The Game
No Other Choice but to Play Hard, the Goal is to Always be Equally Parred The Dream is to have a Comfortable Life, Safe and Warm But Reality Strikes when the Neighbor’s White Picket Fences turn to Windows Iron Barred And an Imprisoned Home Becomes the Norm Actuality Surfaces as Survival is Made into a … Continue reading
Lost Self
It Holds You Down Its Grip Unbreakable It Glues You to the Ground, No Escaping This Town Like Hardened Cement, Your Stance is Unshakable The Epitome of a Rotten Core From the Inside Out Your Individuality Exists No More And You’ve Realized You’re a Sellout Internally Hollow, But Outwardly Tanned The Blonde in Your Hair … Continue reading
Seeking Meaning
No Purpose, No Meaning, No Difference Boredom, Monotony— A Feminine Mystique Conformity and Convention Make for an Unpleasing Existence All Present Inside these Suburban Walls, Searching for Something Unique But What the Mind Can Create Has No Extent It Allows the Incorporation of Thrill and Exhilaration For With this there is Room to Invent Because … Continue reading
Boundaries Lost
A City Infested with Blood, Death, and Gore With Knowledge Lacking and Chaos Growing Violence Makes up East L.A.’s Decor On the Brink of Entropy, Fear Begins Flowing Where Only Poverty Exists and thus fills the Streets Where Congestion Rises with the Sun A New Day is Merely Made of Malicious Meets Usually Greeted … Continue reading
Disappear Here
From the Cold I Came in a Straight Line Glamour, Fame, and Beauty are Perceived To Me, It was Revealed—The HOLLYWOOD Sign By the Boulevard Sunset, I was Received A Place Immune to Convention Intoxicated by the City’s Charm Suddenly Exposed to a Captivating Deception Someone Pull the Fire Alarm Immersed in a World of … Continue reading
A Sonnet for E.K.
Life Untimely Taken His Bud Barely in Bloom This plan must be Mistaken For he was Stolen away far too Soon How we long to Wake from this Nightmare So as to Escape from the Pain To this Anguish, there is no Compare The Suffocation this Grief is causing is Impossible to Abstain The Intensity … Continue reading
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