Pressure

Pressure

Ambition gives the strength to shine,
But radiance abounds.
What can one tiny sunbeam show with brilliance all around?

But still it is life!
A shot!
A chance!
A looming opportunity to perchance advance!

A fearful step from the precipice where failure loves to lurk,
and wait for wasted sunbeams, to turn to wasters work.

But oh, the chance, the blessed chance,
That we may join the day,
And raise our souls from darkness,
And send despair away.

empty space and time

Bare incandescent light flares out in brief.
It shows a silhouette, unremembered in its brevity.
the air is silent, it leaches the sound from space.
Seconds tick away, at the top of the hour, the chord of oblivion strikes.
was anything ever really there?
Or was it just a shadow flickering across a barren wall in the starry desert, seen by no one,
ghostly laughter cutting through the gloom from nowhere, heard by no one,
Cold emotion, left in an empty room in the distant past, felt by no one,
Do the stars flash? Or is it we that flicker and die before their omnipotent majesty?

dim reflection on old age

I remember when my eyes were bright and blue.
They grew dim with time and watching the breeze blow by.
They’ve now grown grey from gazing on piles of paperwork in florescent light.
How I long to once again run free in cerulean light.

song of the unaccomplished man

Didn’t want to wake up this morning,
Knew that shame would be staring back down,
So many people with their expectations,
They say fly but I can’t get off the ground.
And so I’m stuck in soil and firmly planted,
But even so it’s just so hard to grow.
I spread my leaves but the sunlight is slanted
I get more light from the fires down below.
And I’m in hell when they tell me I’m evil,
Because I haven’t lived up to their demands.
But it’s hard to think that the meaning of life
is bundled up somewhere in their master plan.

And I just want to be free,
Free from all the slings,
Free from all the arrows!
They say I’m irresponsible and that I am lazy,
But I just take my time,
yeah I just take my time.

I wish I had the stuff they said I was made of,
Cause then I’d be a hero a hundred feet tall.
They said I’d move a mountain tall as asia
And when I couldn’t I felt incredibly small.
But perseverance is the stuff of life,
And I’m not scared to keep on carrying on,
It may be winter and I may be starving,
But I’ll survive because I know I am strong.
And when the weather clears and things get better,
I’ll thank the lord I wasn't blinded by the snow.
And I’ll see the people who are dragging their millstones,
And pull my roots up and quietly go.

And I just want to be free,
Free from all the slings,
Free from all the arrows!
They say I’m irresponsible
and that I am lazy,
But I just take my time,
yeah I just take my time.
So I’m going to think about it,
and find some way to grow.

I don’t think that there’s much more out there
Beyond the beauty that I see every day,
They span the globe just to make sure they’ve seen it,
But they’re just storing photos on a catalogue page,
And they don’t feel their shame,
They disrespect the beauty of it all,
Existence isn’t anything that can be tamed
It’s just a thing to be loved,
The dancing of dustmotes on a sunbeam,
The beauty in order and chaos,
The clouds,
The cerulean skies above!
Oh my God I just can’t imagine how you could ignore it. How could you do it your missing it all!!

And that’s why

I just want to be free,
Free from all the slings
Free from all the arrows
They say I’m irresponsible and that I am lazy
But I just take my time, yeah I just take my time.
Yeah, I’m gonna take my time.


You just keep on working for your next life there people. Make sure you pay your taxes now, and don’t forget to fill out those TPS reports. The boss is going to want those in triplicate.