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I'm going to pin this as well

My protest song... Well... lyric

A lyric from my collection. My 100 lyrics is almost complete and set to release 10 lyrics every month until December, starting March! This has been a real test for me, but an overall awesome experience thus far. For the meantime, here's a new one! Check it out!

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Sharing my latest post. Enjoy!

Where will we go... Where will we go once timer runs out in a sprint?

Been a long time, but taking a break from my writing journey to post this. Thought you all should know.

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A Chorus to a lyric I wrote; titled - Volute

So let me fall in the spiral, slow
Where every version of me lets go
I’m a broken compass, still pretend
That twisted paths can somehow bend
A blinded hope I strain to see
A destiny shaped like a volute in me

Finally restructured it.... until I want to tweak it... again...

Anywho! Here's the chorus of Checkmate. 2.0.

So I'll just keep
My head down now
As you take me
And all my crowns
This clock is breaking down
Check, en prise my weakness
You checkmate me,
While I fall to pieces

#vss365 #poetry

(Chorus to my song Fading Light)

Your straitjacket love
Breaks me, chokes me
Bleeds me til empty of
All the love I have
Yet never enough
Now you'll see... (you'll see)
Me in fading light

#vss365 #poetry

(Chorus to my song, break away)

Burning out under black hole skies
Screaming truths off tangled lies
We’ll run tonight, the stars as guides
We’re never lost, just terrorized
On burning nights, we find our place
With scars to prove, we run this race
In midnight rains, we break away
#vss365 #poetry

When it began... Entry #12: Protest Song #2 (Audio Included, watch volume)

#noking ##vss365

Apologies for reposting. Had to fix a couple things. Really need a edit feature.

Anyway, with current events occurring, now more than ever does this lyric write feel to be reposted from my When it began. More to come, so stay tuned.
#vss365

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Cheap talk like pennygum
Rebrand the same old sun
As brand mornings and
New ways of exploring
The vast amount of ways
We'll run this hamster wheel
And distract ourselves enough
To make all talk worthless spew
For costs are rising and new tolls being set
Pay in blood, for the cost is
Life
#vss365

Love her work

A sea of red drying
Amist palpable tears
A heatwave crying
Mists of raging fears
Know as the crimson dawns
The darkness creeps behind
Slow burn of things to come
Pouring out all of my gasoline
To burn brighter than thousand suns
Igniting the night for all to see
A pond of scarlet meditations
#vss365

(Chorus I wrote yesterday)

So what is this life — a lie or a flame?
A circle of grief we dance all the same.
A whisper, a scream, a love, or a war,
We reach for the sky, then beg for the floor.
This life pulls the thread till we come undone —
Still chasing the dawn, still fearing the sun
#vss365

Blister hot on iron throne
As the fires grow closer
Boiled deep into the bone
While thirsting for water
Quenched by the blood, sweat, and tears of others
Yet sleepless in the desert
Seeking another oasis
To gather and then devour
As we count down
Our restless hour
#vss365 #poetry #brainspill

I died that night
Thrusted words
A cannonball burst
Desecrated my temple
Torn down my gardens
And ravaged my world
Ruptured my capacity
To ever hold love the same
Unaligned mind broken
Snapped reality in wake
Floating through life
Active on command
Scared to live
Wish to connect
Just can't
#vss365

Tired
Of wading waters
That dragged me down
Quiet
And set the scene again
In gentle words that carve deep
Yet you refuse
To fathom
How I truly feel
In my chasm
Alone in the desert
A fever dream recall
I know I'm hot collar
Under the pressure
And I
Am slowly fading
As my
Emotions crystalize
#vss365

Tear down
My graven visage
Run now
To a new mirage
Knowing
That I've been long gone
Clear the table for jigsaw
Puzzling aftermath I saw
A journey of new beginning
Turning to page thirteen
Where I could feel the fall
Now recollecting in recall
As I'm careening to the ground
#vss365 #poetry

Hammer me down
Nail me to my baren crosses
Dragging me down
To fathoms below my losses
I want to breathe in new life
Put aside weaponized strife
That draws me in
Tell me that you cares
Sell me all your wares
Blind me with your taste
Give me your empty fate
In molotov colored waste
#vss365

In your pool of echoed eyes
Where I'm drowned in sound
Swimming to the shoreline
To the moment we are bound
Yet you refuse
To send your branched olive
And I side step
Any recall of offered silence
Tear me to pieces
Scatter me across
Let me fall around
Like iridescent snow
From on high
#vss365

I'm a cauterized ghost
Sealed in by the magic
That froze time to host
An end line that's inside it
A purposed mind
Given keen desire
A studded heart
Binding me again
In view, of the devestation
Prelude of gold bright fall
Stuck on rewinding again
Of moments that I stood tall
In lonely cities
#vss365

Hanging onto the rafters
Of all my constant fears
Pendulum swing matters
Go between all my years
As my regrets play on repeat
Spilling my guts out from the bottle
Feeling my soul is leaving me
Drained from the stacks I've cottled
Forsaken in the light
Dancing in your dark
Eclipsed Eyes
#vss365

Life's a burden
We fight so hard for
Dragging in the mud
Drowned in the flood
Drained within
Submerged without
Brands rebranded
Of all these mortal sins
Where agony in morals
In ethical stifled breaths
A hope for slumber
Sedated in rest
Only to wake
Forgotten it all
#vss365 #poetry #brainspill

Corpses of Earth
With every decaying step
A trail of rot and pestilence
Left in staggered paces
To spread like spores
And devour the landscape
Until there's nothing more
Only the remenates of life
Haunted by unsalted nights
By the ghosts of earth
#vss365 #poetry

Silence is calling me home
To finally end it all
Pushing pass all I've known
And losing it in the fall
Time never waits for a start
Picked up what breaks apart
Only to stumble into a crawl
As we burn to ashes
In bright, fiery effigies
As martyrs take lashes
For a lucidity in jaggies
#vss365

You are a voice
To my reckoning
A fresh foundation
For burial grounds
Your give and take
With a timely craft
Only pulled levers
In reverse pattern
Silence in still motion
Vaulting our emotions
As we go ever deeper
In vast ocean believers
To find a god in a show
And a life not your own
#vss365

I'm welded to my own cage
Where everything remains the same
Only seasons seem to change
Hope to wake up from my long stay
And one day, seize my day

When I'm better and finally stand tall,
Say I'll face all my problems
Knowing when I'll begin at the fall,
But I'll spread my wings if I got'em
#vss365

I've tasted tainted treasures
From caustic dripping sulfer
Smothered in my awakening

Tunnel sight, now acquired,
Keeping hell from my desires
While daydreaming Valhalla

Caught in the wonder of it all
In tremor resounded starfall
On dreamscape crude ruins
Knowing forever has an end
#vss365 #poetry

Words I use will not paint
Over lines that I've drawn
Or color in all of my flaws
If who I am today fades in morning's glance
Will I become the victim to my circumstance
A casualty to incompetence
Prisoner of brokered defiance
Free in body,
Slaved in soul
Privileged Embody
Shackled in droves
#vss365

I can feel my shuddered bones quaking
To every moment having a do or don't feel
I can hear as my granite heart's breaking
As I fall to pieces, a breath of dust appeals
I can taste bitter tones in sleepless waking
As I see now that nightmares become real
A blissful agony
Anguished in joy
#vss365

As silence falls from grace
I'll understand it from thinking
I'll remember you from knowing
I'll remind myself when deciding
That all words fall like meteors
Art in talk, yet show your moves
To paint tapestries of delusions
Of the painted green pastures
In servile distain
Of the other side
#vss365