prioritize This.

These are just bodies
This is just flesh
And yet we praise it

There is no happiness here
Just flimsy green bills
And yet we praise it

Work 40 hours a week
At a job we don't like
And yet we praise it

Lose all of ourselves
To be with one person
We praise it

The soul in its splendor
The depth lies within
Yet we neglect it

The poorest of poor
Would thrive on our money
Yet we neglect it

We have goals to pursue
We have dreams to explore
Yet we neglect it

The dreams of our fathers
The sacrifice of our mothers
We neglect it.

Madmoiselle

I see what you do not put in front of me

I can’t breathe without the sight of sweet serenity

I love to know you’re there caressing me

Why does it seem so sweet when you turn your back on me?

Madmoiselle, why does it seem the simple life you shun?

Madmoiselle, into the fickle night you run

Madmoiselle, left me you have with tainted hopes and thoughts

Madmoiselle, you’ve scarred and trampled all your lot

Your touch separates me from the other fools

But You want to live your days tether-free

A lofty goal you were from the start

Left me you have, picking up the parts

I’ll find a way to make it

I’ll find a way to see

I’ll find a way to piece together

The pieces right in front of me

To whom it may concern indeed

All troubles now dismembered keys

With endless rage and thought gone by

Lonely apple bring him by

I have known your wretched solfege lips

Insurmountable through the timelessness

Of wandering skips through paradise

Sleet laden caverns now lonely lies

Shattered, tempting thoughts progress

Not knowing why but have a guess

Aching bones of tales long done

Attach to plastic dreams above

Timidly settled, but quickly gone

To depict the image on this day

Of breathless miles before the quake

Of breathless miles before the quake

Is this Love

Spiraling upward, plummeting downward

The plagues of emotion, a menacing jester

First lust

What is this curious creature?

He darts from the passenger seat,  grabs hold the wheel

Takes me down a road filled with temptation

One where the road never dies

But the conscience more fierce with each turn of the tire

Next pleasure

Oh that warmth and elation

A tender heart enshrouded in love

Disrupted by realizations of temporality

Longing longing longing

Longing for eternity like heavenly beings

It jerks to a halt; a stop sign

Expectant while also reluctant

Next comes melancholy

The realization of fallacy

The buts and why nots

Soaked in a cauldron of misery

More ingredients are added and stirred

Pushed farther into the mix

Scattering of pieces

Release of the tethers

Alas, I have no strength.

Pressed with such pressure

Fighting the inevitable

Warding off the intangible

This demon cannot be seen

Lastly, mending, healing

The emotional self has been tossed tattered demolished

A rebirth is in order, yet far from attainable

I wish to wallow in this sorrow still longer
And put off life until it comes knocking

Creatures

As creatures we love
As creatures we play
As creatures we live
Til the end of our days

From first opened eyes
To very last breath
We search the skies
For meaning and depth

Cast open our arms
Beckon others inside
Working our charm
While feeling such pride

Move into our shell
The feelings are bland
Release from this hell!
Create a new man

Chin up and refine
Feel it again
Cross over the line
Where have you been?

Come forward, do enter
Create a new home
Not merely a renter
A permanent loan

Take what you need
Just let me be
Why must I plead
You cannot see

The whirls the twirls
The endless delights
The falls the calls
On torturous nights

In the end all alone
All worries and cares
The cycle churns on
I am not there.

Zoos Rap

Underneath overgrown florals is where you’ll find me

When the day is hot the nights cool, and pines reak

Immersin in nature and spittin out the bad roots

Unlocking Pandoras box, and given it back to you

Everyone today thinks they need whats out of reach

But open your mind, and understand my vital critique

Your shallow, boring days will finally meet their demise

 The broken world you dwell will notice brighter skies

Thoughts untapped, mingle about, holding for

The one to unleash, activate, and make it pour

will you be ready, whore?

Or are you gonna, be subjected to, the constant let downs, breaking life in two, in which you’ll never know you?

Grab it by the horns, notice norms, break them off, start some shit

 when the day arrives,  your living in you head

Then you can go back to the life you had

Or you can realize brighter days lie ahead

What most don’t understand is the value lies within

Mack tringling bitches means nothing in the end

I’ve got the skill to weave your mothers best tapestry

And the verbal intricacies to color Zoos’ artistry

So perhaps I’ll see you down the road, once you’ve sold your soul

And you’ll be a skeleton of a man on deaths row

And I’ll be sitting high and mighty, not on my possessions

But on the concessions and recessions of life’s blessings

Its right infront of you, just reach out and grab it

Once you’ve felt it you won’t give up like Roger Rabbit

Abounding joy, thoughts unleashed, gifted kings with noble deeds

A myriad ways, no evil days, treasures flow, bitches go

But it continues, won’t let up, stays flowing, keeps knowing

Always pleasing, never leaving, never needs a reason, just believe in,

Own it up, throw it up, Spin around, let in down,

It will satisfy even when your buried in the ground

That’s what life’s about, finding something to stand for

Whatever it is, hurry up and find it, knock on heavens door

And tell them why you came, or they’ll tell you whos to blame

For all the shallow choices you made, all in the name of the game

Please. Don't. Share.

So many minds thinking so many thoughts

I don’t know which to believe, so I’m not

Gonna pledge allegiance to any set of ideals

Hand crafted around something seemingly unreal

Who can claim they found ultimate truth

When they can provide absolutely no proof

You really expect I’m gonna fall for that?

I’m my own person avoiding your trap

Your life is going by right before your eyes

And all your doing is falling for their lies

God gave you a brain so you could think for yourself

Not be another book sitting passive on a shelf

What I’ve seen makes me question whats supreme

What you’ve not keeps you like a robot

Constantly doing someone else’s bidding

Me with that lifestyle, man are you kidding?

So you choose yours and I’ll stick to mine

Stop shooting out your thoughts like its Columbine

The first step to grasping any form of belief

Is to let go of what has caused you all your grief

Any previous beliefs that you kept deep inside

Will now be forced out by the wayside

The beauty of standing for something you believe

Is better than remaining ungrounded like breeze

The world can be such a fragmented place

It no longer matters about class or race

With so many different idols after your heart

Everything will eventually rip you apart

So find a perspective and holdfast to it

It’s the only way that you’ll get through it

And once you’ve died and all has gone away

Still in the heavens your soul will stay

Put your trust in something than you far grater

And follow the will of the omniscient creator.

Sack Up

Us independent thinkers are unsatisfied with the world

We want to unmask the mocking smirk of normalcy

And find the truth

We are not satisfied by the promises of the church

The gentle lullaby that sings so many to sleep

And makes them forget the worries of the world

But they are there, oh my they are there

The worries seep from every infrastructure of society

And make their way deep into my soul

To not scrutinize this immensely intricate world

Would be a sad injustice unto oneself

When everything that occurs in the world can

Simply be ascribed to an act of God

Life loses its mystery

Motives are no longer questioned

All becomes expected

And sure, if this helps you to cope with your world

Then you go right ahead

If the only way you can feel a sense of purpose

Is to look for things above

Then you will have your head in the clouds

Ignoring what happens right here

To search for truth means to search for oneself

To search for oneself is a difficult process

We live in a world of difficult processes

So sack up and find yourself

And believe not what others tell you to believe

But believe what makes the innermost fibers of your being

Resonate with assurance, love and begin seeing

Sleep

How dastardly a devil to creep up like this

When I most need energy, he only persists

To make my eyelids turn an ash-worn gray

In hopes that I’ll see the end of today

Though tomorrow rears its anxious head

I want to tell it to go find a bed

For now I shall see what I’m made of

Pardon me for thinking sleep a waste of time

A life spent catching z’s is one of rot

Seems the other 25 letters I forgot

Guess I will just lay here on my cot

And tell myself, I need sleep

And let my soul by death be reaped

Just let it out

Enshrouded in the fumes of life

Have I been left in the dust?

Need to make time for myself

But living life to the fullest is a must

That’s what this goddamn culture keeps telling me

Living to the fullest is most important right now

I can address all the heavy shit when I get older

And by that time I’ll have it all figured out

But I can see straight through that lie

In fact, I think we all can if we just try

But to do so is one of the scariest thoughts

That maybe I’ve become another robot

Break free from the sturdy tethers of society

Wait! I might fall and who’s gonna catch me?

The one who will always be there is she

Then she leaves and you continue to bleed

Contentment through materialism is the only way

Buy yourself more shit and you’ll be happier today!

Then all your shit burns down in a huge fire

And ashes are all that remains of your empire

Loving one another is the only way to heal this pain

Humans need to understand we are each the same

We awake to this planet and fall asleep in its fangs

But our important lives we will continue to feign

The illness is so deep within us, we may be too late

Bring down the castle walls that shield the shared heart

The only way to each other is to realize our common fate

Otherwise we will continue on, only more torn apart

Too HIgh

Let her thighs fall through the skies

Alas a reckless village lives here

Whose mountain shoals and greasy caverns adorned

With faint wisps of ancient longing

Existing just to sleep with no snore.

From the basinless cliffs of dark days

And wondrous beasts of angelic haze

A book without strings attached, into a processional asthma attack.

Move for me, your tricks are hooves of bespeckled pines and Eskimo gaze

Another dance floor indeed as you scratch the canopy sun before it’s paid

O glistening shoals and bodies laid

Gnashing souls battle over thee wretched clouds

That carry her whims, and paint them with rain

Broken hearts and shattered souls, all victim to heaven’s praise

Oh rock the neck and cease to crave

Those tornfully schematic luscious graves

Weekends came and went in those seasoned days

With others unfurled, their wounds now paid

For too soon the body endures, countless baths of newfound chaise

Cleveland hearts won’t miss the sun,

When their mildly processed joys ruin fun

Lovebirds here the song I pray

Refuge, come to days repaid

A wounder’s glimpse of liquid phrase

Goodnight fair moon and victor’s laze

Another day brings with it praise