1. TAUGHT TO STEAL

Wide eye
Open to the world shown
Forming thought
Of right and wrong
Innocent haze
Giving way to corrupt ideal
Lost days
Taught to steal

It’s all for free
It’s meant to be

It is yours
If you want it
All you have to do
Is take it

Innocence robbed too young
Now I take what I want


2. DUST OFF

The crave for bad
To inflict pain
Internal life on display
No backwards step
No right way
The pain is yours
Saw it on tv

Brain cells decay
Saw it on tv

Unhear inhalation
Static forms a patern
Connecting dots from nothing
Turning to dust

Inhale the chemical
Feel the fall


3. ABSENCE

Slashed to skin
Committed to endless memory
Passed on
Absence tends to scar
When day’s don’t last
And presence is passive
Passed out
The pain is yours

It’s a waste
Disdain
A reputation
A stain for all to see

Roots wrapped around my neck
Stranglehold on what I’ll become


4. INHUMAN JOY

Animal instinct takes it’s hold
It unravels and unfolds
It sucks out the life
And shows you the door

Do you lie to get what you want?

Drenched soaked wet
A sick get
Knowing all along

Do you lie to get you want?

Pathetic men
Laid bare
Fault lines exposed
Shown to be small

Expulsion leading to decay


5. SICKNESS ON DISPLAY

Living snow globe life
Easy to turn upside down
Not easy to come back now

Violent kick to ribs
Knocks out all the wind
Display on the front lawn
Shows the harm done

Anger doesn’t fade
Land mines in thoughts
Brain as hand grenade
It runs in the background
It doesn’t fade

Smoldering in the front I lay
Ashe leaves a pattern
Trash life on display


6. CONQUEST

Egotistical plot to dethrone and enslave
Without perception no succession
Left in an unmarked grave
The throat cut
Feeds the young
Self destruction or betterment

Perilous interaction
In pursuit of conquest

It’s either the bottom or the top
Long way to fall
I’d rather not


7. CONCRETE

Never thought it could be me
To sleep on concrete
Pavement
Pavement stings
How could I be here?
It was me
Sleep

I’ll drown myself
I’ll burn my bridge
Sleep on concrete


8. SOLVENT

To lose track of time
To escape from life
Self inflicted
Self injected
Until the brain expands
From the head
Temporary reprieve
From emotional terror
Blood returning to person

Temporary reset
Damned to cycle


9. VIOLENT CRIME

Tensions build
Until something breaks
Time to think long since passed
Situation no way back

From fist to face
To knife to gut
To giving chase
To giving up


10. ...AND PUNISHMENT

Taught through the way of raise
Insufficient funds insufficient pay
Finally saw a way

Down and out
Is a way of life
A pact made with yourself
To stay the same

Meant to thrive
Left to die

I wish there was a way to get back home
But now we’re left to carry the weight