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lese​-​Majesty

by Somnolence

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1.
The light of the crescent moon Reflects on the shadows of days past There is knowledge in the midnight stillness Which speaks of wasted time Minutes become years flown by Each with her own constraints From the material necessities wrought by a capitalist noose To the prison of self-doubt Stoked by society’s negative feedback Has let precious time slip away But to breath deep with the winking stars And catch the rustle of leaves Is to know it is never too late To seize the day by its tail And the night by its horns To strangle that which has robbed so many of their lives Whether the enemy actual or the one internalized To break the isolation of shame, exhaustion, fear and guilt! To embrace each moment and demand that all may do the same
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Back Drop 05:00
Time is wearing down on our body and our minds Find myself dislocated, suspended in the same place throughout all these years Lapse of time Everything in some way or another has blurred together with the same black backdrop We are disgruntled! We are exhausted! We are psychologically unsound! We are ageing too fast! The world is heating up in so many ways Rapidly under pressures, ideas of being, completely displaced Some, so it seems, have just given up While others simply exchange tools for instruments of idle play Either way! Instruments of idle play! Either way! Just instruments of rapid decay! You can’t argue with the tied-up knots in your throat That feeling that some things just aren’t right Like the wind blowing through the streets on such a quiet, vacant night I can feel the silent, morose cries As if belted out a thousand times in unison
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Trying to come up true and pure of heart Ingest what is a stimulus from a paradigm world So often, nearly succeed, every time we must try that much harder Rise up against all odds Poke and prod at our minds, bodies, and hearts All the time yearning for another fresh start Look around this dilapidated environment we call home Poverty, ill-will, and craziness and those that just can’t get enough Gun battles in our back yards Streetwalkers and those under the radar Try to make it in a world brutally hard Tales that have been regurgitated spit up time and time again An allegory, people can’t see out The powers that be see in We are all on the deck of a ship that’s about to sink Let us tread water and catch our last breath Make a final toast of mercury poisons in our water Ill to the last drink
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Anxiety 04:48
Anxiety is an insurmountable weight on my chest With no specific cause other then a city life filled with stress Piles on and on, vile air reaches deep inside my lungs Not sure why I can’t stop running about Can’t bear the thought of being useless, engulfed by an omnipotent model of so-called healthy living Struggle with myself to find and secure an acceptable niche Meanwhile, miserable stoic souls continuously stagger about I know deep inside I want to live a life That is ephemeral and true
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Femicide 04:06

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released November 1, 2010

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