Selfless

Selfless little me
but does it set me free?
Selfless little me
Selfish, I'd like to be
Just one night for me
But I'm selfless, always will be.

Focus

When all that I have is emotion
And rational walked out the door
When the walls of my brain have been damaged
things start to get out of hand.
All of my life seems to crumble
but a boulder beneath my feet
It's slippery so I must focus
Or slip and fall into the deep.

Crowning Grace

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity,
the holiest right of the soul,
the golden link which binds us to duty and truth,
the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life
and is prophetic of eternal good"
- Francesco Petrarch

I have a long way to go..

Coward

I'm not selfish for making the occasional choice for myself
but whenever I do, thats all it feels like.
I can't do anything without feeling selfish anymore.
I am a pushover
and what's worse than that
is that I am a coward too...

I'm sorry

I'm sorry my heart did not fall for yours
that I hurt you, left a scar
I'm sorry my heart looked to someone else
that I'm going to hurt you more
I'm sorry my brain did not quite compute
and I dug myself in a hole
And I'm sorry I cannot change how I feel
but in my life I must be first
I'm sorry that I have been too scared to say
to tell you things you should have known
I'm sorry I couldn't make up my mind
some things must be done on my own
I hope that you won't be too angry
that you won't look at me with hate
I am sorry for what I am feeling
but its my life, my heart, and my brain

Command

"When the mind commands the body, the body obeys
But when the mind commands the mind, the mind repels"
- Dune, Frank Herbert

And perhaps more importantly, the heart will never listen

Brave

Sometimes in life we have to do things that terrify us
a new job
a new city
a new country
Things that can shake us to the bone
Bravery is being scared out of your mind and doing it anyway
These are the things that make us stronger

We Are

We are the human and the mutant
We are the weak who build the strong
We are the liars who burn our own truths
We aspire for right, yet choose to be wrong
We are the human and the mutant
We are the kind face of the cruel
We are live to fulfil our nightmares
We are mortal in search of immortal fuel

Sword

The pen is only mightier than the sword when the ego rules the soul

Alone

I feel as if the world fails to move around me
as if I were entirely alone
in a sea of black.
By my eyes betray me as I watch the world around me
though still
forever moving, forever changing, forever aging
as I do.
Time passes
But it is as if I were alone
and time passes ever so slowly

Numbers

A number is just a number.
There is a number for your age
A number for your weight
A number for your salary
A number for your test scoring
A number for your placing in a competition

But the number isn't the point.
The point is that you are alive, so Live.
Number don't make you who you are.
A number is just a number,
don't let it define you.
There is nothing wrong

Leap of faith

Sometimes there is nothing better to do than to just jump
Fall through a leap of faith
and hope that you land in something soft.
And if you're really, really lucky,
Maybe someone will catch you
And maybe, just maybe, they'll capture your heart

Decide

'Tis your choice to make
and my choice to wait
but I cannot decide
and I must not mistake.
Each day is a new light,
each night fills with cold
If I'd only decide
If only I were bold

Skin

I just want you to know that you are a beautiful and valuable person.
It doesn't matter the colour of your skin or your eyes
It doesn't matter what your clothes are made of (or if you wear no clothes at all)
It doesn't matter where you live, or where you're from,
And it certainly doesn't matter how many zero's are in your salary.
Smile and be true to yourself. Let people love you for who you are
If they still want to hate you, then they probably aren't worth it anyway.
Life can be trivial and we all know it.
Best just make the most of it in a skin of our very own

Strength

In the arms of another we are twice as strong
but with this extra strength comes intense vulnerability.
Strength is protecting your weaknesses
and occasionally we find ourselves alone against the world,
no one left to watch our back
and infinitely more vulnerable

Within

Behind these eyes I lie
Within this heart I cry
Watch my skin run dry
I know that death is nigh

Today

Say my name and make it new
Open your eyes and see your world in a new way
Listen to the sounds and look at the view
Live in the moment and live for today

found

If you are not lost, does that make you found?

Think Big

If you could change something about the world, anything at all,
What would it be?
Would you solve world hunger?
Undo climate change?
Would you put more emphasis on education?

I would make everyone more compassionate, more considerate.
I would bring us all together to see the things we can do.

Think big, even if it's only in your capacity to act small.
Every little action makes a difference.

war

When the rich make war, it's the poor who die
- Linkin Park

Room

There is room to breathe in the eye of the storm

Speak

Speak only the truth
and never lie
and you will learn

Forest of the found

All that will happen will happen
and all who will fight, will fight.
Those who can see, can act
and those who cannot, need guidance.
The love is everywhere, if only you would see it
The love bursts from within
You are part of the Earth, child
You are part of the Earth.
- The lady of the forest

The ice will melt to the clear of the water
Let it do so

Sink

Be sure to test the ground before you jump a fence,
and always remember the way back to whence you came.
Jump unprepared and you may just sink,
and as you sink in the unknown territory of the other side
you can only hope that someone will arrive to save you.

Mother Earth

We drill into the earth surface and take everything we see of value.
We take anything that is shiny, anything that burns.
We steal the oil that is her blood and we abuse it, and in abusing it we are abusing her.
Mother Earth is not happy with us at all, and I don't blame her in the least.
Dear Humanity, Pull your head in. Now.

Feed One

If you can't feed a Hundred people, just feed one.
- Mother Teresa

Blind

We are blind to what we have
forever reaching for the broken and unattainable

Discontent

Discontentment and jealousy are the downward spirals of humanity.
This thing that we call humanity seems to settle for nothing less than "the best"
The best of what? Of furniture? Of houses? Of clothing?
FOR WHAT?!
To be better than your fellow man?
If you are so keen to be better, SIR, then open your eyes and look around.
You look into the eyes of the broken hearted and tell them you do not care
You look into the eyes of the starving child and tell them you will not share
You look into the eyes of the injured and leave them in their pain
And you don't care for those about you, as long as it's for your own gain.
Look into the eyes of your maker and see all of your cruel, loveless, corrupt and selfish choices staring back at you
We are not put on this planet for money or fashion or Power
We are put on this planet to Love
I look at you and I see only greed.
I see no love.
Where is the love in this cavity you call your heart?
Well let me tell you, it isn't in your wallet.
It isn't in the Rubies.
It isn't in the gold or the silver or the 'riches'.
It isn't in that plasma screen TV
And it will never be in any store.
Love is found in the actions of others, actions of pure and kind intent,
Actions that are taken not for the benefit of oneself.
The world we live in is selfish with discontent.
If only people would learn to be selfless then, perhaps, we could achieve the love and harmony we so seek.

weak

Please don't twist the words I say
please don't create what you're not sure is there
see in the words what you can see I actually mean
so simple as a question and I can try to make it clear
I do not think in words
so my thoughts are hard to speak
please don't make my words sound cruel
it leaves me feeling weak

Heart

The heart wants what the heart wants,

it's not something we can argue with

See me

Perhaps I am too introspective

And maybe I do think too much.

Maybe I should do things with people more often

And perhaps I should 'put myself out there'

But you don’t know loneliness until you’ve felt it in a crowd

And you don’t know abandonment until someone can look into your eyes and walk away.

I am misunderstood and I am introspective

So I spend my time alone.

It doesn’t make me a loser

It doesn’t mean I don't like you

And it doesn’t mean I don’t want to be social

All that it means is that I am alone

And that you don’t see me

Happy

'Tis I who sees you in daylight

'Tis I who sees you at night

'Tis I who watches you wounded

'Tis I who holds you tight

For all that we have is between us

And all that we had is behind

But all we will have is beyond us

It is you I am happy to find

Stranger

I am a stranger in this land of humans
Forever left to my own mind, to my own eyes.
I stand on the outside of this land of humans, as if they were ocean and I could not swim.
Far in the distance, beyond the visible sea, there may be others like me
Other little islands, lost in isolation.
But with no boat I am doomed to forever sit upon my own.
I am alone, but perhaps someone else has a boat