The World Devoured

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

What could be worse?

It’s easy

For you to decide

That I’m the one

Who is to blame


It’s easy

For you to say

That I’m all wrong

All the time


To turn your head

And turn your heart

Into something

That you’re not


I watched you

From right beside

Where you stand

And I see you

Now where you are

A million miles

From who you were


But I guess

You get to get

To be whatever

They want

Now that

You’ve sold yourself

For whatever it is

You think you need


You wear

That mask well

It looks nice

From afar


But I knew you when

You could remember when

You were true

To yourself

And your morals

Screw everyone else

It was always a tug

But not a war

I ever thought you’d lose


Where have you gone?

What have you done?

Becoming someone

You would have hated

But it wasn’t

So long ago

That I read your thoughts

Before you even had them

I knew the pace of your pulse

Before your heart even beat it


Where have you gone?

What have you done?

You’ve become

Someone

You would have hated


Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The thing that can't be named

Why turn left instead of right?

I got a law degree

He builds pools

For a living

But who knows

What we could have been?


Had I been un-pieced

And you’d been

More than what

Got you through

The day

And we’d been

What we saw we had

The possibility of being

When I looked into your storm eyes


They say I got stuck

To the shape

Of the world

When you and your kind

Were around


But in this Crushing Age

Where the hives are dying

And there’s war

In every corner

Before these end days

Where the disaster

Just blurs together


The world at my finger tips

Just seemed so much more

Crucially engraved

Colours and sounds

Clearer in my memory

Than what is

In front of me today


That might have been

Our chance

To be our best

Can you say you’ve

Come so far?

That you’re going to be

So much better

Than what you were before?


Who knew....That the currents....Would take us here

Who knew....That those little choices....Would lead to this