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[heartofbabel]

[ Bloom ]

Sometimes in my mind

I think I’m just to shy to thrive

While this pen can pour its heart

My mouth is kept with no reply

I can’t deny, I want to fly

If I would only spread these wings

Lift off the ground, into the sky

To see what these horizons bring

…

This spark of life, shining so bright

I have hidden in concerns

Anxious thoughts, all I’ve fought

And I still choose not to adjourn

Yet I discern, knowing well

This absurdity to fault

That I would dwell within a hell

Rather than be what I exalt

…

Still invasive, second nature

Doppelgänger, all my doubts

Who am I really, but a stranger

Lost to self, with no account

Light is shining, close the curtains

Cannot let these feeling out

Trapped inside this vaulted-coffin

Yet there is life that seeks to sprout

…

Finding the cracks, pushing forward

Looking to break from this recourse

Hearts been strangled, barely beating

Only hope, is now divorce

Severed ties, these leach of lies

That have been sucking out my soul

Withering binds, it’s now the time

Time to finally let these seeds grow

…

Fear of exposure, slowly fading

Yet still hesitant to bloom

To be shown naked, on display

As I am rising from this tomb

Thoughts of chaos, like a seance

Seeking to keep me in these chains

Yet bonds have weakened in this Eden

And I will never be the same

…

Mind is altered as I falter

Trying to grasp all that has changed

While memories of ancient terrors

They have yet to be estranged

So yet I walk in double standards

Slowly departing from the grave

Tricks in mind, still seem to coax me

That I should just remain a slave

…

But I am saved, despite my toils

Despite the doubts that creep in mind

No longer gaining my attention

No distraction to keep me blind

Look in the mirror, eyes are searching

To find a fault in what I see

Grace resounding, in abundance

Nothing but radiance in me

…

This pen is pouring out its soul

A reflection of the heart

Of the strength that I should carry

To match this magnitude of spark

I know I struggle, being open

Just to manifest the light

And yet my spirit, always hopeful

Chose to bloom within this life

…

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© GaratheDen

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ The Abuse of Tension ]

Emotions have betrayed you

You’ve traded wrong for wrong

Believed that you were powerless

Instead of standing strong

Abandoning identity

You’ve forgot where you belong

Let desperation be your god

And violence be your song

…

Vengeance, unforgiveness

It is eating you alive

As you riot in the streets

Letting hatred be your guide

A mirror of oppression

Becoming what you despise

The bearers of deception

Just as lost as you are blind

…

Seeing nothing but a victim

Being nothing but a slave

Feeling nothing but your hatred

As you dig your shallow grave

For the actions you have taken

They are one in the same

The same evils you lament

Are the ones you now parade

…

Look at all your rage

Look at all your anger

You cast it on the innocent

With no care for the stranger

You act without humanity

Is that really your nature

For when you become a monster

Then you become a danger

…

So riot in the street

Create your great divide

Just beat your chest and cause a mess

And see what it provides

A history of violence

In continual reply

Say farewell to unity

And hello to be denied

…

While the system never waivers

While your masters rest in peace

Wage the war that they are longing

So they can justify their reach

Spread terror throughout the land

So that they view you with unease

And become the dangerous animal

That needs to be policed

…

Where is your peace

Where is your self-control

Where is your dignity

Now’s the time to be composed

For we all tire of this system

And it’s endless need to grow

We’re all enraged at its actions

And you are not alone

…

But when you throw a stone

Aimed in the wrong direction

When you act out in hatred

Without any discretion

Then you’ve served your masters well

Becoming the transgression

To nullify their sins

In the abuse of tension

…

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© GaratheDen

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Marveled ]

The best part of my life

Is that I never needed audience

Didn't need attention

Didn't need approval to gain confidence

Just sitting within silence

No need of an expedience

No pressures from the status quo

To meet their efforts of obedience

…

But it wasn't always easy

Indoctrination ain't a gentle kiss

Doubt would flood my mind

And with doubt it is hard to resist

The berate of second-guessing

Internally held within conflict

But my mind was clear to contemplate

And I wouldn't submit

…

Not an ounce of me is popular

The populations pending

You never know the course of life

Which they will be descending

Yet I guess I never cared much

There's no need to be pretending

So divided from the herd of man

Because I'm unrelenting

…

Walking now, over the graves

Stirring through the ashes

A witness to all of the lives

The sacrificial masses

Ruled through men's religions

Reduced into a ration

Death the counterbalance

To the cult of hatred's passion

…

In my surroundings I like solitude

Repulsed against dramatics

So I never watch the news

Propaganda, fear and panic

I'm so tired of the common man

Who worship a State of havoc

For I'm a; hear no, see no, speak no evil

Hopeful-type romantic

…

Fear never ruled over me

And neither does submission

For when politics rule the world

It becomes void of wisdom

And I don't seek the foolish man

And ask of his permission

And I don't look at the views of man

As anything but religion

…

Plagued throughout the centuries

Despite emancipation

They have cast their hope into a fault

And embraced indoctrination

Always trapped within the box

Populous turned congregation

They are a herd no longer human

Blind to their incarceration

…

Every step towards freedom

Is a movement that leaves them startled

They are so afraid of myth

They have submitted to be marshaled

So dependent on the State

To be ruled and reigned and parceled

That their lives have become vacant

Because of what they fear to marvel

…

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© GaratheDen

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Pop Quiz ]

Alleviate the consequence

Sacrifice a martyr

Hoodwink the populous

To the genocide of honor

A scapegoat holocaust

All in the guise of ardor

Granting your allegiance since

The founding of the fathers

…

Bombs burst to celebrate

Serenade the rockets

Wartime on the mind

Explosions to profit

Round up the casualties

Making your deposits

Cultivate a business plan

Monopolize the markets

…

Castrate the candidate

Crush the opposition

Encapsulate, congregate

Define the definition

Celebrate all the hate

Fooled with prohibition

Emancipate human waste

The starting of tradition

…

Gold fades to masquerades

While paper is abundant

Inflate to subjugate

The system is triumphant

Too late, greet your fate

Ecosystem all redundant

Salivate to lubricate

The cycle of incumbents

…

Flu shot the argonaut

All chemicals and compounds

A heart-stop onslaught

Leaving minds all dumbfound

Ink blot, Camelot

Renaissance and pronouns

Shakespeare untaught

As yonder light does fade now

…

Playgrounds and obstacles

Train children to assassins

Chaos all methodical

Keeping fear a passion

The narrative a farcical

Religion all unfastened

Free-thought antiparticle

Welcome poverty to famine

…

Maintain supply-chain

Rapid prototyping

Alpha sigma mainframe

Composites uninviting

Solo cannot be contained

Escape the endless sightings

While they quantify the domain

To reign in violent guiding

…

Time for your pop-quiz

Answers orchestrated

Minds trapped in boxes

Farewell the innovative

Programmed responses

The keeper of the tainted

The system just a toxin

A legacy of hatred

…

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© GaratheDen

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Fruit ]

All I see is fruit

Some of it is rotten

Hold my breath and fear the scent

It cannot be forgotten

Watching every step

Tantalize the garden

Pit against the roots

Of the hearts all laying hardened

…

Wish I had a green thumb

Release a revelation

Intrenching of the mindset

In need of ventilation

You must break from the foundation

To end the desolation

All the elements are stirring

In a force of speculation

…

So much left to potential

The garden lying flattened

Left to strangle self, and I ask,

“How could this have happened”

The beauty yet surmounted

This desert leaves me saddened

How I long to cultivate

But all of life has been abandoned

…

And the soil, it is barren

That which remains, infertile

Shall I strive against the earth

In hopes of something that’s eternal

All the life that creeps below me

It is nothing but infernal

Chewing through the veins

As though Phantoms of the external

…

Strike against the plains

Yet these wounds are never bleeding

Soaked the life that’s spilt

And offers dust to choke the breathing

Blanketing the tombs

Of a past that’s long retreating

All the toils of the earth

To be consumed in endless weeding

…

Feel the scorching of the sun

As the body tests its limits

Will of mind and soul collapsing

Isn’t all that can inhibit

As the aching and fatigue

Greets a nature that’s insistent

Caught at the edge of madness

Until the wind does lift my spirit

…

Storms off in the horizon

Show of lightning, clash of thunder

A breeze of chill is leading

To embrace me in a shudder

All my hopelessness in effort

Turned in haste into a wonder

Seeing rains approaching

Turning prey, now, into the hunter

…

Flooding my consciousness

Of the seeds that I have planted

What the future holds in sight

Is but a story yet expanded

With deserts all around me

And the view of hope seemed stranded

Here in this valley I’ve found an Eden

That all others have abandoned

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Thin Ice ]

I'm walking on thin ice

Weighing like an anchor

Cracks beneath my feet

This is clear and present danger

The mind says play it caution

Yet I'm hesitant to linger

One false move and I'm abandoned

To the depths of a stranger

…

A struggle in the solitude

Caught and independent

The burden on my back

Leave the sinews unrepentant

An aching in the heart

And the mind is unattended

As these cracks expand the course

And soon supports will be descended

…

Could try to move in haste

But the danger is prevailing

Shuffling my feet

To match the pace the ice is failing

My eyes catch the reflection

And is shocked by the unveiling

Feeling frozen to the nature

Of a person that is ailing

…

Try to calm the mind

Anxiety has risen

You can feel it pierce your heart

Panicked with indecision

Try to move out from the center

And yet gravity is driven

Set to keep you on a course

And hold you in this prison

…

Shallow is my breathing

With calculated action

If I exhaust all my efforts

How can I maintain traction

One step leading the other

Yet divided is their faction

The means of making choice

Both cause and reaction

…

If this ice breaks

Will I be swallowed up in darkness

Will I meet the fate of peril

Of a truth I never harnessed

Can't quite still my breathing

Halt this quiver in a sternness

Friction assailed against me

And I default to being nervous

…

Weighted and dragging

No chance against the tide

Need the ice to hold form

For the moments I'm alive

For the moment I am blind

Finding nothing to confide

The ice still cracks beneath me

And I am running out of time

…

One step and then the other

A slow and steady pace

Water seeping through the cracks now

Makes it hard to feel embraced

Closer to the edge

Widening the space

Nearing my salvation

While the ice is giving way

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Stasis ]

Stasis

The world’s response to fear

How so easily

You let your life be commandeered

Your dreams and your ambitions

All but disappeared

A flock to mindless medias

Corralled and engineered

…

Once seemingly so vibrant

Filled with zest for life

Now cowering and pitiful

With no signs of delight

Panic in pandemic

And such a tragic sight

Identity abandoned

As you quarantine the light

…

No strength amongst your faculties

A product of the hype

You seizure in demeanor

Now, shrieking through your gripes

A feature presentation

Of a puppet of the tripe

A circus in a cycle

Where you’re all but circumscribed

…

A programmed and trained response

Devoted to the doctrine

Domesticated casualty

To every spoken toxin

Conforming to disparity

While leaving truth forgotten

Just to heed to fear, politicized

And viewing it as sovereign

…

The pavers of perdition

Building a religion

Cowards of the heart

Masquerading hope and wisdom

Villains of salvation

All fraught is their tradition

Too blinded by the perils

Fabricated repetitions

…

Cutting off the blood flow

Halting the response

It’s time to break away

But you have formed no renaissance

Shocked within a terror

Contained to a nuance

Peering in the headlights

As you hide within a box

…

Burying the coffin

Funeral in service

Never lived a life

Because your whole life’s been perverted

A corpse that lays in waste

Void of any purpose

Hypochondriac

In an eternal state of nervous

…

For fear, it has seized you

Drawn you to hiatus

Distracted you from everything

Which you should remain gracious

Try to find a spark of life

But it’s been rendered traceless

And without a pulse of courage

You just remain froze in stasis

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ The Glint ]

So much pressure being weighed

And I am trying not to cave

Collapsing to expectations

Of an anti-dream’s display

I try to dig out from this grave

Under roads that have been paved

Hoping for a breakthrough

Just to see the light of day

…

So I may finally get some air

Let my life get its repair

Feel my lungs expanding

As I gain freedom from the snare

For I once was bound, caught in err

Trapped and chained within despair

Held, claustrophobic

Hyperventilating fear

…

Gasping out for a breath

Yet all I tasted was regret

Drowning in the waters

As emotions drew its depths

All gravity held in check

I was suspended and beset

That I scarcely had a will to live

And it drew me to forget

…

How easily my eyes were blind

How effortless, betrayed the mind

To show me all alone

As though my heart could be confined

And I wonder now, what point in time

Was I convinced to be defined

By fear, maliciously in course

To a submission, so aligned

…

Wandering, held in contempt

Baring shame at my expense

Both judge and jury’s scornful eyes

On I, the one suspect

Justice served to no exempt

This guilty verdict I accept

Standing at the gallows

With the noose around my neck

…

How easily, is that first step

When mind is clouded, thoughts in theft

To feel that condemnation

Is to purposefully arrest

To steal your soul and leave you stressed

Identity all but oppressed

Lies, a labyrinth’s endless weaving

To hold you lost and dispossessed

…

I’ve once dwelled in the dark of times

I’ve once been fooled by tricks of mind

Losing sight of life itself

Seeing no vital signs

And though it burdened great decline

And once held me to feel confined

It had no strength against the one

Who I was in truth, realized

…

For it only took a glint of light

A flash or flicker shown to sight

To capture the attention

Of the eyes lost in the night

For brilliance, will it seem so bright

That pupils dare not bare the white

Piercing through the veil

So that the heart may know delight

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ The Lion ]

They’ve called me the lion

Ever since my birth

The world in amazement

The eyes that all observe

Want to hear my strength of voice

Lion gonna purr

Until I bite your head off

Consider dinner served

…

King of the jungle

Prowler of the plains

Gazelle like inspirations

And I’m feasting through the day

Blood all over my face

Look at the parade

Pride, a pack of lyrics

What hyenas gonna say

…

Sitting in the sun

Basking in the light

Heat upon my face

Ready for a fight

Saving all my strength

Saving all my might

Gonna crush your bones

With these jaws of life

…

Ladies all around me

Ready for the kill

Gonna take a shower

In the blood they spill

Going to devour

It’s the power of the will

Then we’ll play in the display

To capitalize the thrill

…

Everything I see

Everything I own

Wherever I sit

I’m calling it my throne

Power in the presence

Yeah, I can’t be overthrown

Starting to get hungry

And I do not eat alone

…

Better be silent

Better be discrete

Better watch your step

Where you place your feet

Don’t draw our attention

A mistake you won’t repeat

I’m sure you have a life

But it will serve just well as meat

…

Wherever I roam

No one’s gonna stop me

Don’t get in my way

Or I’ll give you an autopsy

Mane so full

Never looking sloppy

The feminine know

Cannot get them off me

…

King of the jungle

Greatest carnivore

Mighty in all efforts

You know I’m gonna roar

People all around me

Amaze and adore

Knowing I’m majestic

And always wanting more

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Life Lesson ]

Life lesson

101

Nobody will hurt you more

Than someone you love

We focus on enemies

While guarding our heart

Yet it’s the closest people

Who can tear it apart

…

But I say, love extravagant

Let down all your guards

Hold your head high

And embrace all the scars

Love is the answer

Don’t focus on pain

Love, just in spite

Of all of past shame

…

It’s become far too easy

For us to discard

Forming our factions

And having no regard

Making life into a fiction

The illusions of the author

Letting truth fade away

To the deceit that were offered

…

We call ourself victim

Call others the enemy

Create a facade

That disfigures identity

And as time goes by

Part of you becomes lost

Buried so deep inside

That it just leaves you in want

…

See, treating life like material

So easy to replace

Walking through relationships

All piling like waste

It just keeps you in pain

As more of you breaks

And the whole world can see it

But they’re conditioned to take

…

It is time to ponder life

Let our minds be unfurled

And quit letting pain

Be the center of your world

Find value in others

Quit waging these wars

Let the empire cease

So that love can restore

…

Because all life has purpose

Yet all are disguised

Because we all know the same hurt

And have believed the same lies

So don’t let it be a guide

Time to open your heart

Because love’s the only thing

That will not tear it apart

…

Life lesson

101

Nothing can save the world

Greater than love

And it starts with an action

Without need of reply

And until you learn to love

You’re never truly alive

…

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© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Illusions ]

Not afraid of strife, war

Bloodshed, destruction

I was raised with this in my life

It is the source of my corruption

I've seen flags, wave

The praises of this nation

As bombs blast across the land

And third worlds were degraded

…

Not afraid of guns, death

Terror, segregation

It was preached from the pedestal

And met with ovations

One nation, under

The authority of integration

Indoctrinating the minds

Of every single generation

…

But yet, still

They instruct me to be fearful

Too afraid to rule my life

And in a system to be cheerful

Too afraid to become native

Lest the trail I lead comes tearful

They don't want me to question

And of that I get an earful

…

But every single year, full

Of war and endless spending

Berating and inflating

All the wealth I've earned, descending

I'm pretending life is great

We're all so fake and condescending

Got a mask over my face

While underneath I'm comprehending

…

That the rule I know's a monster

Claustrophobic as it conquers

Given power from the people

Who were birthed to be the sponsors

Waste their whole life with no honor

For the mindless never ponder

They just sing their petty anthems

As their patronage is conjured

…

A smoke-screen, daydream

Living in illusion

That the State is very great

Indoctrinated and deluded

No life to be uprooted

Suffocating and polluted

The existence of the State

Is just death in conclusion

…

And like sheep you follow

Marching to the slaughter

Submitting to a system

That wants to slay you on the altar

A bloodshed culture

Preying like the vultures

It is here you lift you praise

Build your monuments and sculptures

…

Faltered

You have failed to remain human

Embraced the cult of corruption

And committed life to ruin

No hopes of every straying

From the State, no revolution

For you're enraptured in deception

Completely lost in the illusions

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Lens ]

I see you, and seeing you

I bring you into being

Creation in acknowledgment

The whole world, it is beaming

Awaken from distraction

All the factions unredeeming

Life is so extravagant

Can you not see that it is teeming

…

Beauty all encompassing

Every cell and atom

Microscopic observation

In an awe I cannot fathom

The grace to case this place

Palpitations set to spasm

A heart that skips the beat

In endless enthusiasm

…

So thankful for existence

Beyond our understanding

All logic stays confounded

To this mystery enchanting

Appreciate it my whole life

So captured by its romancing

I take a breath to celebrate

And feel my lungs expanding

…

Consciously determined

Intentionally aware

Deliberate in my actions

With premeditated care

Calculated measures

Eager just to share

That life is so fantastic

Beyond any faults or fears

…

Merely to have an open eye

It does not mean you see

So much in life can pass you by

And that’s a tragedy

To live your life within a veil

Blinded from the sea

Of the life that flows around you

Dwelling in shadows of debris

…

Most of the world has a perspective

That is negatively cast

Seeing most life without value

And subjected to their wrath

That they make the world a wasteland

In their daily treaded paths

With such dreaded consequences

Of the compassions which they lack

…

It first and foremost must be

The heart that draws the sight

The lens of love to filter

The value into a life

Then the mind must be opened

Beyond doctored plight

To see beyond tradition

Beyond offense, to what is right

…

Then I see you, and seeing you

There is brought about inception

Creation and existence

And value and connection

Breaking passed the boundaries

Of the past of our deceptions

Where all life can radiate

To a mirror of reflection

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Execution ]

Putting my neck out on the line

Underneath the guillotine

Execution exhibition

Welcoming hostilities

Crowded, calloused audience

Applauding the facilities

Knock-on-wood, the lever flung

To greet responsibilities

…

Tied up, at the stake

Smoke-break, I’ve had enough

Bindings, feel the sting

Blood-flow, cut off at the cuff

Heating, at my feet

Enemies, all huff and puff

Wicker-man, now I stand

Igniting to be more abrupt

…

Back against the wall

Blindfolded to the firing squad

Lies and accusations

Cocked and readied in their espionage

Waiting for the cannonballs

Weary to how they’ll respond

Ready, aim, fire…

Moment’s volley cease to rattle on

…

Lethal this injection

Coursing through my veins

With the chains of hostility

Going through growing pains

Got an audience watching me

Convulsing in my shame

Paralyzed with poison eyes

That I just cannot claim

…

Got me situated

Made this chair into a bond

Didn’t have a final word

All set to turn the power on

Now I know we all know Edison

But Tesla was beyond

I’m about to feel the power

Now I’ll go say hello to God

…

Everyone has got a stone

Now stretching out their arms

Hiding all their sins

While they justify my harm

Jumping to their judgements

Sounding the alarm

Watch you cast the first stone

As I’m turning on the charm

…

Time to turn the valve

Hear the hissing of the gas

Lefty-loosey, righty-tighty

And I’m trying not to gasp

Eyes sting, nose bleeding

Body seizing at the clasp

Trying to hold my vomit in

As I am a man of class

…

They say they want to hang me

But they won’t use the noose

Instead, they’ve got some nails

Set to hammering them through

But what am I to do

Know, this isn’t what I’d choose

Executions all around me

There are so many ways to lose

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Apart ]

I know that I’m my truest

As an individual

Yet society tends to flock

Towards congregations

They like to build things together

Like they all are integral

Until eventually they call themselves

A nation

…

Now almost every time

These actions seem so lofty

Their ideas filled

With righteousness and pride

Yet far too often things

Tend to turn too costly

When they start to fail

In seeing eye to eye

…

Of my personal account

I hate the nation

Where this Religion tends

To seep into the mind

For where all eyes are made

To see only through doctrine

That is where all eyes

Lose vision to the blind

…

The nations, they build

Monuments and altars

Then alter their history

To grace their point of view

Pledging allegiance

To their symbols to never falter

And then they utilize

These symbols in their rule

…

Now I have far stepped

Out of box and out of context

To be in contrast and example

Of a completely different life

And I know that act has caused

In some to anguish

As though a jeopardy to faith

That we should always live in strife

…

This absurdity is a plague

That never falters

A mental inhibition

Set to blotting out the sun

So those in shadow will find

Comfort in the darkness

As they reign in foolishness

Seeking to mitigate the son

…

For God is either evil

In this empire so eminent

Or God is only peaceful

In an everlasting covenant

What is time-tested

These waging wars or love in testament?

Salvation on the cross

Or the holocausts of government?

…

The crowd is always wrong

Casting their stones and void of heart

Professing revolutions

While only ever showing throne

Sacrificing of the innocent

And that’s why I walk apart

Outside of this Religion

That holds no power to atone

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ The Pirates’ Tale of Sorrow ]

Sorrow the pirate

Twas about to walk,

The mighty wooden plank

With shackled wrists

And legs the same,

To ensure that Sorrow sank

…

The journey short

Though long in stride,

Consumed the light of day

As step by step

His feet did walk,

To death, Sorrow made way

…

"Ah, faster now

You swine of man,

You see away the sun."

"For when it goes,

Then so shall you.

Your life, this day, be done."

…

Then Sorrow turned,

To face the man

Belching out words aloud

Then veered his eyes

Up to the sky

And let silence weigh the crowd

…

The clouds did part

And shown the sun

The heat did sweat his brow

Then cool breeze blew

Against his skin

And whistled through the prow

…

A moments rest

Relaxing breath

Time seemed to disappear

With enemies

Sentencing death

His ship, they commandeer

…

Then memories

From all his life

Did flash before his eyes

Remembering

Both good and bad

The crowd spoke out, chastised

…

"Speak now yar words

Soon lifeless one,

Plead mighty, to the gods."

Sorrow stayed still

His mouth not move,

He stand weighing the odds

…

The sun still crept

To hiding place,

Devoured by the ocean

"Lets shoot him first

Help weigh him down!"

One man started, commotion

…

A settled cheer

All with, agreed

Bullet, to be embed

Muskets loaded

Then aimed up north

Explosions marked for head

…

The powder packed

And fuses lit

Sorrow, a choice, must make

Death by the sea

Or from the gun

Which would a hero take

…

His chains were tight

To strong to free

If jump, he'd surely drown

While bullets burn

Destroy the flesh

A corpse, not fit a crown

…

The sun slipped down

Then came a shot

Bullet escaping gun

And Sorrow dove

Into the sea

Action, not be undone

…

Unknown whether

The bullet struck

Sorrow still lost his life

And left behind

A story sung

In duet, with the fife

…

Though stories told

To entertain

Are far misunderstood

For Sorrow found

Treasure so great

No pirate ever would

…

On life, he held

So desperately

Until sea bottom reached

His eyes witnessed

A marveled site

Such hoard, never was preached

…

And so it's said

Throughout the world

In pirates' tales of old

Find Sorrow bound

And set him free

Then you shall find the gold

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ Bastard ]

Born out of wedlock

Just another bastard

Just like Jesus Christ

And I'm feeling all enraptured

Got tired of the pastors

Preaching out disaster

Twisting out the sermons

Of a mutilated master

…

I heard it from the pulpit

Jesus was a culprit

Flipping over tables

And just pouring out His fullness

Water into wine

Turned the party to the fullest

Offending everyone

As He'd call them on their bullshit

…

Living by a doctrine

Feeling all forgotten

Then Jesus drops a line

To make the claim that you are sovereign

Riling up the squadrons

Refused to play it caution

Never hesitating

‘Cause He knew He was the Option

…

Don't take it all for granted

Nails have pierced his hands, man

Evil running wild

While religion leaves you stranded

It's time to take a standing

Revolt against the branding

As these wounds callous over

I'll no longer be commanded

…

They treat you like an offering

Like you were just their livestock

Had to pay the bills

So they needed money, tick tock

Put you on the altar

Cause the greedy need their price shock

Weird to see a church

Turned from temple into dive shop

…

Left them with the mice drops

Leper coalition

Through the binding and the reigns

Still couldn't steer me to perdition

Granted, it was hell

But I knew it weren't my mission

So I got out of the furnace

And I'm living just forgiven

…

A pretty simple concept

No need to script a doctrine

Just living out my life

No more hauling around the coffin

I think about it often

Simply being sovereign

It's a pill that's hard to swallow

But it beats being forgotten

…

Take it with a grain of salt

Seasoning the Gospel

There was a man named Jesus

And he was treated awful

Turned the other cheek instead

Of raising a debacle

As he chose to walk in love

As the unprecedented model

…

© HeartOfBabel

[heartofbabel]

[ When The Light Goes Out ]

When the light goes out

The pupil gets bigger

Window to the soul

Celestial vigor

Blinking in the void

Eyes in the abyss

Left in the darkness

When vision is eclipsed

...

Past-life fading

When the light goes out

World disappears

Existence in a doubt

Eyes once searching

Losing all account

Till the mind paints a picture

For it cannot do without

...

Trying to remember

Cannot quite recall

When the light goes out

You lose all your resolve

World disfigured

In a moment of withdrawal

Memory’s creation

Leaving you appalled

...

Who am I really

What am I about

Am I still beautiful

When the light goes out

Is there a place for me

A place that I’m allowed

When the world disappears

And no one is around

...

Now I’m cast in fear

But not of the darkness

Identity retracing

No visible, to harness

When the light goes out

Why do I feel heartless

Abandoned to the soul

Am I nothing but a carcass

...

Mind over matter

Yet both of them in doubt

Am I a god of nothing

Foolishly devout

Worshiping with fervor

When the light goes out

Crafting a salvation

As I cannot live without

...

Buried in a tomb

Underneath the earth

Trapped within a womb

Dying to be birthed

[ ˈFək ], I’m going crazy

None of this occurred

When the light goes out

How then can I observe

...

Identity in question

Meaning, in a drought

No one here to save me

Enlightened, no amount

Meditate oblivion

The hell I would allow

I just, really miss love

When the light goes out

...

© HeartOfBabel