds and bees adrift the warm cosy wind

Of children's rants,and of Juliet and Romeos

And days of drudging for the artistic kind

A rare moment of serenity, a conclusion forgone

Ohh.. What a great time for a good big yawn

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I know you feel hurt

And seeing you makes me so even more 

I know you think me as heartless and curt

As I've put on the mask of the unheeding senor

But I know someone has to do it

And me, I've chosen to be the one to commit

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2021

Sigh.. one year closer to death

A cup of water from the river Lethe

To forget our worries 

Amidst this year's snowy flurries

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Life in the hospital

People from all walks of life

People young and old, people good or bad

Forced to walk between life and the afterlife

In greens and blues they're clad

They look to you with hope in their eyes

Mustering the courage to finally ask the most difficult question

"Son, I'll be fine right" they ask with a hope the heavens despise

Their puffy eyes glowing with a hint of suggestion

"You'll be fine, don't worry" the words make it to the tip of your lips

Only to be swallowed back with a gulp

You know you shouldn't couldn't make those slips

But every time it's the same 

Every time you can feel the shame

Life's a dangerous game, who can you blame

You can only feel lame....

Untill this world we humans tame

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Irony of Life

Born unfettered and free

We begin to shed our freedom in layers, you and me

Chaining ourselves to the devil's glee

And so we start on our life's greatest mission

To find that which hath been lost

Before the flames of our lives come to a flickering conclusion

For this every modality we exhaust with no care for it's cost

 And so we write our final chapter

Trying to find that long lost laughter

Regret

I don't ask to be forgiven

Only for you to listen

For you to know my eyes, yes at your thoughts do glisten

It was my obsession, my life's only mission

But still, I'm sorry to you I couldn't listen

I wished I would just be forgotten

I come to you now driven

As I believe from my mission I have risen

We each had our own ambition

I still do wonder how you to me and me to you became a mental prison

But still, mom can I ask to be forgiven

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