New mask

Usher in the new year.
Don a new mask
Realize the lies of your life
Reanalyze the next task

This mask
This disguise
Deceive this troubled world
Pull the wool down over their eyes

Fit the mold
But never conform
Father strength around you
Awaken the storm

Lightning will crash
And the fires will burn
Floods will rise
The blood still churn

So in this next moment,
Next day and year.
My mask will be worn
A mask to fear

Whispering voice

A whispered thought
To the grave I must keep
Hearts worn on sleeves
Cause grown men to weep
So I'll hide it away
in the recesses of the void
Where none can approach
Piercing gazes to avoid
Living is to lie
Lying is to live
Layer upon layer of defense
A castle built in tyrannical rage
Guarding the dragon's chest
A treasure, knowledge bade
In his tomb, forever laid

Together

It's the Red and the Blue
A deep purple, Royalty's hue
The wolf led as a loyal soul
A tiger, seeking power and control
The black of the yin
and white of the yang
A balance within like
I want to obtain
A lover,
A fighter,
A lifter,
A writer,
Seeking the crown
Both desire it
Together they're the heir
Heir to earth's throne
Together they must inherit
They can't do it alone.

My shadow, My curse

Who is this man I see
Staring so eerily back at me
He is the ghost
The image of my nightmare

You're nothing but a shadow
A reflection, my rival
It's a race against time
Who will win
Who will be the king,
and who will be the horse.

Why can't I hide from you
Why won't you hide from me
I don these masks to run away,
and yet, you're still there,
ever staring at me

I see you
I hate you
Try as I try
I can't pass you
You stay right there with me
Staring with those cold dead eyes
Those eyes I desperately despise
Leave
Vanish
You're all I must banish
For without you,
There'd be nothing in my way,
Nothing to stop my progress
Day after day.

You will die
and with you my pain
My doubts, my shame
You are the embodiment of regret
My insecurity and fear
Rise I will,
Don my armor I shall
and Strike you at the core,
Until your blood has spattered the floor.

In that moment, all will be silent
The calm before the storm

How to Rise

Why is it I feel this way
This need to belong
To be a part of this troubled time,
this darkened world

Where good is seen as evil
and Evil is good.
Higher powers seeking control
our attention chained to the devices in our pockets
Slowly sapping our ability to think freely
To have an imagination is but a rarity
To conform is now a commonality
To be one with the group,
rather than speaking out as a lone voice
Freedom to think
as all but been taken away,
by the voices who shout tolerance,
but our intolerable to an opposing idea
The hypocrites simply multiple,
while the sincere dwindle.

There is a darkness rising
Creeping just out of view
Tainting each and every mind
Darkening their hearts
Their vision is now blind
Link upon link
Chains strengthen their hold
Holding us down
Pulling us down
How to escape.
How to break these chains.
How to rise

No turning back

My days are numbered
Eventually they'll end
There's no turning back
It's time I can't bend
Each choice I've made
I can't reverse
I must live in their consequence
I must die by their curse
The trust I have given
Returned nothing but lies
Luring me To false security
Of which I despise
There's no hope in moving on
No chance in going bacK
The world keeps spinning onward
A life is a mere speck by time's attack

Crimson

Crimson vision
A vengeance unseen
Born from clear reason
Clarity, obscene
This anger
This hate
A lust for power
A desire to create
Ashes must fall
In darkness all must burn
People too often forget
Humanity yet again must learn
There's a peace
Wrought thru fear
Fear of Annihilation
Priorities become clear
This vision, and goal
Built upon ash and bone
I'll ride the crimson tide
To the stalwart throne