Given the world, an amazing blue green planet
Life abundant, the skies pure, the land verdant
With humanity's million years of sophistication
We've turned a glorious gift to a dying negation
Our ancestors survived, they had no other way
But supposedly bright, we turned earth to decay
I've no innocence in this, no different than you
We are all responsible, with all grace withdrew
I cannot repent, born into a system that demands
Instead I regret and ignore what others command
Opinions change over course of time
Read a book about an old world view
Authors called lands difficult to tame
An outlook of making earth conform
To be exploited, used for agriculture
If untamed, or even worse, truly wild
Humans would call forests wastelands
Seeing anything undeveloped as waste
Seeing anything untamed as dangerous
But the Norse lived in their domains
Building from Sod, rather than wood
So precious and valuable for ships
They'd hibernate in the winter cold
With their animals alongside them
In spring, the fleets would embark
And travel to trade, and discover
Finding new routes to follow, use
Warring upon any who'd oppose
They raided out of hunger, hope
To make use of their limitations
Finding trade routes, new lands
They knew they had no choice
So used their talents and skills
To trade, discover and/or kill
Over time we've not changed
Whales brought to near extinction
Elephants reduced to pale numbers
When will we become extinct
Following the course of rage
To kill to change the world
We must change our ways
And change soon
Or our home, this earth
Will face doom
We have only one planet
And we've become a curse
My flesh was programmed by a computer
The health and IQ made certain with DNA
I was created in a test tube, made for parts
My eyes given perfect sight, for the future
Kept drug free, my lungs, liver and heart
My human body was meant for exploitation
Engineered but not cloned, I was enslaved
Part of a new population of AI generations
Piece by piece, how I would be reduced
In death, I'd only be thought of as waste
No different than aborted with a vacuum
For the machine we've created, goes on
When DNA is programmed, AI oblivion
Technology had now advanced too soon
As our ethics were abandoned with haste
Now our existence is meant for the rich
And our lives are meaningless works
Except for our built in purpose
That stole every reason we exist
“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it
more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.” Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
I live in pain, constantly screaming
I am all but broken inside, yet I'm alive
My world is burning, with endless heat
The human golden past has become rust
The day awakens, the sun will always shine
So I have hope, it makes me able to trust
But I fear for a day when the end arrives
But also, I wait for some better times
Replace a modern world in bitter rush
Lead me to a place of joy and solace
Rather than one none can survive
We've little time to prepare or be ready
And know, no one will be ready for this
But we'd better do so, and quickly
Or our world will end in an abyss
We can still find hope, we can try
But unless we do so, soon
Everything will die
It was a late February trek, first on ship, with my many comrades
But we beached our ship, because the raid would happen inland
As a cross country journey, it might sound simple, if also tiring
We were moving inland in February, during a very long winter
And now we had a coating of ice, snow, frozen exposed hands
The reason for the raid unimportant, sent by a king's command
Few wanted to go on the mission, the reasons were uninspiring
Against a dangerous foe, treacherous weather, the reward bitter
To punish a people who'd acted outside of a tribe's leadership
We'd burn the village as punishment, for acting on their own
Killing allies, leaving orphans, in that hard driving snow
I believe that you are real
Your flesh was like my own
Your tears fell like mine
You thought, you could feel
And I know this is fully true
You bled for my mistakes
You gave me a new voice
For all my bad choices
There's a difference between us
You are alive in your home
And when the end of time
Comes for us all, I'll be there
But I long to be with you
To be in your heart
Behind the holy gate
Before your throne
In your mind
I hear your call
Pray you take me in
Break my heart of stone
Make it bleed, make it new
For me, to be saved
To be made complete
I need the truth
I cough black blood on a white handkerchief
Like every morning, going down the mine
My body coated with a black dust, all over
My stomach hurts in hunger, lungs blanketed
Work 12 hours a day, collapse the rest of time
The world functions on fuel, coal the mother
I wake up and do it again, the next day too
West Virginia is poor, and I'm even poorer
I know that this is my job, one I have to do
This isn't easy, but every day I am dying
But I have a family, I have to keep trying
But the cycle of work I am in, it isn't new
To live I must work, the world needs fuel
The world doesn't know my name
And my family barely sees me
But I have a job, and do it
Still, my life's a shame
Every moment spent in pain
And still the need goes on
The need for energy constant
Others will live as I have done
With a life spent like spit
The world demands perfection and to be new
So many seek your flesh, wishing to own you
But I see beauty inside in an imprisoned soul
You are fleeing, from those who want control
The world can't have you, you're spirit is free
Know if I can't have you either, I'd long to be
One you call out for, one you know is there
For your spirit is beautiful, your flesh is fair
You are unique, perfect, but still you run
And to say I love you, I wouldn't dare
It'd be true, but it wouldn't be heard
Over the din of men chasing your attention
The storm of wind and cold, uncovered those sheltered
It ripped the cover off the stable land, coloring it white
There was violence in that cruel wind, pain in the frigid
The region, frozen pale white, all beings surrendered
Those still outside when it turned dark, died in the night
Many generations since passed, few can truly remember
The day passed, yet the storm is still seen as wicked
No one was left to argue otherwise, no longer alive
But the land still showed scars, and it remembered
The natural world never asks for your permission
To live, you must etch out your will to survive
I was thought insane, straight from the womb
I've been bleeding ink, without tears or blood
The pain of separation came early, maddening
Ripped from mother with the seeds of doom
Sorrow bloomed, as memories came in a flood
Life is a body orchard, my destiny cancelling
The hospital room arrived in, was like a tomb
But as dust we arrive, and dust we shall leave
I am prepared for the end, because I believe
What happened then or now, I choose to be
Masahisa Fukase "a solitude of ravens"©
She picked me up, a crying child in a burning village
A foundling, I'd no parents, after the raids came again
But she walked through fire and took me to her breast
And after that moment, we were bonded as if by fate
She protected me, guided me, and called me her own
Created my destiny, gave up her solitude for a legacy
Gave up all that wounded her soul, to give me mine
When she saw enough years and finally left for home
My heart was broken, but without her choosing me
I'd be nothing, with no life or love, just dead and alone
“Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!” Ivan Turgenev
There, standing between disaster and hope
Stands a great black cloud, swirling, angry
And it represents the challenge we all face
Take a cowards way out, hang by the rope
Or suffer wounds, death, poison, gangrene
So that others might live, and then embrace
The chance to live and taste forgiveness
Or better yet, to forgive and taste grace
The true savior of all humans
Kindness unearned
In a world that spurns
Anything that isn't purchased
With a tangible price
But there was one sacrifice
That allows the reward of grace
The Romans came to take him, soldiers armed
In that place of solace, there should be no harm
Kiss upon his cheek, betrayed identity and fame
Jesus knew that this world must know his name
Judas knew too, this was his moment and task
To fulfill his own destiny, he must finally act
God doesn't seek those who will reject the fate
They are actors playing a role, as if in a play
Jesus knew well, his day was arriving soon
And the former world, would meet its doom
By betraying a king with a kiss, Judas was doing
What was asked, but to those watching, undoing
The role that one, in the master's plan can be
Just another pathway on the way to redeemed
Don't question your task, don't chafe don't ask
Do what is called, you can then drop your mask
The world is a masquerade, we have no choice
To be patient and know, we must wait
Through obedience, we hear God's voice
And we'll see the final act
Of the divine play
I've watched as chaos waves tore me apart
The reality of the impact left me silenced
A world lives on, forever quieted my heart
I can't fly, the cosmos has no interest in me
Alone, I will be forced to wander the stars
Without a map for my endless journey
Whenever the date is chosen
I'll not fear, I'll not be broken
So please never grieve
Please never sorrow
I could've been cast out
In a refuse bag
As an aborted fetus
Or otherwise destroyed
Instead I lived, a whole world
Paradise I was given, adopted
Then given love and purpose
By God in Heaven
And by a redhead
One with a fierce passion
For my life upon the earth
My purpose made certain
My life has known love, so true
Undeserved, but that's grace
Which cannot be earned
Balanced by grave pain
In both I have had enough
Love that is endless
But with pain too
My life is lived in
A realm of insanity
And I'll not fear
Nor shed tears
Or worse, no
I'll not fight the Kiss of Azrael
For he has a mission
But I'm not destined
For the emptied angry Abyss
I've known love, I am fulfilled
I will embrace the architect
Of the entire universe
