Category: Arcane Poetry Vol. 1
Transcendent Life Preserver
Drunk on knowledge Parched of meaning Certain of direction Lost in application. We are capable, I believe, To create something GOOD Regardless of subjectivity. From despair and depravity A human can create beauty In their world Through the loves they share, The pain they endure And the ability – Followed by determination – To BELIEVE…
Equally Disoriented
Trapped in a solitary bubble Surrounded by people that I don’t know So much potential That I’m afraid to use I am afraid of failing Afraid of feeling Secluded within myself Still reeling from past hurt and confusion My life is my own now And I’m trying to forget who I was And where I’m…
Economic Warfare
Economic Warfare: A paper war of cash, cheques And casualties time has forgotten, bloodless corpses Hollowed-out edifices, houses of corporate capitalisms Entities not human, Frankensteins of a legal system Not accountable for their abuses, not apologetic Just profit machines, monsters to serve their masters Propelled by the sweat of paid slavery, voluntarily submitted With no…
Ascent of Dissent
I feel like a criminal An outcast, incorrigible For my misanthropism And my refusal to comply With the fire within That burns to destroy and create And the struggle to resist What I know to be wrong So I live my life With freedom of mind If not of action And begrudgingly submit To a…
that I should profane
That I should profane These pages with such thoughts A delicious guilt Of defiling something new
A world of secrets
A world of secrets, shadows And the creatures that dwell in it Spies, thieves, politicians Crooks, liars and killers It is the world about And a mirror of within