An unofficial guide to world peace
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry

A person who turns a blind eye to the killed
Might as well have removed the sword from its hilt

Might as well have helped cause that rose to wilt
In the garden of loveliness we've built

Might as well have taken that stab and spilt
another drop of blood in the rusting sea

Might as well have befouled that view of the sky
with the wretched hue of the green of greed

When the selfless are made into selves and victimized
and the guilty cease to be shunned and vilified

As unfortunate women take gasps and cry
as the rights to their bodies are ignored and denied

We stand corrected on the terms we've agreed and signed
and stay determined in our selfish goals to find

Another way to enslave, force and bind
another generation to make and wind

Makeshift toys to dance on china plates
and create giant speakers to reverberate

The same old messages of lust and hate
Fishing for criminals, casting out bait

Filling more chum buckets and casting sail
Never managing to catch sight of the white whale

Yet we keep blaming others, riding coattails
Finding methods to muffle the sorrowful wails

Only time will tell if a leader is seen
Who is wise at handling blades, and keen

Enough to not let the many memories fade
and with these substantial lessons pave

A path to lead us from ignorance that blinds
under the olive branch's shade to find

A valid reason to hold back vengeful fists
Only then will we ascertain the meaning of bliss.


sammage

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I’m free.
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Writing and Poetry

Currently listening : Absolution By Muse Release date: 23 March, 2004

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My Whimsical Cadence
Current mood: pleased

The Achilles' heel of adolescence
Sought with congenial lyrics of chicanery
Bearing false witness and testaments
To fill abysmal corporate pockets

Masks of black chemicals
Cloud authenticity's illusion
Feeding the psyche of the proletariat
With vocal vituperation

Waves upon waves of new hosts
Withered by text messaging's toil
Search for the spring of submission
And find the black suit's banality.

sammage

Currently listening : Touched by the Crimson King By Demons & Wizards Release date: 28 June, 2005

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Unyielding Revealing
Category: Writing and Poetry

A hero is just someone who has been
on a lucky streak during the noticed interval,
much like a worn plank of timber, rising momentarily
to the surface, gleaming with the insignia of a
long lost legendary ship.

And so fickle faiths are not such a hard concept
to grasp- like ageless superstitions, they provide
a miniscule foothold on the mountain of knowledge
we thrive to climb in our lifetimes.

We all falter, we all give in to our inner demons,
we even instill hope in false faiths.

Yet one thing never changes-
our fundamental reliance on the self.

From this base, all attributes of a person
gravitate in rings of varying lengths-
the closest being the unseen,
the furthest- tantamount to material things.

And so I say to you:
keep your priorities in orbit!

Make sure your rings are discovered
by wandering astronauts in the way
YOU would want them to be.

I'm a perorating preacher barren of persuasion,
a picaresque Pope devoid of a palace,
a penurious priest fanning a conflagration,
imbibing prodigous sips of Pandora's chalice.

sammage

Currently listening : Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! By Bootsy's Rubber Band Release date: 11 June, 1996

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Bolero Of Brutus
Current mood: hopeful

Riving at the purlieus
In ever ebullient zest
Sedition structured his onus
Emblematic by his jest

Astounded by the aftermath
Guilt-ridden, ostracized
A mollified monstrosity
Invests in praetorian eyes
Northern lights irradiate
Substantially illuminate
The venal vagrant's path

Tides have turned, and still it seems he
Yields dismally to fate's yoke
Restrained from Good Will's courtesy
A sapless sumpter provoked
Nightly weeping vile volitions
Now a peon of perdition
Yabbering at his cage encloaked.

sammage

Currently listening : Ask DNA By Seatbelts Release date: 20 December, 2001

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I Am Not
Current mood: restless
Category: Writing and Poetry

I am not a soldier
I am not a saint
I am not yet modernized
I am not yet quaint

I am not a passing craze
I am not a prophet
I am not a businessman
Seeking a large profit

I am just a writer
Moved by warming words

I am just a poet
Is that thought too absurd?

I am just a dreamer
I write what my mind sees

Now I see an olive branch
Swaying in the trees

Now I see a shining dove
Flying over Greece

Now I see a homeland
fostering world peace

Now I see a guiding force
Orchestrating the unseen

But what do I truly know?

I am just a teen.

sammage

Currently listening : The Triumph of Steel By Manowar Release date: 13 October, 1992

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Foretold Fallacy
Current mood: productive
Category: Writing and Poetry

The guise of close friendship was too much to boast

Your beauty was subtle, with no features too alarming
While I lacked all of the fundamentals of a classic Prince Charming

You say that you've differentiated yourself from the mainstream
Talking about how you've led the life of a straight-edge prom queen

Claiming to be adventurous,
boisterous, and bold

Yet you recapitulate the horrors
and demonstrate what you're told

Spinning spoons of silver into shirts of shallow silk
Deteriorating the gold into cups of curdled milk

Whisking away the winds of free thought
Initially you seemed to be a bit distraught, but

Now I see that your insecurities are part of your composure
You morph yourself into many molds, amplifying your exposure

Donning the mask that you had once condemned
Rising to new social heights, you start to condescend

To the common social folk with which you had once mingled
Complimenting your roof, reinforced as your shanty town's shingles

At present they lie in dirt, enveloped in fabric
To end another cycle of a story so tragic.

sammage

Currently listening : Atlantis: Hymns for Disco By K-Os Release date: 20 February, 2007

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Paradigm Shift
Current mood: exanimate
Category: Writing and Poetry

sammage

Currently listening : The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner By Ben Folds Five Release date: 27 April, 1999

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Felicity's Phantom
Current mood: stressed
Category: Writing and Poetry

Bewildered you'll stand
appalled at my form,
for shattering the mirror;
redefining the norm.

While in a fit of ecstasy
you'll fail to reminisce
of all the nights
when something was amiss;

The simple songs I recited
grew increasingly faint,
as my goals became
infected with
motivational taint.

I'll acquire that paper seal
I'll be "happily" employed
at the cost of a childhood
I could have enjoyed.

The cost of contentment
has so suddenly increased
as the value for free pleasures
has all but deceased.

You can't sell sunshine
for you're just a pawn
who will cry for daylight
at the crescendo of dawn.

As the decades defeat you, monopoly hat,
your offspring will quickly beat you at
the tragic game that you devised
that led to your own youth's demise.

sammage

Currently listening : A Twist in the Myth By Blind Guardian Release date: 05 September, 2006

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Versatile Virtues
Current mood: rejuvenated

Keep gazing at that artifact of illusionary luster
Exalt it with all the pretty words that you could possibly muster
Biding your time until I ascend to the stage
Pull out from my sheath a vengeful silver blade

Pause- then shatter your desire
Melt all the unnecessary things in a raging fire
Similar to the opening of the sacred Ark
Yet this time the cause of attack isn't half as stark

It's simply the wrath of a revolutionary force
Reshaping historical events and manipulating their course
Much like the apocalyptic battle we've all rehearsed
Except this time the deviants are astoundingly well-versed

In the words of the wise,
the statements of the solemn,
with the diligence and eloquence
to rebuild every column

Of the Temple of Truth
and its every Wailing Wall
including a telephone booth
in which you can call

Upon a hypnotic heavenly
higher holy power
so it can speak in tongues
salivating downwards a spiritual shower

Showing you the path of good
without man's complications
Revealing the first source of
wealth, and the advent of nations

Reminiscing the verbatim story
of the galaxy's creation
with no artifical flavors
or humanoid saturation

sammage

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