To you.

I saw a road diverge one day
And then it split, as if to say
You take one path and he'll take his
And never the two shall meet.

Twinkle, twinkle
Distant star
Should I care
'Bout what you are?
Or should I just accept your light
And let my way be lit?

Star light,
Star bright,
No stars do I see tonight
Though I know they're in the sky
I don't glance up, I don't ask why
I pretend as if the light's "just there"
And let it light my way.

Is it best to forge ahead?
Get somewhere before you're dead?
Or should you just stare into space
To try and see yourself?

Ignorance is some strange bliss.
Tastes sour, til you've tasted truth
Then you wanna go back again
And drink your days away.

Well, I'm an Indian giver.
Done gave my ignorance away,
Traded for a scroll and soul.
Well, I think I rather like the soul
But you can have that smelly scroll
Give me back my prison walls
I want to live again.

So you're the Destroyer.
You're the one who searches for the point
That makes a man undone.
And, I guess, I'm the Defender.
The one that protects the point
To keep mankind alive.

I admire you.
Your hunger
Your thirst
Your desire to know
Despite the cost of knowing.
Hell I love you.

Yet I wish you be destroyed
Your steel words dulled, a-plombs deployed
I want you to exhaust your waves
Upon my stalwart wall.

I want to hear your scream be mine
Expel our forces, disentwine
Our writhing souls then reunite
Again we clash, again we fight
Until our passions fail and flee
(I let you go, you release me)
And finally we both are free
To fight another day.

You see, son, the difference 'tween you and me
Is that I'm the one who kills outlaws,
And you're the impoverished prince of thieves
Who wants to feed the world.

I know times is tough,
But, frankly,
I got myself a town to protect.
Simple folk, ain't doing no harm to nobody.
We don't want no trouble.
We ain't got much, but what we got's ours
And it's enough.

Now, I know you got problems.
I got em too.
Fact is, you could settle down
Raise yourself a prairie town
Instead-a razing ours.
But no, you gotta start trouble
You gotta get up and go
Swinging, like a gallows gone south,
Cause you ain't see'n no point in nothing else
'Cept maybe laying down to die.

So get yourself outta these here parts.
Maybe in a coupla years
You'll come around
Again.

The Lord is my sheperd,
I shall not bbaaa
Baaaaaa
BBBAAAA BLACK SHEEP IN GOD'S CLOTHING
I swear to Christ, you'll pay to pray
Or fuck
You'll pay to fry.

Forgive us,
We know not what we do
Know not why some people cry
Instead of, peace by peace,
Smiling their lives away.

If I could only cool your rage
Or find a way out of this cage
Without crashing along the way
Things work.
I only want to soothe your brow
Leech some heat
But even now
I can only hope
And pray
That, perhaps, some distant day
You'll see that there's a gentle ray,
A hand held out

To you.

For Dad.

Daddy dearest,
Do you love me?
Won't you let it show?
Won't you stop, be just one man
One man that I can know?
One man that I could hate
Or love
Or fear
Or forget about the times when words were said that may have produced assertions of an erroneous nature. These were all discrepancies of reality, tears of truth torn from webs of lie back down to sleep, the sun'll come up tomorrow, and you're always

Growing up, I always wondered whether others were wrong. Or rather, I wondered whether I was too smart or they simply did not understand the world was made for me.

Daddy dearest:
Do you love me?
Note: I have the answer key. Telling the truth or other dishonest practices will be futile.
All I ever wanted
Was to be
A great man

With a bulging belly, waddling down the aisles of your old unlucky home.
Fat and old
Still so bold
As to pick a fight
And never let you win.
No team sports played under this thundrous dome.

I love you, you fucking idiot
You stupid, arrogant piece of
Diamond in a sea of oil
The One Who's Different
Because you're the man I was meant to be.
Honest.

I love her, I really do
Always will
That's why I yell
Cause hugs are cliched
That's why I hypocricize
Because a man can't criticize
The choices he's made.
Can't change the path
He blazes as he goes.

Daddy dearest,
Do you hear me?
Do you hear anyone?
Or is the sound of silence
Only broken
By the musings of a mind
Made murky with mediocrity
Of a kind divine.

I once promised I would not presume
But, father, you're one weight
Three hundred times
Too much.

Daddy dearest:
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me call for help?
God helps those who help themselves, and so I ask for you.
It ain't easy, being mean
Easy, being one sorry sucker of a soul.
I thought I could cheat Charon. Thought I knew the way men thought. Knew the system like the back of a dead man's hand.
That was the plan.
To avoid my destination.
To jump off the boat
And swim to the shores of a Hell
Not meant for the likes of me.

Daddy dearest,
Do you understand?
Do you listen to yourself
And think a mirror might be
The best student you could have?
Or are you afraid of being bested by a boy
That was yourself?

Daddy dearest:
Do you understand?
I need you to help me.
I need you to love me.
And when I say you cannot help me
When I say you cannot love me
I only mean to say
What I have said for years.
You're something special, kid
A real winner
I only wish you know half the things you know
So what I teach you might be news.

Daddy dearest,
Do you like to fight?
Do you like to start a conversation
With a boxer's bell?
Are you looking to prove
That you're the champ
As evidenced by your valiant efforts to champion the cause of the miserable man. The down on his fuck old codger who cannot help but think and so he sits all day at the bottom of the well, waiting for a Lassie he sent searching years ago.

Daddy dearest:
Do you like to fight?
I'm ready, boy.
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Ain't seen or heard or thought of ways
To beat this old tired head.

Daddy dearest,
Do you want to smile?
Do you want to self-improve
Get on the move
Grow a castle in the sky?
Or would you rather live in caves,
Too small for wings to fly?

I'm earning my wings. Day in and day out, trying to flutter, flap, and fly
Up up up
Way in the sky
Way where you could have been
If you hadn't ripped them off
And claimed you still soared high.

Claimed you did it all for us
But not once
No, never
Never think a tear was spent

For Dad.

The moment.

You never expect to hear the bells
That say "We mourn today."
You never expect to get the call
That changes all
Your futures in a scream.
And in that moment, your sane mind thinks
"This is not the life a good man's meant to have.
This is not the death a good girl's meant to keep."
Yet the tears turn to ashes
And you cannot help but think
You loved all wrong.

It has been said
That when mom's dead
I doubt that I will cry.
But now I care
And wouldn't dare
Allow my heart to die.
Allow my heart to sigh, just once,
And turn back into stone.

At approximately, oh, eight hundred hours
The love of your life
Will be a broken dream
Upon a hospital bed
Half a life away.
And as her life fades
Her hand goes limp
You start to wonder
Where you'll go
For shelter now she's gone.

Nothing breaks hearts like broken brakes.

I have a good friend, or two
Or four
Or more
Who, someday, will fade from view
And live a life their own.
And then I have a friend or three
Who'll keep in touch,
Stay close to me
Stand by my side
Until I stand no more.
And when the time comes,
When the number's up,
When we've cheered our last 'huzzah'
You or I
Will cease to fly,
Fall right back in the ground.

Six feet under
Can't hear the thunder
Of crushed souls you've left behind.

Friends, lovers, bring me your years
So I may keep them to myself
And never let them see the light of days
Turned nights
Turned darkness.

No bond can last forever
No person, oh so clever,
Can cheat the tax of time.

No matter how tight I hold you
How long I kiss you
How strong I love you,
I cannot help but think
Eternity's just a day
A moment disguised in life
An instant in drag
Masquerading as forever.
And whether by my hand or God's,
This too shall end
And you, my friend,
Will be a mem'ry
Evermore.

No hands can hold forever.
Whether one lets go
Or the other loses touch
With life itself.
Friends until an end
Or new beginnings.

But as you lie within my arms,
I forget past present future harms
And only think to live
Within

The moment.