Romanticism and Haikus

Make me want to vomit.
Why is it that whenever I try to find real, stark, honest poetry and prose,
I always stumble upon Romanticism and Haikus?

Give me blank verse
Give me ballads
Give me free verse
Give me epics

Give me stories about lust, about hate
About torture, lamentation, despair,
Love, pain, sex, skin
Singular moments in one's life
Poems that put you there, in the scene, in the action.

Do not write about the beauty of a simple flower,
A haiku about bees buzzing by,
Do not coddle me with the simplicity of a cloud

Clouds rumble, they scream out, they clash, they breathe,
They contort and twist and they anger,
They fire
They do not drift.

I do not know what grade school education does to the soul of Man, but I'm lucky I somehow escaped.
'Meet the Masters' destroyed my interest in art, any feeling into the heart and soul of the artist, any grasp of expression
Orchestra destroyed my confidence in myself, my love of music,
my ability to look at sound as an expression of what words cannot.
Literature classes killed my view of writing as a pure escape of the soul, to express freely, to put down my thoughts on paper with no worry about consequence.

If you cannot teach art, music and literature as it deserves to be taught, then simply claim it is all the Devil, and let the children find it themselves.

So do not give me your idle haikus, and thoughts upon a tree,
Give me what challenges me as a human being, what makes me learn, and grow, and feel.

Between the Tic of Every Second

So I've written the end of this song so far, still working on the rest, trying to come up with an idea of how to lead in to it. It's coming out more angry than I expected, which is fun.
I'm embarrassed at the quality of it at the moment, and the flow doesn't make sense. Hopefully it will once all is done.


But between every breath, and
Between the tic of every second,
When I look in your eyes
I see the fire returned in mine,
when I look in your eyes I see
Everything that should be,
When I look in your eyes I see.

So When I look at you I laugh,
Because I don't know if the lies
Come from your eyes
Or from your mouth...

So there lay the riddle,
Of your heart I can't unlock,
When you say goodbye do you
Want me to chase you,
When you say hello do you
Expect me to walk?

Meaning of Life

Meaning of Life

The way it sees to me, a lot of people overthink what the meaning of life is, or believe that its some great mystery why we’re here. I think its actually a very simple message, as simplicity seems to be what works best in life. To me, the meaning is simply to Live.

Going through life day after day sitting in a cubicle filing papers, then coming out and getting drunk, hating the week, living for the weekend, is not what I believe living to be.
To live, you need to always keep that inner child alive and strong. That’s the goal for me. Once that child inside of you dies, then what’s life worth living for? That child is the essence of all wonder, of adventure, of fun, of love, of excitement. When you let that child starve to death out of stagnation, then what are you doing on this planet? This world has so much to offer, on every plane of existence, how can you sit there and miss out on it all?
Stars are born, stars collapse, galaxies collide, seas rise and fall, mountains climb up and crash back to the ground, animals evolve, nations spread out and fade away, wars explode, lives are saved, disaster strikes, miracles occur, people fall in love, people get married, cripples learn to walk again, children are born, victories are achieved, people fulfill their ambitions, businesses open up, books are written, food is loved, music is made, and in the middle of all of this, you are here. So why would you sit there and do nothing with your life?

Go outside, take a risk, make a new friend, approach that girl you find cute, change your pattern, lay in a park, open your eyes, walk to work, take a new route home, live, laugh, love and learn.

Don’t hold back.

You’re only given this one life to experience, so make this life as good as you can make it.