The Starry Skies

   As you know The time goes Life waits for no one You've learned that alone When time stopped But only for you You knew That in life nothing really matters And death comes for us all So why would you be sadder Over a lost soul You know not the reason You care not to learn And as you know through loss The only reason as far as you're concerned Is the pain of a soul that yearns Longing for a loved one Who's completely gone Hoping to venture for once Into the far beyond Cowardly hiding in a corner Or trying to take a trip It always ends the same way Step by step And in the strange lights of the night The darkness is consuming You fear it for reasons you don't comprehend And as you know We will all meet an end Be it happy, be it sad Whether it matters at all It doesn't matter at all Between family and friends We'll all be missed And the sole reason why Is because a soul does cry Something unexplained within The bodies of men The strange power that governs us all Th...

  As you walk in the darkness You'll see that you are alone Despite the company that carries you Into battles that are not your own Blessed by the glimpses of silence As you take a walk through The power of defiance And despair holds you Prisoner to your own thoughts And not privy to them all In the quiet cold embrace of the dark You hear the darkness finally call And in that cold sweet place You may find your final embrace Or you may walk yet again Stand tall, stand ever-proud Stand strong, but never bound By anything at all, and more For the world is finally yours For the taking, for the reaping For you are untouchable And the dark through you will surge And it's control over you will cease Stand up, my dear, stand up, and feel The way they fear, the way they feal The way they kneel before feet And then you will know That I was right all along And you should have never shut me out At all But we both know that story Where it starts, where it ends Abandoning all that you've...

  Staying in bed Awakened By strange thoughts Ruminating What the end ought To be like Instated The insomnia Gnawing so deep into My soul And I'm left All alone To wonder whether I deserved anything At all A hero, a soldier I was called By people who don't know The truth They think they know Because I'm still a part of The youth Smoking the air Filling my lungs with oxygen Without a care In the world, or within Fear has a way of reaching me The deepest parts of my heart Controlling my every action Ripping my life apart And in the tidbits of shattered pieces And a dead consciousness I see Something is truly broken Within me I don't know what it is But I know it's been there for long And I know it completely refuses To leave me Alone For the hardships have followed And left long ago I walked into a battle That I had nothing to do with And I lost My chest was rattled By the fear I felt within I was gone And in replaced me A person unknown A stranger's mind A wander...

This is your time To feel alive And wind the clocks ahead You are now ripe To breathe the air Your vision shall now spread The opportunity's here Seize it! The future is now Believe it! Your anger doesn't control you Cease it! Your fears can't stop you Face them! Watch them burn to ashes on the ground Behold as the echoing thunder of the clapping sounds Shake the very foundation of the earth Under your feet and around you, you'll see Your ideas being birthed Your vision belonging in the now The time is right, seize the moment And never dare you ask how Because you know You've always known Far better than anyone could Your potential is so strong Your ideas were misunderstood But not for long Not anymore For people finally have a reason to believe You've proven yourself worthy in this eve So dance and drink and party away Tonight is a celebration Seize it And finally your medications Are not needed Spread your wings and fly Make them gasp in awe And when you final...

Dear Yusuf, I am writing to you from the future Things out here are dumb and stupid And honestly I wish someone told ya That life takes a toll on the mind And things spiral outta control And you shall grow up to find That you can't direct it at all In the time of your growing up You'll come to know me I'm a strange man, and stranger yet Is what you come to call me I'm the stargazer, hi I come to you from a different life To tell you about what it's like Maybe this'll ease your suffering Over time You've lost a whole lotta things You grew up till the age of six Unaware of what was going on Your dad died a long time ago Bummer, that that went wrong You never knew the man, really But you loved him nonetheless It's strange, really That feelings like these could exist Either way you moved a lot Your family's been on the move for a while And now you're going to a new school Hoping to yourself you'd go there in style Well let me tell ya, my dear chi...

  I listen to the wind The tide that it brings With my sailboat on the seas Exploring to see How far I can go What will I know What's beyond the veil What's far over there Exploring the sea Of myself Listening to the symphony No need for help The skies darken now The storms are conjured Hide under deck Until it passes along Perhaps it'll pass Perhaps it'll turn my boat I don't know For I am alone And I know that I will Whether the storm Under the sunless sky I sail With the clouds blinding my Starlit trails North or south, I don't know All I know is that I'll go Somewhere I listen close to the sounds Coming along the windy nights The symphonies produced around Impossible to spot by sight Yet if you listen And listen close Your ears will catch A glimpse of it all When the skies descend And lightning does fall We hide inside Our tiny wooden boats Hoping that the storm will move away Hoping that the wind would direct us home Hoping that the skies will give way ...

  Walking through the darkness Lit up by the light of the stars The creatures of the night harken To the call The brightened streets Filled with stray dogs Howling in the night Like their ancestors They will fall As I walk through the starlight I see the fear in their eyes The predator's become a prey Far and wide All over the globe Domesticated them all Scoffing to myself, I wonder How did they fall From grace that far Wolves and killers Hunters of the night Following the thrillers With all their might With teamwork they succeed Chasing down their preys How did we change them How were they swayed And then I remembered We are humankind To this forsaken planet We are the worst blight A simple walk through history Will teach you what we are not There is no real mystery Just a simple plot For man thinks he owns the world And own it, man shall do Hiding even the light of the stars Behind nightlights of old Oh they have no clue With science they can be gods With creation they can make n...

  You caught me Ensnared me Captured my soul Taught me So beware me Because you've changed it all And in your works I was transformed Into a new being, whole You were the Capulet to my Montague I've never loved a person the way I've loved you I've spent years stunned and you had no clue A haven I've found to be nearby When you were close by my heart The freedom I once had to fly Without you has been torn apart If you were so kind as to tell me why Tell me why you're so suddenly gone At least it'll ease my hurt At least I'll release myself And stop torturing my soul You once had every part of me Every detail, big or small Attached to the palm of your hand God I wish you'd understand But in the end there's simply no way You've moved on years ago I'm still in the same place And oh I just wish to know Why you left me in this state My soul thought it met it's mate And in my ruminations I really did try To understand where things changed In...

  In the darkness I walk a mile alone Smiling and frowning It does not matter at all And oh no If I had never explored The darkness of my mind Where would I be found It took me many years to find The reason why My way of living got disavowed And even longer so To know that that's alright And inside that cloud Of darkness and smoke I live my life Forlorn, lacking hope And in the end of it all There'll be nothing left at all Besides of course Me and the darkness of my mind Questioning every decision we have ever made Him and I are alone together now Sharing our damned fates We smile to each other and take a bow For we both know we're in a disgruntled state And unaware of what we might be in the end We live life day by day In the darkness of my mind I found a lot of strange things It's like we belong to the darkness And all the bells it rings People fear it And are frightened by it's existence Some others find comfort in it In the calming, cold distance And even I feel...