A scorched spruce stands amongst the smoke.

Just Live

~Poetry~ Here on this shared planetRegardless of what you doInevitably the world will changeSo do not listen when they sayYou cannot change the worldFor if you breath tis inevitableJust being aliveYour influence pours from youThere are of course varianceIn the virility of one’s abilityTo install the change one wishes to seeBut whether by choice or by accidentYour path on this planetWill in some wayPerhaps in … Continue reading Just Live

The sunsets behind a lake.

Alone Incapable

~Poetry~ Alone I am a personIn truth I’m not capable of muchThis much is true too of youYet together we the peopleFor the peopleas one peopleThe whole universe is oursThough not for the takingIt’s for the givingThe more we takeThe poorer and poorer we begetThough we do not impoverish our “foe”It is only ourselvesOur children, and too theirs yet unbornWill be born into subjugationSlavery of … Continue reading Alone Incapable

A ruined landscape reaches out into smoky skies.

Foundations

~Poetry~ We have built our civilizationGrand and vast it’s spreadBuilt monuments to our greatnessSelf proclaimed superioritySo called in our great arroganceIgnorant of the true god of creationThe source of all that there isCall it as your preference castEvery title refers the same beingCreatorThat which put us into motionBreathed consciousness into usThat which set stars to night skyAnd paints each palette of colourIn every beautiful stroke … Continue reading Foundations

An abstract face resembling a skull

Hug Me, I’m Scarred

~Poetry~ Written for Wordy Weekend Prompt #5 over at Caffeinated Philosophy My parents never did hug meFar too scarred from their own parentsWho were also far too scarred from theirsAnd so the wounds pass down ad infinitumNow I too show the scars deep withinHidden beneath the layers of talesCarefully laid over and over to coverA million stacked lies told one by oneBrick by brick the wall is built … Continue reading Hug Me, I’m Scarred

A young man symbolically cuts his throat; abstract art

Civilization Is Barbaric

~Poetry~ Time and time again provenWritten in our histories bloodShed again and again our kinWalls built of the body’s deadTowers of babel again rise upAlways falling under its ownBuilt on a weakened foundationSlavery, greed, deceit, hatredA desire to hold god’s own willAnd wield it as if a great weaponIn our ignorance point it at godWe desire your power! Yield to usSlitting our own damned throatsCondemned … Continue reading Civilization Is Barbaric

Abstraction of two parallel trees one in negative, one positive.

Infinite Cycle

~Poetry~ There is a certain inertiaA force to drive all existenceAt times quite apparentAt times impossibly subtleIt’s the day and also the nightThe heat and so too the coldIt’s our lungs as they rise and then fallOur hearts as they push our blood in and outIt’s the very life and eventually even the deathIt’s the beginning and it’s the endWithin these parallels, we exist bound … Continue reading Infinite Cycle