Feed the Beast
            
            
            days
   Tying up the old ways
   The woman is here to stay
   Or else time to make a new play
   Commodity trading reveals new investors
   That like the dance of the jester
   Enjoy life before negatives can consume and start to fester
   Ignoring the standards The Others have proclaimed
   Only money on their mind, love and balance is not their name
   Longing for good days
   Tying up the old ways
   The woman is here to stay
   Or else time to make a new play
   War
   The face of the enemy changes again
   The machine continues to spin
   Secrets and double talk to manipulate the truth 
   Soon the falling bombs come into view
   Good and evil mixed together
   Everyone dies together
   Brother man continues the relentless pursuit
   Living is something many don’t get to choose
   Bomb everything to feed the machine
   Let the privileged earn some profit, while they stay at home, enjoying their dreams
   Continuous war
   Diplomacy too much of a chore
   Love is War
   It’s what our country is good for
   Support the party you voted
   Spit on the souls of the departed
   Judging The Others from a different place
   Even if we’re all in the human race
   Vengeful evil that fights to stay in power
   Stomping on the regulars
   Who are armed with a bright flower
   The machine has to continue in search of retaliation
   For those brave enough to resist death and incarceration
   Objecting to the rule by evil in personification
   Continuous war
   Diplomacy too much of a chore
   Love is War
   It’s what our country is good for
   Tunnel
   Does Happy mean rich, able to scratch any itch?
   Flying high on the wings of freedom without a hitch
   Pandering to the corporate stench
   Broke is death, smelling the fumes from coal’s breath
   How to succeed when you start with nothing
   How to fail when you start with everything
   Old clichés form a pile of waste
   Stinging the eyes like a squirt of mace
   Work hard, but it’s not enough
   Sell out in order to find you place
   Battling with everyone in the never ending race
   Mad scrambling just to get a taste
   No light at the end of the tunnel
   Continue anyway, trying to be grateful
   Resist the temptation to become revengeful
   Flow
   Ponder the thought of infinite time
   Only one chance in this life to fight for what is mine
   Same fight continue for you
   Eternally obscuring the clear view
   What’s after this, after all the chaos and mess?
   What really happens when there’s nothing left?
   When hope is gone and all the money’s been spent
   Find some cause to lead to deeper meaning
   Live the illusion in the age of un-reason
   Unnecessary punishment for a life striving for contentment
   Gambling away the future in hopes of fulfillment
   Last chance to make the show
   And see what everyone knows
   Energy diminished and there’s nothing left to flow
   New Day
   Diminishing life with each passing away
   Chance is gone for them, who am I to say?
   Passion to consume the future continues without regard
   Of anything beyond more and better
   Faith in country is gone; somehow murder is no longer wrong
   Stupid people allowed to gain even more power
   Gap widens every day
   Morally flexible is the only way
   Blinders to the plight of others
   Our fellow human brothers
   Build the machine with no real goal in mind
   Drain everything tell gone, join the grind
   How long can it last?
   How long before we become Earth’s past?
   It can’t last forever
   Despite what we know, we continue the charade
   Marching in greed’s parade
   Constant changing, ever evolving, never solving
   Is tomorrow a new day?
   Forgiven
   Fluctuation in electricity in side of me
   Racing thought breeds new incite on what it means to be free
   Continuing to practice, preparing for the next life
   Confidence in not burning after death
   Adjusting to eternal blessing,
   Even though imperfections have left plenty of messing
   No one path is correct
   Many different ways to make the ascent
   Arrogant preaching’s who put down those who disagreed
   Get humbled, forced to work off their misdeed
   There is light at the end of the tunnel
   Working like a funnel
   Some will have more work to do
   Several lifetimes to choose
   Easing out of the evil that consumes them
   With relative time, anything can eventually be forgiven
   Promise Land
   Running low on ambition
   Try to climb over the mile high partition
   Society rambles on, each working for one
   Bonds broken as easily as a fallen twig
   Sinking further, the debt becomes too big
   The fingers continue to point
   Feeling righteous in their ridiculous choice
   Accusations continue
   Forced to defend, logic I try to use
   But it’s all for not
   So just smoke some pot
   Forget it all and move on with the rest
   Let them continue to sit on their throne
   Believing their ideas are the best
   Unwilling to accept blame both me and them
   So we continue on the idle march toward the end
   Soon it will be time to make a choice
   Cut the ties or continue to try and work things out through discourse
   Realist I am about where I am
   Not everyone gets invited to the promise land
   Going Home
   Is it coming soon?
   Will there soon be singing of the hopeful tune?
   Hard to tell
   People say they mean well
   Looking the other way to avoid confrontation
   Expedite the new way
   Like The Others have paved
   Or else face cure of this life or eternal damnation
   The myth of forgiveness taunts once again
   No more smiles to send
   Bending to the pressure, be prepared to defend
   Nothing happened without the planned thought
   Allusion of love is no longer sought
   Love the machine that bleeds the soul
   Earn more money; then load a bowl
   Waste away; no more going home
   Devil’s Company
   Waiting for an end to the madness
   Wasted energy makes it hard to attempt
   What’s the point?
   Another war begins its build up
   This one because of a small group’s lust for power and wealth
   That damages the citizens’ right to good health
   Evil descends to fight the greater evil
   The gun maker rejoices, excited about the lucrative deal
   People become cattle, easily discarded
   All in the name of profit off the souls of the departed
   Nothing ever solved, lives thrown away like too old meat
   The elites find new and deadly ways to cheat
					     					 			/>   Unafraid of the Devil’s company they keep
   Keep Livin’
   Life lesson learned about how to not get burned
   Familiar melody
   Deep inside of me
   Formulating the next path, guess where it leads
   Continue to feel the sting of past misdeeds
   Whole life consumed in a blink
   Swallowed by the Lord of Dreams
   Trekking further into the infinite
   Which place will have the best fit?
   Aimless not much longer
   Failing often but becoming stronger
   Learning from the experience
   What makes the most sense?
   Keep Livin’
   Don’t stop trying
   Too soon to worry of dying
   Questions
   It was clear that the options were dwindling
   Longevity weakened from the surreal feeling
   The participants welcomed the chaos
   The opportunity to make a mess
   Confident their course was the best
   Sporting a hopeful new look
   Not following any particular book
   Regaining the power that they took
   The psychology regains interest
   Mastering the faith, they can’t resist
   Ambivalent desire still forced to persist
   But with long winter approaching fast
   The mood darkens and it becomes difficult to stay on task
   Drown in the bottle, fill up the flask
   The light approaches, what questions do I ask?
   Fools
   Where the future leads it’s hard to tell
   Are we like other civilizations that fell?
   Arrogant dominance leaves a pungent smell
   Changing course, finding some remorse
   Past lives that joined the force
   Choosing to live life for sport
   The meaning of existence continues to dominate the scene
   Assessing the past, figuring out what it all means
   The dreams are stopped to silence the mother
   Not sure who to call brother
   Reach back into the truth 
   What’s the reason to follow the rules?
   Bend the agenda, using the mind for tools
   Laughter picks up from the ones who were presented the golden cup
   Pointing fingers at the ones they believe are the fools
   Let Go
   Listen to the songs other people have written
   To find my own voice, separate from their choice
   Watching characters that become part of me
   No escaping one’s destiny 
   Boundless energy fueled by the thought of eternity
   Let go, feel the flow
   Teach what you know
   Never too late for life’s show
   Bad Karma from avoidance and laziness
   Stoned thought ambles back to ambivalence
   Meaningful search that resists the urge
   To exploit the broken agenda of the one with curls
   Exciting days come into view, never too soon
   Let go, feel the flow
   Teach what you know
   Never too late for life’s show
   Redemption
   What’s the matter, still worried about what comes after?
   East it out of your mind
   Just be kind to your fellow man kind
   Change what you can, follow your dreams
   Don’t just be cogs in the machine
   Rise up to fight the stupidity
   That festers inside