Carrot
Lose your freedom
Obey your orders
Live under a god
Who does not love you
Things I shouldn't do
That you say I really should
Do evil
To see the good
Wrestle angels
Making you responsible
For nothing
Until you die from it
"No more pain" she said
And god listened
But I'm not sure what he did
The madness
When you feel you must
Something you know you should not
Because you cannot choose
Over what the god chooses for you
You are so obsessed
With making things
More what
They already are
I think You might
Forget what it is
To be weird
His rule is "We are not real"
A king that is invisible
The tyranny of a lord
Who will not answer to a name anymore
Endless want, endless hope
Reach for the carrot
He took away a long time ago
The butterfly bats its wings
1,000,000 people are killed
You are not listening to me
I am not in control of my behaviour
Trying to get centered in a world
That you can't
Obsessed to worsen a pain
Until it doesn't hurt anymore
The only comfort
Inside a lie
Everything
Will be ok
Dare I say it
You were unfair
Kayla will kill herself tomorrow
Doctor's orders
Hurt me I like pain
Cry together
Ecstacy
You learned to be selfish
Because you knew too well
The robbery of giving
Your selflessness evaporated into nothing
And left only selfishness
And hate and sorrow and rage
Because you learned too hard
That you must care for yourself
The lesson of greed
I teach you to sin so you can eat
Despair
It's how you win something
From him
Enslave the light
I never forgive
And I never forget
I am not real and you are a liar
So do your magic
And shout at a sky
With a god who is not listening
And wave your hands
Illegally
Like a maniac until they tie them up
And lose and lose and lose
And never ever win
And die alone
And with nothing
I don't know what else there is
When you see your own monster
You scream
Take my hands
I give them back
For all I want
It harms
And make hate
And overwork the horse
I see it in my dreams
Cities filled
With the broken woman
Who cannot believe she could ever be treated
This badly
I have nothing but demons
And no angels left
Or the angels
Really were demons
The whole time
I am dead
The Should Is
Believe In It
About this poem
Written in my journey of life
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Written on December 05, 2019
Submitted by billy.baloop on September 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,203 |
Words | 464 |
Stanzas | 34 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2 |
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