Couple Poems I wrote.

[Dano]

One of these was recently published.

Nullification

When did I become this expendable commodity?
Every societal norm is nothing but odd to me
I'm increasingly aware of my own insignificance
Contributing liberally to my growing indifference
I'm crushing under the weight of my sporatic intelligence
Ive crawled out of the depths, but am returning to hell again.
This internal conflict is destroying my soul
I don't seem to be accomplishing any of my goals
Yet I seem as if I was put here to write
To try and offer someone else some insight
I utilize adjectives, pronouns and verbs
To assure that my spirit is projected and heard
But it offers little solace when you're dying inside
Evidence of my failures in the tears that ive cried
I have a tough exterior becuase my emotions are inferior
Love was never something fabricating my exterior
An ineffectual intellectual is what I truly am
Cynical and realizing the folly of man
These disgusting human beings that surround me like air
Inherently evil becuase life isn't fair
Its a roll of the dice, the life that we live
It'd be nice to breed nothing but healthy kids
And live in a world where hungers no issue
With no viruses that corrode muscle tissue
With no threat of crack addiction polluting the streets
With no acts of terrorism dilluting the peace
Its said desperate times call for desperate measures
In my opinon, a euphemism, for sinful endeavors
It's these things I realize that make me not care
Theres no other mind to which mine can be compared
Becuase im on a seperate tangent of existence
Where everythings black and white, plain and simplistic
I'm living in purgatory, but I am yet to die
The transition will be something I fail to realize
I am not depressed or stricken with sorrow
I just have no emotions, purchased or borrowed
No one can even concieve my plight
The reason im tossing and turning at night
Im sick of this life and this need to pretend
Because regardless of what I do, its the same in the end.

Man.


I am the reason you turn off the T.V.
When you see malnourished children in need
I am the cause of every wary
And all the nuclear weapons we store
I am the development of chemical weapons
Pardoned as simply a means of protection
I am the spread of violence and disease
the magnitude of which you cant even conceive
I am the motive behind rape and murder
Societies criminal catalytic converter
I am the profiteer of war and violence
and the eerie post-atomic bomb silence
I am the reason push comes to shove
the universal bankruptcy of peace and love
I am the cause behind 9/11
and mankinds' dependence on hoping for heaven
I am insurgency, rebellion, and hate
The likes of which we just cant regulate
I am the upper class neglecting the poor
Saw-dust in formula they place in the stores
I am the turmoil in the middle-east
We profit too much to truly advocate peace
I am the priest who molests little boys
When questioned the clergy seemed to lose all their poise
I am the rationale "out of sight out of mind"
You stay to yours and ill stay to mine.
I am behind everything morally illegal
I am simply mans inherent evil....

[Jim Colyer]

Wow! Times are tough!