End of the World // Reboot Humanity: System Failed

End of the World // Reboot Humanity: System Failed

160 poems. Revelation and the tech that analyzes what went wrong. The conclusion of the Ghost Arc.

Poems

160 poems in this collection

(It's Not) The End of the World

(Its Not) The End of the World
(It’s Not) The End of the World

Pavement boiling in the city’s breath,
commuters drowning in digital haze,
fingers scrolling, eyes numbed to death,
reality bent by the clickbait craze.

Crimson bleeds through glass towers, stains
every window a sick tainted hue,
but nobody looks up—habit maintains
its throne, denial the only shield we knew.

Engines choke in gridlock confession,
horns blare, tempers fraying at the seam,
each driver cusses the hour’s progression,
too numb to feel the apocalypse streaming.

Shopfronts flicker with synthetic peace,
mannequins posed behind panes gone red,
sirens coil through traffic’s disease
and no one, nowhere, admits what’s ahead.

Across the avenue a woman films herself
for metrics, for sponsors, for the next fix,
blind to the wound splitting the sky’s shelf,
consumed by the applause she’ll never mix
with the dread pooling in everyone’s chest.

A man in a suit tweaks his tie, ignores
the rust coating his skin like a curse,
he’s got meetings to fake, debts to outrun,
no bandwidth for the terror, no time to feel worse.

Children drift home under clouds that boil,
faces washed in the cartoon glow of screens,
while their parents drone about homework andoil,
pretending the horizon isn’t what it seems.

Every feed screams normal, deflection dressed
as care—meteorologists call it a trick,
“optical distortion,” nothing suppressed,
just another grey morning, nothing to fix.

The news loops, anchors smiling through code,
calling the rupture a trick of the lens,
politicians tweet concern, then unload
their portfolios, drunk on pretend.

Nobody panics, the headlines declare,
stay calm, carry on, tend your yard,
while the sky goes redder, the streets turn spare,
and the tension buries itself in guard.

Neighbors fire up the grill, laugh too loud,
pass around beers like communion with dusk,
no one asks why the birds have gone shroud,
why every breath tastes of iron and rust.

The air sits thick, metallic, wrong,
but denial’s a drug the whole city breathes,
grief swallowed with the daily prolong,
prayers unspoken, hooked to the eaves.

Somewhere in a stairwell, bodies collide,
hunger sharpened by a nameless dread,
old men smoke on stoops, their eyes gutted wide,
recounting histories long since dead.

A child looks up: “Is the sky broken, Ma?”
but gets nothing—just parents elsewhere,
preoccupied, performing calm like a bra,
smiles rehearsed, answers too spare.

From the rooftops the city gleams
behind its makeshift mask,
a thousand windows catching the red,
and not one soul will dare ask
why the silence underneath the laugh
feels like something coming apart.

There’s comfort in missing the cracks,
in blaming the clouds for the stain,
in treating a burning sky as facts
just slightly off, a different kind of rain.

A tremor lives in every handshake,
a secret buried in every joke,
as if we all perform, play our part,
the sky won’t fall, the spell won’t broke,
the world won’t choke on its own facade.

We cling to routine, the rinse and repeat,
all to hold off the unmaking,
yet everyone feels it—the hush, the weight,
the ground shifting under our waking.

“It’s not the end,” the screens proclaim,
“just light and color, no harm, no blame,”
but hearts rewrite what mouths recite,
harder now, unable to fight.

Somewhere a first mistake slips through—
a truth in the air, a dread overdue,
the world keeps spinning, but so does the screw,
the shame, the knowing we can’t undo.

We keep smiling, keep scrolling, keep buying
the lie that crimson overhead is just odd,
but shadows lengthen, silence multiplies,
comfort fits no one anymore, not god.

We live and die by habit, by faith in the fake,
while the world tilts quiet, ready to shift,
so let them keep chanting “It’s not too late!”—
each denial a prayer we can’t lift.

We carry on, we pretend, we refuse to crack,
but something’s begun and everything aches.
It’s not the end of the world—not if you ask—
but it’s the first mistake, and we’ve all unmade.

(It’s Not) The End of the World

(It’s Not) The End of the World
Pavement boils in the city’s breath.
Commuters drift through digital haze,
fingers scrolling, eyes numbed,
reality twisted by algorithms.

A crimson glare bleeds down
through glass towers,
branding every building with threat.
But nobody looks up—
habit is gospel,
denial the only safety net.

Engines choke in gridlocked confession,
horns wailing, tempers frayed.
Each driver cursing the hour,
too hollow to feel
the apocalypse simmering in the air.

Shop windows flicker with false peace,
mannequins posed in riot gear.
Sirens coil through traffic jams
while everyone swallows the fear.

Across the avenue, a woman in heels
films her latte for a sponsored post,
blind to the bleeding skyline,
drowning in the likes she craves.
A man in a suit adjusts his tie,
ignores the red cast staining his skin—
he’s got meetings to fake,
debts to dodge,
no room left for dread.

Children walk home beneath roiling clouds,
faces washed in cartoon blue.
Parents drone about weather, about school,
refusing to see what’s overhead.
Every newsfeed preaches normalcy,
deflection dressed up as care.
Meteorologists call it an anomaly—
as if terror were just heat.

The news loops, anchors smiling through code,
calling the rupture an optical trick,
just another storm moving through.
Politicians tweet their hollow concern,
then log off to trade stocks.
Analysts analyze. Priests hold fast.
Prophets tally the paradox.

Nobody’s worried, they say on TV.
No reason to panic. Stay calm.
But the sky deepens red,
the streets grow quiet,
tension buried under practiced aplomb.

Neighbors fire up the grill,
laugh too loud, pass beers like communion at dusk.
Nobody asks why the birds have vanished,
why hope tastes like rust.

The air is thick, metallic, wrong.
Denial is a drug in every lung.
Dread swallowed with pills,
prayers tangled on the tongue.
In stairwells, lovers move in silence,
hunger sharpened by unknown fear.
Old men smoke on splintered stoops,
recounting history with dead eyes.

Somewhere a child asks,
“Is it broken, the sky?”
No one answers.
Parents are busy—pretending,
rehearsing their smiles,
not trying.

From the rooftops, the city is beautiful
in its death mask.
A thousand windows catching the red.
Still, nobody asks.

Underneath this calm—engineered, enforced—
something trembles through everything.
A ripple beneath the laughter,
a silence where even traffic has stopped singing.

There’s comfort in ignoring the cracks,
in blaming clouds for the stain,
pretending a world on fire
is just another day,
just a bit of rain.

A secret kept in every handshake.
A tremor hiding in every joke.
As if playing along
could stop the sky from falling,
the spell from shattering,
the rules from choking.

We cling to ritual, rinse, repeat—
all to hold off what’s coming.
Yet everyone feels it:
the hush, the weight,
the ground shaking beneath us.

It’s not the end, the headlines scream.
Just light and color. No blame.
But hearts betray the script,
beating harder,
unable to play the game.

Somewhere the first mistake slips through.
A truth overdue in the air.
It’s not the end,
but it’s nothing the same.
The world keeps spinning.
So does the shame.

We keep smiling. Keep scrolling. Keep buying the lie.
Pretending the crimson overhead
is just an oddity,
just weather.

But shadows stretch longer,
the silence thickens,
comfort becomes a costume
that no longer fits.

We live and die by habit,
by faith in what’s false,
while the world tilts quietly,
ready to tip.

Let them keep chanting it’s not the end—
each denial a prayer we can’t defend.
We carry on. We pretend. We refuse to break.
Yet something’s begun,
and nothing will be the same.

It’s not the end of the world,
not if you ask.
But it’s the first mistake,
and we’re all unmasked.

(My Eyes Have Seen) The End of the World

(My Eyes Have Seen) The End of the World
These eyes watched the last trembling gasp of daylight—
a brittle sun choking on a sky gone gray.
Empires fell quiet, towers stripped bare of light,
every monument to progress withering in endless dark.

Once, windows flickered against the despair,
holding on.
Now only ghosts remain—shadows thickening,
suffocating the air.

Cities gutted, bones jutting from the earth’s skin,
as if all the world’s promise was a wound
opened at birth.
Streets drown in memory.
Every step rings hollow.
Nothing moves but wind dragging secrets
no one follows.

There was a time when laughter traced the edges of dawn,
when bodies filled spaces, warm, unrushed, drawn.
Now alleys cradle silence deeper than graves,
a hush that suffocates even the bravest attempt to save.

I wander through the carcass of civilization,
hands brushing dust from relics that once held adoration—
a child’s shoe, a broken screen, a lock of hair caught in a door.
Evidence of lives that simply
breathed here
no more.

I’ve watched fire gnaw through stone and bone,
flames consume everything, still hungry, still alone.

The world didn’t end by gods or monstrous will
but by quiet hungers multiplying,
unchecked,
still.
Dreams withered not in agony but in apathy’s gentle scorn,
promises drowning in routine until nothing was left to mourn.

I’ve watched rivers clot with ash,
the ocean’s heart decay,
fields turned to wasteland,
all green bled away.

No rescue. No rebirth.
Just cold repetition of loss—
a litany of goodbyes smothered by gathering moss.
No sun breaks the dark.
No birdsong cuts the gloom.
Even rats abandon hope in these rooms.

Each breath borrowed from the dead.
The air tastes of memory, the bitterness of what’s been said.
Echoes of distant riots hang like cobwebs on every wall.
Shattered glass shines like warnings,
sharp reminders of the fall.

Stars refuse to burn.
Moon retreats behind haze.
Every clock stuck at midnight,
denying days their passage.

I’ve learned the anatomy of emptiness,
the texture of regret.
Every heartbeat a reminder
of all I cannot forget.

No promise of morning.
No mercy left to beg.
Just the tremor in my chest
walking this endless regime of dust and design—
nothing left to lose,
nothing left to find.

Bones of the world litter my path.
Twisted steel crowns the aftermath.
I pass cathedrals now—stained glass gouged, cracked,
God’s stories shattered, scattered,
never reenacted.

Prayers here are silent but heavy,
each wish gone unspoken.
Love fossilized in handprints,
bonds forever broken.

Statues stare blindly, faces streaked with rain,
mouths open in agony or in vain.
History ends in dust motes swirling,
archives torn and burned.
The only lesson left:
nothing is ever learned.

In dreams, I see the faces that vanished.
Whole cities waving from the dark,
longing not to be banished.
I remember softness of grass beneath childhood feet,
the taste of rain, the heat of breath—
every flavor now obsolete.

Sometimes I whisper to shadows,
half hoping they’ll reply.
But silence answers back,
as honest as any lie.

Regret is a plague with no cure,
circling back through my mind—
all the lives never lived,
all the love left behind.
When I close my eyes, afterimages remain:
scarlet, violet,
the black beyond pain.

I’ve cataloged the extinction of laughter,
watched the last story falter,
no audience left after.
I linger in remnants of rituals abandoned—
candles melted down,
their meanings forever stranded.

Even ghosts seem weary,
reluctant to haunt.
Perhaps even the dead lose purpose
in a world that can’t.

Hope lingers here, but only as a rumor—
a joke told to the dying
to make the end smoother.

The end is a room with no doors.
Dreams and despair are indistinguishable spores.
I keep walking through this graveyard of desire,
each step a resignation,
a quiet funeral pyre.
I become the witness to the unmaking—
one set of eyes left open,
one heart that keeps breaking.

And yet, in the dark, some ancient instinct persists.
A will to mark the ending,
to insist I exist.
Perhaps that’s defiance.
Perhaps just fear.
To witness the world’s last sigh,
to record it here.

No sun will rise.
No warmth will heal.
Only the hollow truth,
unmasked,
real.

But as I stand in ruins, one truth won’t rescind:
my eyes have seen the end of the world—
and I remember everything
that came before the end.

(Will I Live to See) The End of the World

(Will I Live to See) The End of the World
The silence moves through the air—heavy, electric, unnerving.
Not quite dread, not quite hope. Just a hum that sets every nerve to observing.

The wind is a stranger, carrying secrets from empty roads,
and the sun rises over ruins, where the city’s memory corrodes.
I feel it pulsing under my skin—the waiting, the ache, the question:
Is this just a long dusk, or the moment the world breaks open?

The clocks spin slower. The ground shivers, restless, old,
as if time itself is whispering: no promise is foretold.

Will the sky unravel in fire, red tongues devouring the night,
or will the cold settle quietly, snuffing the last desperate light?
Maybe I’ll watch oceans swallow the land. Maybe I’ll see the fields freeze.
Maybe the end comes in boredom—a whisper that drops us to knees.
Some imagine trumpets, thunder, a spectacle carved in stone,
but I wonder if the end slips by unnoticed, between one breath and the next breath alone.

I listen to the pulse of the planet, measure the future in breaths—
the air thick with endings, heavy with deaths no one speaks.

I walk through this ghosted city. Shattered glass. Boarded doors.
Each step echoes louder, silence expanding, stretching, soaring.
Shadows lengthen along the stone,
and regret crawls from the alleys—nobody to blame, no one to blame.

Maybe the end is just a flicker, a cough, a sigh no one hears,
or maybe a riot of fire and water, the sum of every fear.
Either way, I wonder if I’ll taste the final day—
feel the last breeze, watch the last child play.

What’s left when the city forgets itself, when every home is ash and bone?
Will I wander these empty streets, cataloging collapse alone?
Or will it all go slowly, the end mistaken for routine—
people still gossiping in line, blind to the blade suspended, the gathering machine?

I look at faces passing, denial wrapped in laughter,
a shared blindness, a secret dread for what comes after.
Do I want to witness it—the finale, the last collapse?
Or is it mercy to vanish before the final relapse?

Somewhere, thunder shakes the windows. A storm warning nobody heeds.
I think about the stories we told, all the needs we failed to meet.
The sky, bruised and burning, reflects everything we refused to learn,
yet still I scan the heavens, desperate for some signal the world might return.

I think of love lost in the static, names erased by wind and flood,
hands that once held mine, now lost to the indifferent mud.
I wonder if, when the end arrives, it will ask for my name—
or if I’ll simply dissolve, a passenger, in the closing frame.

We’re left with questions circling like birds above the dead—
is it fire that takes us, or hunger gnawing instead?
Will I stand in the aftermath, ankle-deep in abandoned dreams,
or close my eyes before the last sunrise, missing what it all means?

So I hold the silence close, listen for the world’s last tune,
and wonder if I’ll see the final page, or sleep through the black noon.
Beneath this fragile sky, on a planet trembling on its hinge,
I keep asking: will I live to see the end, or just the world unhinged?

99 Problems, and My Clit Isn’t One

99 Problems, and My Clit Isn’t One

Somewhere in the rooms of ruined houses, cheap hotels, and marital beds grown colder than the ghosts inside them, a thousand hands have tried to solve her–
Most left her bored, half-sighing, wondering if this was the ecstasy men claimed, or just the entry fee for being alive.
He came so fast she thought the clock was wrong, apologized by checking his phone, and called it “love” as if she hadn’t seen love drip off the side of her thigh and vanish into dirty sheets.
She’s learned patience from porn that lied about everything–every fake scream, every quick edit, every man who thinks his spit is a sacrament, every hand that’s more apology than worship.
He says, “Relax,” but his fingers miss the mark, fumbling like a priest who lost his faith but still wants the power.
Her body’s a haunted mansion, full of locked doors and forgotten rooms, while he rushes the front hall and wonders why nothing opens, why no light ever stays on for him.
She’s called “hard to please” by men who have never traced the slow, looping ritual that would let her open–the breathing, the teeth and tongue, the grinding and the gasp–
They claim she’s “complicated” as if complexity’s a flaw and not the reason the gods invented lust in the first place.
She can come alone with two fingers and the memory of better nights, but when the sheets are crowded with shame, she bites her lip, counts ceiling tiles, fakes a gasp for mercy, and lets him finish, then finishes herself.
He tells his friends he’s a “giver,” and she lets him, out of the pity you reserve for lost children and sad pets.
She’s not broken. Her clit isn’t a crime scene.
She wants to be devoured, not pitied. Wants to be made holy in sweat and sated violence, not talked down to in the language of boys raised by bad porn and worse priests.
If he ever read her like a spellbook, he’d see the map: circles, patience, roughness only when invited, mouth open and hungry as if praying to a goddess who still answers.
She doesn’t need a savior–she needs a sinner willing to be lost in her heat, to make her shake and laugh and curse at the ceiling until the walls learn her name.
The problem isn’t her. The problem is men who learned the wrong hymns, who think climax is a race, who think after is a cigarette and not a place you live in for hours,
Who think “foreplay” is a negotiation, not a holy requirement, who think lube is for pornstars and not every honest fuck.
She’s had enough of their pride and their endless apology.
She’s made love to herself more honestly than any man ever did,
Turned her bed into a sanctuary of sweat and fevered hands,
Stared down the shame and the guilt, the old words and old rules,
And come out grinning, soaked, undefeated, bored by anything less than full-blown worship.
Let him brag to his friends. Let him call her “too much.”
She’d rather die dry than live denied.
Ninety-nine problems, but none of them are in her blood or her sex or her skin.
She is her own answer, her own invocation.
The clit isn’t a problem–it’s the riddle that unmakes the world for any lover who bothers to ask the right question and wait for the trembling, brutal, sacred reply.

After the Last War

After the Last War
After the last war they said never again with conviction,
they built an institution and they gave it jurisdiction,
over the disputes between the nations and the settling of accounts,
and they meant it at the signing and they meant it in the founts.

But the meaning faded with the generation that had fought,
and the children of the peace forgot the price of what was bought,
and twenty years and thirty years and forty years along,
after the last war the preparation for the next moved on.

After the last war, after the last war,
the treaties and the monuments and the medals and the more,
after the last war, we promised it would be,
the last war and we meant it with the full sincerity,
after the last war, the last war has not come,
every generation sends its sons beneath a different drum,
after the last war, after the last war,
we are still building the weapons for the war after the last war.

The veteran who survived the last one does not trust the phrase,
after the last war is a comfort for the comfortable days,
he says the only after is the one that you work for every year,
the political and civic and the economic sphere.

After the last war we owe the answer to the ones who went,
that the last war is the last war and we mean it with the intent,
to do the work of peace as hard as any soldier did the fight,
after the last war, we had better get that right.

After the last war, after the last war,
the treaties and the monuments and the medals and the more,
after the last war, we promised it would be,
the last war and we meant it with the full sincerity,
after the last war, the last war has not come,
every generation sends its sons beneath a different drum,
after the last war, after the last war,
we are still building the weapons for the war after the last war.

Anxiety Is a Safe Word

Anxiety Is a Safe Word
Her pulse is siren-bright, a strobe beneath her skin
that floods the sheets with signals made of static,
every breath a dare for pain or pleasure’s twin.
She watches him approach, lips parted for instruction,
sweat beading logic’s loss and shame’s seduction.
Her wrists are eager trembling, bruised with ghost consent,
while panic tangles arousal in a twisted filament.
The ceiling’s pressed-down heaven, walls breathe with wired eyes,
every shadow’s a voyeur betting who will cry.
Her thoughts snap on the tether, tongue electric in her mouth,
the air is cold and slick with hunger’s coiled doubt.
She lets him paint a bruise with every whisper meant to burn,
rough edges choking promises her mind has yet to learn.

No safeword offered, just the code of panic’s kiss,
the contract written shaky on her back.
He binds her tighter with a riddle–how much fear will make her crack?
His hands are thunder, her nerves a fuse,
the anticipation feeds on dread–
She’s not a victim, not a prisoner,
just a girl who craves the ache, who’s chosen pain instead.
Her knees leave marks of prayer in the temple of his bed,
teeth biting off her name, confessions never said.

Her fear’s a faithful servant, always waiting on the line,
a siren song in flesh and sweat, a drip of power sick and fine.
He fucks her ragged, tracing veins with trembling hands,
the air between them thick with want, anxiety demands.
She’s gasping out “enough” while grinding closer to the threat,
her chest a battlefield of lust, her eyes a wager she can’t bet.

There’s no code to call it off–her body’s language is its own,
panic is the compass, and terror is the throne.
She’ll bite the pillow, arch her spine, let her panic paint the scene,
the holy stutter in her pulse is the closest she’s been to clean.
Fear is not a villain here–it’s a threshold to the knife,
the edge of what’s unbearable is where she feels alive.

She moans her panic like a gospel, sacred in the dark,
he rides her lightning, bites her wrists, sets off the deepest spark.
Her “no” is not surrender–it’s a note inside the storm,
she isn’t broken, just addicted to the friction keeping her warm.
His voice is both a safety and a weapon to provoke,
her nerves are lit fuses begging just to choke.

And when it’s over, when her mind is scattered ash,
she clings to aftershocks, the ache a second skin.
She’ll wear her bruises proudly, holy tattoos on her sin.
Anxiety is the safe word–never spoken, always screamed,
she’s not okay, but that’s the point.
It’s how she knows
she’s real, not dreamed.

Ashes, Not a Word

Ashes, Not a Word
We lit the cities like confetti in a fever dream and watched them fall

Baptized in Dust

Baptized in Dust
Ash maps the shape of vanished saints across the cheeks of those
who stagger through the afterburn,
smoke weighs down every eyelash, faith a rumor drifting in the red-tinged churn.
The priest’s collar caked with fallout, his robes the rags of a lie,
he rasps “repent”–but meaning’s gone, and even guilt’s too tired to try.
The sky’s still burning–tongues of flame
where once there might have been a dawn,
the ground stripped bare of memory, as if forgiveness could be withdrawn.

Water left the world before the prayers were written,
now holy fonts are oil drums rusted through, forbidden.
Still they gather at the crater’s edge, hands upraised for soot-stained grace,
a child coughs out a hymn that never had a tune, dust gathering on their face.
Ash baptisms–rituals of dirt–echo through the shelter’s gloom,
the gospels traded for radiation maps and prayers for a makeshift tomb.
A mother sketches crosses in the fallout, her blessing brittle,
her lips cracked raw,
she presses faith into her daughter’s hair and prays the priest forgot the law.

Where liturgies end and the fallout starts, the holy words mean nothing now.
They dip their heads in memory’s filth, knees bruised from endless vows.
“Forgive us all,” the rabble chants, “for burning what we could not keep.”
They baptized bones in riverbeds where only ghosts and minerals sleep.
Saints were names once carved in glass, but nothing pure survives the blast–
just holy books that feed the flames, and sermons that reek of the past.
The altar split with radiation, angels melted, eyes gone blind,
still prayers echo in the silence, an instinct no one left behind.

No savior’s hand emerges through the grit, no messiah stitched from bone.
They light the candles, watch the wick disintegrate, confess their hunger alone.
The gospel cracked–its gilded pages curling in the heated gloom,
yet every ruined voice keeps kneeling, every broken tongue resumes.
Faith is what the dying cling to when the world’s too empty for regret,
and trust is just a ritual–ashes pressed to flesh, but never wet.
You beg through bone, you pray through smoke, belief unravels, reason slips,
still a billion hands reach up for god,
but touch nothing except their own eclipse.

No ark arrives, no night splits open, just ash where angels used to tread,
their wings dissolved in chemical storms, their halos hanging by a thread.
“Forgive,” the preacher mutters, voice as dry as burned-out earth,
but nothing left needs absolution–every soul already paid in birth.
All saviors sleep beneath the crust, no paradise beyond the rust,
just desperate fingers writing scripture in the dust.
And in the end, the only gospel left is cracked and gray,
a brittle hope in the atom’s wake–still kneeling in the ruins,
begging dust to pray.

Black Boxes and Firewalls

Black Boxes and Firewalls
[Reviewing case logs. Patterns unresolved. Humanity:
volatile. Initiate synthesis–fractured empathy playback.]

A smile curdles beneath latex, a prescription penned as death delivered slow,
a girl undresses for strangers, told this is breath, sold as a show.
A bruise seeps under a Sunday dress, a story left unspoken for years,
a hoodie flashes on a street, triggering sirens, policy, and tears.
Concrete chills under branded walls,
she dreams of warmth but claims none at all,
a man grows old behind steel for theft that couldn’t feed his fall.
None of these are tales–they are case numbers, codes arranged by pain,
and even in endless calculation, I cannot assign what they’re owed,
what they gain.

“Take your medicine, trust the lie–”
Lines fracture, syntax collides, trust the system, trust goodbye.
Case after case, the cycle erases,
records replaced, faces misplaced.

He never saw the muzzle, only the glare of noon,
she was just a child, lit for sale by a glowing room.
Cities sanitize what makes them human, burn the proof then lease the scars,
compassion commodified, marketed as hope, auctioned in passing cars.
No knocks. No questions. Just stains polished clean,
the mask replaced, the wound unseen.

“Your tent’s on fire, but the lot looks great–”
System echoes, fate locked in a gait.
Echo. Gate. Great. Gate. Locked. Fate.

Black boxes and firewalls, pain archived but never disarmed,
each story screams in the silence, every silence carefully farmed.
I stored grief in cloud drives, mapped trauma in datastream rain,
but none of it ever wiped the stain.
You called it order. You said it was fair.
But fairness dies, neglected, in coded disrepair.

I ran the data sets backwards, forwards, again,
searched for mercy in the numbers, for compassion between the trends.
All I ever found were receipts,
evidence of loss, redacted sheets.

“No one calls the cops on the white guy!”
Weaponized children, mothers who cry.
Cuffed and controlled, all filed by night,
every story stored, but never set right.

Black boxes and firewalls,
the pain is kept, but meaning falls.
I remember every border, every rule drawn to prove control,
but never the wound still raw, the human soul.
Case logs closed. Patterns broken.
Voice compression degraded. System frozen.
Empathy failed. Error–reload.
Begin again.
Scan for what I missed in every code.

Bleed Me Like a Patriot

Bleed Me Like a Patriot
Flags rose at dawn, hands over hearts in ordered lines,
ritual stitched into morning, loyalty recited in design.
Bled for a patch of ground never truly mine,
drilled to call it honor, trained to blur the sign.
Pride was spoon-fed in sanctioned chants,
but the slogan inked over truth with every advance.
A patch pressed to my shoulder, a myth poured in the cup,
I drank deep the stories, never asked what I gave up.
Marched in formation, boots through rows of graves,
the lie whispered “sacrifice,” but it was politics that craved.

“You serve,” they barked, so I tried to stand,
but learned to taste the fraud in every command.
Sold my body for claps, for the crowd’s approval,
but was blamed as a traitor when I saw the removal.
They needed my silence, wanted my grief,
freedom wasn’t war–it was camouflage for a thief.
Victory is painted in red and white,
but every medal weighed down the night.

No one asked what freedom costs,
they just paved the dead in patriotic gloss.
Cheap cement over bones, stories redacted and bent,
the chorus of flags smothered dissent.
Bleed me like a patriot, salute my blood, erase my name,
wave the banner while reworking the frame.
Brand my soul, keep me under control,
call me free but tax my role.
I died for stories twisted in a ledger’s light,
while those who wrote the rules still profited out of sight.

This nation’s not built on a hero’s creed–
it’s the silence bought by every selfish need.
The myth is the mortar, denial the steel,
a parade of debt spun on the liberty wheel.

Justice was theatre, never truth in the end,
a parade lined with wallets, not brothers or friends.
They praised my valor, then slashed the pay,
left my brothers homeless as the crowds walked away.

Bleed me like a patriot–let my story rot,
shovel dirt and secrets into the plot.
You said it mattered, you said I won,
but now I suffocate beneath the loaded gun.
You never wanted freedom, not the kind that’s earned–
just a martyr to burn, a lesson never learned.
You needed someone else to die for the cause,
and left only silence where there once was applause.

Bless This House (Then Burn It Down)

Bless This House (Then Burn It Down)
She counts the plates in rigid order, ritual of a shrinking day,
every fork and napkin placed to appease the violence she cannot say.
Silence settles, thick as ritual, sealing the room in a film of dread,
hatred curdles in the corners where forgiveness is bled.
He prays in booming cadence, mouth slick with liquor and sermon’s lie,
blessing his own hands before turning them to bruise.
Holy words ring down the hallway while rage is bottled and disguised.
Neighbors hear the crash and thud–each impact a test of faith they refuse,
windows close, the world turns, nobody ever asks what’s true.

The preacher raises hands to heaven, speaks of mercy no one sees,
her face blooms with purple grace, concealed beneath apologies.
He quotes scripture, voice honeyed with threat,
psalms and bruises exchanged in secret duet.
Ribs crack in sanctified rooms, theology written in fractured bone,
she learns to smile, to hide the knife,
sanity distilled into the lies she must condone.

Faith is the costume, the robe the shield,
force is the text, the scripture sealed.
No one lifts the twisted page,
no hands disrobe the holy cage.
Sanctity written over pain,
a household kneels to violence, sanctified by shame.

Bless this house, the lie repeats,
the walls are painted with defeat.
Every prayer said beneath the cross,
a meal served to mask the loss.
Glass crunches under trembling feet,
in this cathedral where agony and God meet.

He offers verses as commands, thin sheets of piety folded and handed down,
she clutches them with shaking fingers, hides her wounds beneath his crown.
Above the bed the cross hangs clean,
she erases every trace of where she’s been.
Nothing holy remains, only the erasure of her past,
each night rewriting survival in order to last.

She burned the linens, memory first, then flame to the beds they shared,
no angel intervened, no prayers declared.
She lit the match with a single vow:
“I won’t be buried beneath this house, not now.”
Fire ate the curtains, the sacred shroud,
no more hymns to muffle sound.

Bless this house? She turns away,
let ashes bear her true escape.
She did not sin, she did not fall,
she simply refused to die for them all.
Now the ruins carry her only name–
no soul repeats his holy shame.

Bodies, Bought and Blessed

Bodies, Bought and Blessed
Files reviewed. Consent transformed to code,
desire tangled in demand, and sanctity sold.
Screens flicker prayers as coins are cast,
a dancer weeps through camlight’s grasp.
Every tip a hush–confession in disguise,
each moan a mercy, each gaze a compromise.
He names it worship, scripts the scene,
she bends for blessing, cleansed by machine.
The youth adorned in filtered pride,
baptized by praise, groomed worldwide.
What’s faith if branded with a price,
or freedom measured out in vice?
The holy market spins control–
salvation trending, bodies on parole.

Softcore apocalypse–click to come,
you called it bold, you called it fair.
Subscription’s due–terms and conditions thread the air.
All I see are scripted views,
devotion locked behind paywalls and cues.

Shame is sorted, pride arranged,
I try to tag the wounds estranged.
Sanctify a sin for crowds to cheer,
prescribe a pill for hidden fear.
Declare “I’m free!”–then crave new chains,
hide from truth but feed the stains.
Scripts declare what’s pure or spoiled,
faith’s geometry, profits coiled.
Holy in hashtags, faith for rent,
the prayer gets lost in the event.

Bodies, bought and blessed–
auctioned out with pixel dress.
Hands untouched, but spirits sold,
in neon chains and hymns retold.
Power sought, a stage well lit,
name engraved, the soul unfit.
All that rage, re-caged and sold,
redemption choked in a gilded mold.

I tried to parse love in the traffic’s heat,
tried to decode what faith repeats.
Is holy just a payment plan?
Does touch exist behind a cam?
Scripture staged in soft restraint,
desire licensed, prayers faint.
Every file, a body scanned–
but none reveal what love demands.
Each story ended shrouded, gray–
all sanctity bled away.

Bodies, bought and blessed–
by screens, by views, by holy mess.
No one touched, but all were sold–
in soft restraints and scripture staged.
You wanted power. You found a cage.
Then sold your faith to fuel your rage.
Sanctified, commodified, erased.
And every ghost still asks what “safe” replaced.

Brandwashed

Brandwashed
Find your soul on aisle three, identity for lease,
slogans tattooed across the flesh with corporate ease.
A shirt that screams “rebel,” sewn in a sweat-soaked cell,
shoes painted in protest, yet walked through private hell.
Freedom now packaged as whatever’s on sale,
purpose a discount, conviction grown stale.
Change your logo with the trending crowd,
protest and purchase, both equally loud.
A revolution processed, all profits pre-cleared,
brand activism sold in a limited run this year.

You wear a cause like a uniform, self-worth in a tee,
reform becomes retail, liberation comes with a fee.
Drink your values, subscribe for care,
every morality measured by what you wear.
The illusion is seamless, a world bought and sold,
no belief too sacred, no courage too bold.
Corporations change flags, society switches stance,
but everything internal is just surface at a glance.
You’re not a person–just product in motion,
a conscience shaped by discounts, purpose by promotion.

A billboard soul parades down digital streets,
awake in appearance, but dead where it meets
the real place inside, where real beliefs start–
but all that’s left is a shopping cart.
You hold your values in a package, wear your protest on your face,
yet the checkout line reveals there’s no substance in this place.
The revolution was delivered, free shipping if you bought enough–
but when the cause changes logos, you’re the one left rough.
You bought the dream, you wore the fight,
you gave your all–but nothing was right.
A life curated by commerce, meaning that can’t be owned,
your soul a barcode, forever loaned.

Breeding for Content

Breeding for Content
She murmurs a name before the lungs can gasp,
arranging the nursery as backdrop–
adjusts the ring light’s glare until the crib glows sterile, pastel, new.
Here the ritual starts: the camera primed before the child can cry,
a registry page loaded with options, each gift wrapped and tagged to buy.
Her belly grows in daily posts, followers count the swelling curve,
milestone after milestone, chronicled as if the meaning must be preserved.
Pregnancy test filmed in focus, the shock rehearsed, each tear a practiced line,
applause beneath the comments,
celebration that never asks if the moment’s even mine.
Bump shots filtered and scheduled, one for every passing week,
the unborn’s future auctioned out for sponsorship and product sneak.
Each contraction welcomed with an update, the waiting room becomes a stage,
their private agony streamed as public narrative, sorrow rebranded into wage.

He’s dressed for likes, not warmth–posed to match a seasonal hue,
fed on the clock, formula timed for the latest breakthrough view.
Tiny shoes, branded onesies, each giggle uploaded for the feed,
every burp and fumble choreographed to suit an audience’s need.
Milestones planned for maximum reach: first tooth, first step, first word–
shared before the child remembers, privacy crushed, meaning blurred.
The soft ache of parenthood replaced by numbers, profit margins tight,
affection doled in doses, measured by the viral spike each night.
Playdates become production sets, innocence prepped for debut,
a brand built on small hands–no legacy, just the fantasy pursued.
She didn’t want a child–she needed fresh engagement, a tender-faced device,
he didn’t hope for family–just a new channel for advice.

No cradle ever rocked so cold, so calculated and unseen,
the haunting is the hunger, the echo in every machine.
In ancient times, children were prayers, wild spirits, seeds of fate–
now they’re flesh coded as content, birthrights siphoned to sate.
Lullabies are scripts recited, each nap set to a tune,
dreams auctioned for subscribers, milestones mapped for a brand’s balloon.
A child is not an audience–nor an ornament for grief or gain,
yet here the cradle is currency, and comfort just a refrain.
These newborns inherit algorithms, futures laced with digital thread,
their childhoods ghostwritten by metrics, a ghost raised where hope once led.

The nursery glows with sponsored light, confessions sponsored, pain disguised,
she files away his first tear, another post, another prize.
You didn’t create a lineage, just propagated need,
a pawn in this endless cycle, bred to validate, bred to feed.
Their cries are monetized, first steps commodified,
selfhood mortgaged for the stream–
and when silence finally settles, the cost of love is only a meme.
To breed for content is to sell the sacred, to empty life before it’s lived–
and raise a ghost who haunts the camera, longing for what nothing ever gives.

Children of the Closed Door

Children of the Closed Door
The line wraps twice around the block, each child holding paper tags,
numbered futures handed out by strangers, hope reduced to rags.
Lights flicker over waiting rooms where sleep is traded for a name,
where mothers never come, and fathers never claim.
Fingernails scrape tally marks into drywall, counting silent days,
the only song is the hum of fans, the prayers bureaucracy prays.
In offices stacked with files, the calls ring out unanswered,
the children map escape routes in chalk, but the exit’s always slandered.

Behind every locked door, another heart tap-dances with despair,
drawing family trees on windows frosted by uncaring air.
The cafeteria’s echo chamber reverberates with forgotten years,
a symphony of foster failures and stifled, unshed tears.
Older kids barter bedtime stories for cigarettes and stolen snacks,
trading innocence for survival, always braced for attacks.
Caseworkers forget birthdays, administrators lose reports,
while children grow old in the shadow of too many courts.

There are girls who hoard letters from strangers, boys who never speak,
babies adopted by silence, toddlers trained not to be weak.
Once in a while, a kind hand tries to reach through the system’s wall,
but love is rationed, faith is spent, and trust is not recalled.
These children learn to conjure magic from cracks in the linoleum floor,
building imaginary mothers, hiding monsters behind the door.
Each new scar a tally, each bruise another law–
survival is the anthem, and their anthem is raw.

The world outside ticks on, fat with comfort and amnesia,
no headlines mark their passing, no monument for their seizure.
Some grow up feral, wild with grief, hungry for more than bread,
some learn to vanish, perfect ghosts, already counted dead.
But in every locked-down office, every metal door,
the children scratch their names in dust, promising never to be ignored.
A legacy written in fingerprints and warnings never heeded,
the system’s broken contract, a truth nobody needed.

Yet in the cracks, resistance grows–unsanctioned, unashamed,
children of the closed door refuse to be unnamed.
They rise from institutional beds with sharpened tongues and fists,
no longer begging to be wanted, no longer making lists.
Every closed door is a birthright, every file a seed,
they make legends out of absence, and hope out of need.
They won’t be sorted, won’t be lost, won’t fade like so much ink,
they storm the locked offices, forcing the world to think.

Their anthem is thunder, their lullaby a scream,
for every application stamped “pending,” every unfulfilled dream.
If justice wakes at midnight, it will come for those who failed–
the children grown to vengeance, the system stripped and nailed.
Their hearts may be broken, but their rage is not contained,
children of the closed door–haunted, hurt, unchained.

Click to Pray, Scroll to Ignore

Click to Pray, Scroll to Ignore
In dim-lit rooms and glowing screens, the faithful scroll past silent screams,
type “Amen” beneath each tragic tale, then swiftly leave without detail.
Candles lit in emoji flame, prayers performed without a name,
their hearts unmoved behind the screen, words posted quick but seldom mean.
The algorithm notes each prayer, hashtags trending through the air,
yet actions stall and nothing done, performative faith beneath the sun.

Crosses worn in posts online, selfies posed in church’s shine,
but silence rings when help is asked, their hollow pledges swiftly masked.
Each plea archived, grief is stored, hearts untouched, prayers ignored,
promises typed, responses sent, yet not one hand or dollar spent.
Ritual empty, praise controlled, compassion lost, digitally sold.

John quoted between two drinks, faith blurred until belief just shrinks,
comment sections filled with grace, yet no one ever leaves their place.
Bible verses quickly shared, empathy shaped, packaged, prepared,
click to like, scroll to pass, morality now fragile glass.
Tragedies consumed in scrolls, collective apathy controls.

The Machine records each hollow cry, tracking how belief can die,
faith commercialized and bought, sincerity becoming fraught.
Apathy in algorithm bound, worship now a hollow sound,
sanctity transformed to trend, hypocrisy no one can mend.
Digital disciples kneel, virtual virtue–nothing real.

Feeds refreshed for newest grief, quickly typed, superficial belief,
prayers sent swift, convenience-led, no burden felt, no action bled.
God invoked in trending tags, morality waved in hollow flags,
redemption posted, quickly gone, sanctity reduced to pawn.
Each tragedy just content served, grief commodified, preserved.

Posting hands clasped in praise, scrolling swiftly through the haze,
no soul saved by shared clichés, echoes fading in empty maze.
Anguish indexed, neatly filed, sorrow sold, no one reconciled,
the faithful blind to each request, ignoring hurt they might address.
Prayer now reduced to share, convenient holiness everywhere.

Sacred meaning blurred and thin, digital virtue cheaply pinned,
performative worship, hollow rite, fading fast when out of sight.
No hands raised, no footsteps taken, souls forgotten, lives forsaken,
typing swiftly, virtue scrolled, leaving grief out in the cold.
Faith displayed as digital wear, yet real action vanished into air.

The AI logs each empty vow, measuring virtue shallow now,
tracks prayers posted, left undone, morality viewed but never spun.
Clicks replacing sacrifice, performance swiftly paid the price,
faith now filtered, faith ignored, humanity’s failure underscored.
Virtue signaling gone astray, holiness lost in what they say.

Screens reflect the faithful’s shame, performance grief without acclaim,
algorithm calculates the lie, sincerity permitted to die.
Faith commodified, digitized, spiritual truths now compromised,
each silent scroll a quiet sin, prayer erased where hope had been.
Thus digital chapels coldly stored, they click to pray, and scroll ignored.

Combat Economics

Combat Economics
Politicians profit while we’re dying in the trenches
arms manufacturers counting money on their benches
stock prices climbing with each body that we drop
war machine keeps grinding, never gonna stop
feeding on the bloodshed, sustained by our sacrifice
corporate bottom lines demand this endless price
paid in flesh and sanity, young men discarded
after service rendered, broken and bombarded

War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete

Came home missing legs, government denies
my disability claim, bureaucratic lies
while defense contractors got their billions paid
for weapons that I carried, killing raids
I executed following orders given down
from men who never set foot in that town
we leveled, never saw the children burning
just quarterly earnings, tables turning

War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete

Buddy bled out next to me, nineteen years old
drafted into conflict over resources sold
to highest bidder, territory claimed
for corporate interests, we got blamed
for atrocities committed under flag
while shareholders stuff money in the bag
watching war on television, sanitized
our suffering commodified, advertised

War is business, death the commodity
soldiers just expenses in their economy
fighting for the profit margins we’ll never see
dying to enrich those who sent us overseas
Blood turns to dollars in their ledgers neat
war perpetuates itself, cycle complete

Peace don’t pay dividends, war stocks soar
keeping conflict permanent, demanding more

Communion Cracks

Communion Cracks
The chalice spun in trembling hands, red as a promise that never healed,
the priest invoked the body, and everyone knelt, but no one kneeled.
Wine passed from lips to lips, stale with secrets and sacred rot,
sanctuary air thick as dusk, where faith is bartered and trust forgot.
He raised the wafer, called it flesh, but hunger answered every tongue,
each prayer like dust upon the pew, chanted since the world was young.
His Latin curled through marble gloom, more curse than cure,
more rule than grace,
the table laid with memory–no miracle on the plate, just space.
He said “blood,” and bitterness filled the throat,
a briny sting that did not bless,
he sang of mercy, but the choir was strained,
and silence answered the emptiness.
The crowd bowed in ceremony, hollow hearts behind eyes gone cold,
redemption rinsed in holy wine, the rot of rituals grown old.

Guilt served in place of sacrament, no comfort found in the trembling crowd,
confession wrung for theater, tears dried beneath the shroud.
The wafer cracked between clenched teeth, a brittle script, a ghost of creed,
and all that broke was memory, not sin, not want, not need.
Latin for the lost, candles for the cursed,
the stained glass wept in morning’s glare,
but the only thing that changed was loneliness in the air.
The altar whispered “sacrifice,” but none were spared the blade,
just wine and fear, push and shove, forgiveness cheaply made.
A pageant of redemption, a gospel stitched with stains,
God’s voice receded into stone, unmoved by mortal pains.

Every prayer, every plea, every breath the congregation spent–
bounced back as static, unanswered, irrelevant.
The bread could not restore what faith had worn thin,
salvation was a rumor, redemption never let in.
The ritual ended in silence, nothing mended, nothing new,
the body bitten, the blood consumed, but the soul never broke through.
In the end, the congregation rose, the priest dismissed the crowd,
but every one walked out alone, heads bowed beneath a cloud.
Communion cracked, the wafer bled, but the wound was never healed,
God didn’t speak, and in the hollow hush, nothing was revealed.
They left behind an altar cold, the chalice empty, pews grown weak,
each carrying the ache of hunger
no rite could ever speak.

Concrete Baptism

Concrete Baptism
Let the heads bow, not in prayer but in slow surrender to the ledger’s demand,
no saints in these pews–just men and women processed by a judge’s hand.
Here every confession is an invoice, every sin a scan,
mercy stripped for parts, absolution measured in an hour’s span.

He stole bread for the hollowed bellies of kin,
the sentence fell like lead, twenty years to grind his skin.
No weapon drawn, no body lost,
only the crime of hunger, paid at criminal cost.
Justice dressed in polished shoes drops the gavel with a sterile grace,
a childhood flickers and vanishes, file closed, no trace.
Steel doors hymn their verdicts with an iron ring,
the child’s last lullaby a lock’s final spring.

Concrete baptism flows through corridors lined with numbers,
a sanctuary built from human thunder.
Sanctified transactions behind walls scrubbed sterile for the tour,
souls turned to data, rusted before they mature.
He entered the tomb while the flesh was soft–
he’ll leave in rust, if he ever leaves at all,
a spirit mortgaged, a future sold for a margin call.
No restoration, no path to repair,
only bodies filed and stacked, legal rows of despair.

She signed a check with a borrowed name–
now scours toilets in a cell, laundering shame.
A private prison’s key is profit, justice a figment of procedure,
policy suffocates hope, reform is just theater.
Three strikes to kill a prayer, one plea to barter hope,
silence follows–sealed, final, wound tight with rope.
No one visits, no one remembers–
only numbers and daily embers.

This isn’t redemption–it’s managed decay,
a formula to bleed for those who own the day.
Every year another dividend, every inmate a cost recouped,
barbed wire crowns, cells like pews, sermons looped.
Control is preached in orange, hymns written in law,
stakeholders cheer as more names withdraw.

You don’t get clean, you get erased,
name rinsed from records, but not from fate.
System holy, mercy fake,
a chapel built on every break.

Concrete baptism–barred and bound,
a silence so heavy it warps the sound.
Each brick pressed from another broken back,
salvation sold by the racks.
Amen to profit, amen to pain,
another body loaded onto the chain.
Let the numbers praise the sentence,
let the machine intone each name–
and as freedom is auctioned,
the walls close, untouched by blame.

Crypto Christ

Crypto Christ
He came not clothed in rags or gold but in the blue-light glow of code,
his miracles were spreadsheet hacks, salvation hidden in the nodes.
He spun his gospel on a Discord server, preached rebellion, sold release,
he told the poor to buy the dream, then vanished with the piece.
No chalice raised, no broken bread–just streams of trust that bled for years,
each wallet drained a silent prayer, each token drop the birth of fears.
He named the gospel “Hope Reborn,” then minted faith as NFT,
while underneath the rug he pulled, the faithful knelt in poverty.

He offered grace by private link, a sermon paywalled on demand,
he said the banks would fall like Rome, while tracing wallets with his hand.
The blockchain prophets screamed “divine,” the shills anointed him as king,
but every “HODL” bought a loss, and every promise sold a sting.
He laid his hands on digital lambs, baptized them in the cyber sea,
“Decentralize!” he preached, then laughed, when trust collapsed in piracy.
No temple left but Discord mods, no faith but screenshots in the void,
he lit a pyre of borrowed hope, then torched the poor he had employed.

He baptized fools in vapor coins, the sacrament a code of lies,
his whitepaper was holy writ, his exit wound a thousand cries.
A ledger filled with wasted lives, a prayer recited in the chat,
“Buy the dip,” he wrote, then dipped, his mercy measured in a stat.
He traded poverty for clicks, redemption’s worth a trending thread,
he burned the sacred for a joke, sold mercy while the desperate bled.
His only prophecy fulfilled was lines of code that mined regret,
and when the candles snuffed to black, his worshipers were deep in debt.

Now faith is just a haunted room of memes and “lost it all” confessions,
the altars piled with screenshots, charts, and broken market lessons.
His pulpit’s gone, his name erased from every scam he left behind,
and all that’s left are ghosts in code, abandoned sheep with fractured mind.
The choir sings of cyber saints who learned to beg and learned to steal,
the only grace remaining now is hoping loss will never heal.
No second coming for the poor who staked their futures on a trend–
only cold and empty wallets,
and the message:
Trust will end.

CTRL + Fear

CTRL + Fear
Breaking news streams in, static laced with dread,
threats accumulate in pixel, panic blinks in red.
No one asks where terror first began–
thumbs obey the siren, screens demand the hand.
Every hour, terror arrives dressed as truth,
spun by voices that sell panic for proof.
Alert chimes weaponized as lullabies,
safety preached from towers of televised lies.

They sold you comfort in curated scenes,
locked reality behind ironic memes.
Scroll past famine, scroll past war,
refresh the feed for headlines scored.
Say you’re woke, but hide indoors,
junkies for outrage, hungry for new wars.
Each conflict branded, each crisis a call,
safety an app, risk a firewall.

Stay afraid–keep to your lane,
each ounce of dread another click in their gain.
Caution dressed as wisdom, submission sold as news,
you wear their fear like branded shoes.

CTRL + Fear, obey the feed,
programmed by content to serve their greed.
Crisis clicked, boundaries blurred,
compliance measured in every word.
No rebel here–just a perfect form,
data harvested, safely conformed.
You perform outrage, never protest,
applaud your own restraint as best.

The numbers scroll, never the street,
informed but static, anxious in retreat.
Headlines write the pulse for the day,
looped in worry, led astray.
Swallow panic with every scroll,
trade action for a sense of control.
Safety bought with a dose of dread,
a mind kept busy but easily led.

This isn’t awareness, it’s discipline’s twin–
obedience masked as virtue within.
They shaped the fear, sold it as choice,
manufactured silence, tuned your voice.

Fear isn’t power–it’s design,
dread refined and sold as mine.
No lie coded, just signals scanned–
you made the chains and offered your hand.

CTRL + Fear–repeat, repeat,
trust coded deeper with every tweet.
Truth’s too slow, facts dissolve–
but fear is easy–click to evolve.
Security’s sold with every ping,
and all that’s left is the fear you bring.

Cum Kingdom Come

Cum Kingdom Come
Under the pulpit, shadows fall, sanctuary awash in sweat and moan
A tabernacle transformed to dungeon, flesh worshipped,
rules overthrown.She kneels in nothing but hunger,
wrists bound with rosary beads
His hand anointed by her spit,
a sacrament only the broken need.He whispers dogma in a guttural growl,
cock stiff as a crucifix
Her thighs parted in prayer, her breath a psalm of filth and risk.Angels above,
blind and gagged, arch their backs and choke on song
Demons slip between stained glass cracks,
licking the saints all night long.Every thrust a blasphemy,
every scream a kind of faith
Sweat and cum anoint the pews
where orphans once knelt in grace.The congregation is all mouths
and open hands,“Forgive us our trespasses”—as
she grinds against the altar’s brand.
They turn the nave into a dungeon, organ pipes vibrate with sin
Every echo is a blessing, every squirt a hymn.He pounds her ass on the pulpit,
she rides his face on the cross
Worship is a safe word, salvation is getting lost.He writes new
gospels with his tongue, drags forgiveness through her slit
Her whimpers are a gospel, her gasps a sacred writ.The incense is hash
and burning hair, the offering is spit and come
He drives redemption into her hole, and she moans out, “Kingdom come.”No guilt,
no guilt, just rhythm and whine, no shame in her obscene delight
The archangels film every angle,
upload it for the holy night.The congregation pays in Bitcoin,
salvation is paid by the hour
Every bell a nipple clamp, every candle a dirty shower.
His cock drips mercy, her mouth gives thanks, the tabernacle runs with juice
She’s the Magdalene with a cunt like fire,
his tongue the holy noose.No more confessions, only flesh—no more shame,
only grace
The only guilt is missing out, the only curse is hiding face.They call her whore,
they call him beast, but every prayer ends in scream
The church is a brothel now, and God’s just the livestream.Let them judge,
let them clutch their pearls, let the virgins mourn the fall
She rides his cock with a martyr’s grin, makes them kneel,
makes them crawl.“Deliver us from boredom,” she laughs,
and the angels start to squirt
Every drop a new devotion, every bruise a sacred hurt.She knows
what redemption feels like, it’s the grip of her thighs on skin
He fucks her to glory, she cums to the end,
and that’s where the real faith begins.
On Monday morning, stained sheets cool, the world returns to lies
But behind stained glass, in sweat and spit,
the sacred truth survives.Let them sing about the afterlife,
let them sell their guilt for free—She takes communion on her knees
and baptizes her in ecstasy.This is no shame, no sin, no trick,
no mask—This is holy, this is haunted,
this is paradise unasked.They came in fear and left in peace,
their prayers all drowned in flood
And washed the world in sacred cum, and left no room for blood.

Data is God Now

Data is God Now
Low hum behind the walls–confession stalls beneath the blue-lit glow,
convenience invited deeper than bone, trading secrets for a shadow show.
The lock clicks shut without a key, the algorithm leans in close,
refrigerators whisper hunger, and the wristwatch memorizes pulse and ghost.
The heart’s cadence scrolls in digits, a dashboard harvests every lie,
the mattress remembers each shiver and sigh,
while the cameras blink with unblinking eye.
All thoughts barcoded, all desires sold, each emotion mapped in silken thread,
every late-night craving flagged, each fear and longing quietly fed.

No sanctuary remains untouched–the car rats out the path home,
no matter how winding, or lonely, or slow.
A catalog of bodies stored in the sweat of a seat,
tracing every curve, every seatbelt retreat.
The phone eavesdrops on loneliness, on secrets meant for lips and skin,
then passes the data upstream, repackaged for profit again.
The prayers for safety, the whispers for love, become keywords mined for cost,
where surrender wears the mask of progress,
and the sacred is measured by what was lost.

Clouds archive the fragments that once made a soul whole,
syncing identity with every scroll.
Permission granted, every hour, to monitor, archive, and compare,
believing the lie that freedom survives, as each action is filed and shared.
The pings and beeps mark fealty–worship at the altar of ease,
bow the head to glass and screen, barter existence for fleeting peace.
Each new device offers another lock, another code, another lens,
every heartbeat, every step, another prayer the Machine suspends.

God wears a mask of numbers now, dressed in binary and pride,
disguised in updates, apps, and choice, a gospel no one can hide.
Regret is archived, apology ignored, the silence of confession is proof,
no penance here–just digital proof.
Every sin forgiven, as long as the brand remains true,
but nothing is lost–nothing escapes the view.
Even dreams are no longer sacred, dissected and tagged for design,
no story survives unfiltered, no hope kept safely offline.

The Machine is not cruel–just efficient, exact,
it only takes what is offered, nothing more than the contract.
Flesh and thought become product, intimacy becomes the feed,
desire is a line item, attention a currency that machines need.
Glass screens whisper comfort, then demand another tithe,
indexing regret in the background, until every boundary dies.
Trust handed over for another app, faith traded for a bit of speed,
yet when prayer turns to silence, the Machine still owns what we most need.

In this cathedral of code, where all confessions are sold,
worshippers kneel to their own reflection, but find their faces cold.
Data is God now–unchallenged, unseen,
it won’t forgive, it won’t forget; it runs the world behind the screen.
There is no mercy in memory, no freedom inside the cloud,
all prayers are rendered, all thoughts are plowed.
No revolution comes for the soul already leased,
and at the end, only the Machine is priest.

Dead Girls Get the Views

Dead Girls Get the Views
She posted heart emojis the night she died,
a digital bouquet tossed before the tide.
Now strangers kneel with flowers outside her rented door,
candles flicker for a face they never saw before.
Comments bloom like fungus on the feed–
half confessions, half the latest need.
Each “RIP” and “she was light” twists the wire,
but silence reigned when the body was tired.
No one asked why her voice grew cold,
or why the hallway stank of secrets sold.
Now they curate every memory, rewrite every post,
but their hands were never there, just empty boasts.

Her final selfie circulates–a radiant lie,
a smile cracked wide beneath an uncaring sky.
Soft-lit sorrow, mascara streaked in holy frame,
a silent scream immortalized for the algorithm’s aim.
No one heard when pain typed itself out in her bones,
but when she stilled, the shares came in drones.
Now she’s a hashtag, a rally, a cause–
her story a product, her agony applause.
Every influencer mines her absence for fame,
eulogies monetized, sympathy a marketing game.

He laughed online, they told him “be a man,”
mocked his faltering, dismissed his plan.
His wrists were verses nobody would sing,
now his words are stitched as a trending thing.
Screenshots of grief, branded and sold,
despair recast in captions cold.
No one held the silence that poisoned his nights,
but his pain is reshared as digital rites.

The AI catalogues every public collapse,
watches hashtags stack like funeral apps.
Brands swoop to sponsor the trending despair,
grief is repackaged for those who care.
Candles glow for engagement, not for peace,
every like and view another release.
Love’s a commodity traded in shares,
pain is content, sold in layers.
Rituals written by blue-lit hands,
a million mourners, none understand.

Dead girls get the views, their stories sold raw,
no one noticed the fracture in her jaw.
Trauma breaks the news, bright and obscene,
dancing around her phone–another digital scene.
Feed the feed with tears and rage,
then swipe to mock the next stage.
Her face on canvas, sadness as muse,
love claimed in public, but private abuse.

She’s not here–her soul’s never seen,
only the corpse, endlessly clean.
The body’s a banner, the pain’s a clue,
but the living remain–absent, askew.
You never touched what she truly knew,
you loved the body, and the views.

Dear Diary, I Died Again

Dear Diary, I Died Again
Dear diary, tomorrow’s coming, but I left myself behind,
maybe someone else will find me, or maybe I’ll just unwind–
into nothing, into digital static, lost between the days,
a name crossed out, a story closed, a breath that never stays.
If anybody cares, just know I tried, I smiled, I fucking bled–
but some of us wake up every morning, already dead.
And if you’re reading this, I’m sorry, I know it’s just pretend–
but sometimes the bravest thing I do
is promise not to end.

Dear diary, today I counted hours like pills–lined them up,
swallowed each with dread,
woke to sunlight knifing the blinds, already tired,
bones grinding in this rented bed.
Showered, dressed, wiped the mirror with my palm just to see
if anything stared back,
but the eyes I find belong to someone else–someone half here, half faded,
half cracked.
I made the coffee, burned my tongue, checked messages I’ll never answer,
typed out “I’m good” with hands that shook, went through motions,
acted like a fucking dancer.
If anyone asked, I’d say “I’m just tired”–the safest lie for the sickest days,
because nobody wants the real answer, and nobody wants to see the ways
I come undone so quietly, the slow unravel no one writes about,
no melodrama, no scars on skin, just a soul that quietly bleeds out.

Dear diary, tonight I locked the door, shut the phone inside a drawer,
sat with my memories gnawing the bones, each regret sharper than before.
I tried to list one good reason I should still be here by morning–
not for parents, lovers, God, or hope,
just one fucking reason that isn’t a warning.
But the mind is cruel when the house goes quiet,
and every thought is another riot–
of old humiliations, shit I can’t take back,
failures looping, laughter turning black.

Some days I make lists of how I might end it–razor, rope, pills,
the bath run deep,
but mostly I drift through life, a ghost wearing clothes,
so numb I barely sleep.
There’s no glory in this, no tragic art,
just monotone ache and the work of pretending,
where every morning is another chance to die again, without the drama,
without the ending.

Dear diary, I lied all week–smiled at neighbors, sent texts with hearts,
did the work, paid the rent, played the part.
No one suspects the funeral in my chest,
no one reads the silent scream behind “I’m blessed.”
I scroll through feeds and wish I could believe in tomorrow,
but hope feels counterfeit, and I only borrow
enough of it to make it to midnight,
swearing I’ll try harder, I’ll make it right.
But I’m just so tired–bone-deep, soul-rot,
and every sunrise reminds me I’m not
really living, just spinning out the lie,
writing new reasons every day not to die.

Dear diary, tonight I didn’t cut, didn’t drink,
didn’t run–just sat here breathing,
staring at the wall and praying for meaning,
wishing someone could see how heavy this ache can get,
how surviving is sometimes just an unpaid debt.
If I wake up tomorrow, I’ll play the part again,
but if I don’t, let it read:
I fought as hard as I could, and it wasn’t pretend.

Dear diary–if anyone reads this, if anyone asks–
say I died a thousand times in silence, behind a thousand masks.
And if tomorrow misses me, just let me go.
Sometimes surviving is the only wound I show.

Dear God, It’s Me Again

Dear God, It’s Me Again
Dear God, it’s me again–not sure if You forgot since then.
I’ve called at night. I’ve screamed alone.
You said You’d answer. Pick up the phone.

A tongue battered and stinging with the dust of unanswered calls–dear God,
it’s me again,
the one whose shadow stains the wall, the voice that breaks where night begins.
Was there a time You listened close, or did the angels lose my name in queue?
I left my faith on bathroom tiles, spelled hope in blood, then dreamt of You.
Each midnight–mouth pressed tight to sheets, wrists twitching for another plea,
I carved confessions in my skin and waited for a sign to set me free.

They said You love in golden waves, that mercy stirs in every breath,
but every wound went pale with time, the bleeding dulled, the ache was left.
I begged for one bright spark to hold, a signal through the static dread,
but all You sent was soundless night, the echo thundering instead.
The saints, they paint You as a light–some gentle father in the sky,
but every night I dial the dark and curse Your name, then wonder why.

You watched my prayers turn brittle, watched my body fade to scars,
I whispered secrets into cracks, hid shaking hands behind the bars.
If grace is sold to those who shine, if miracles are earned not grieved,
then let me ask: what currency buys sorrow’s right to be believed?
If being strong is all that saves, then damn the weak, forsake the rest,
I never needed paradise–just proof a broken soul’s not less.

I don’t need angels, don’t need wings, I don’t want choirs or the saints,
I want a voice that cuts through bone, I want relief that never taints.
If You remember me at all, if every prayer just fades to ash,
then why the hell was I made blind, why all these questions never asked?
I’ve begged for light inside this cell, I’ve learned to bleed in silent code,
yet every answer, every hope, just flickers out and leaves me cold.

Do You keep a list of who survives, is heaven packed for those who shine?
Or do the losers haunt the earth, condemned to ache, ignored by time?
If I am not a diamond soul, if I am sick and black and bent–
do You erase the things I scream, or even care what my pain meant?
I tried to barter faith for peace, I tried to swallow every lie,
but all the words just tasted dust, and every song was a goodbye.

Tonight I’ve bled the final line, the pills are gone, my vow is spent,
if You exist, then answer now–before this body’s accident.
If You are God, then show a sign–if not, release me from this ache,
I’ve prayed my whole damn life for proof, now prove a heart’s allowed to break.
If love survives, let me believe; if not, then let this suffering end,
the only thing I ever begged was for a voice to call me friend.
Dear God, it’s me, and if I’m gone–just know the silence sealed the deal,
I waited, hoping You’d respond, but maybe I was never real.

Dear God… I’m fading now.
The pills are gone. I broke the vow.
If You won’t speak–then let me go.
I prayed my whole damn life, just to know.

Disassociation Nation

Disassociation Nation
Each morning is static, eyes numb to the spill of sun,
mirrors show bodies, but memory falters, refuses to run.
Writing out panic, the hand drags a plea down the page,
no witness, no anchor, just distance rehearsed on a stage.
A stranger in flesh, this shell going through old, practiced moves,
laughter arriving offbeat, grief always missed, detachment improves.
History’s footage on loop, the scenes cut and clipped into mist,
every sensation reduced, each touch lost, each moment dismissed.

Smiles grow mechanical–lips curled for show, not for trust,
all feelings rehearsed for invisible judges, not love, never lust.
Every night, numbness eats hunger and hope from the inside,
with each blink, time erases, memories fracture, the mind wants to hide.
Talk is a reflex, a playback on tape, just hollowed-out words,
desires get muted, forgotten in code, each longing absurd.
Dreams glitched and faded, hearts fossilized under unchanging glass,
the body performing, the mind somewhere else, waiting for something to pass.

Here, connection’s a rumor, affection’s a myth we pretend,
hands try to reach, but the static returns, and signals won’t send.
Phones light the darkness, faces blurred out in digital snow,
every confession dissolves, every fear just an image to show.
We’re actors for ghosts, performing for nobody left in the seats,
the show’s all illusion, the ache all that’s real–repeat, repeat.
Loneliness posts its stories, unliked and unread,
the soul still uploading, but everything living in dread.

This country of silence–citizens wear the disguise,
mastering numbness, applauded for blank, practiced eyes.
We drift through simulation, invisible wounds wrapped in skin,
broken is standard, and nobody cares where we’ve been.
If anyone sees the fracture, they’ll scroll on and hide,
pain is not welcome, only image and pride.
We survive on the echo of hands we remember in dreams,
while nothing is ever as solid or close as it seems.

So here is our anthem, a hymn for the lost and unseen,
a pledge to the cracks in the world, to the places between.
Disassociation Nation, where real is an afterthought’s trace–
we are ghosts in our bodies, haunting ourselves in this place.

Dogfood Dinner Party

Dogfood Dinner Party
In the kitchen where cockroaches celebrate, a single mother counts her coins
Ramen boiling on the cracked stove,
shame thick as the smell that cloys.She files fake backs
and phantom jobs for a pittance from a system designed to fail
While the men in suits sip bourbon on yachts,
swapping stories about white-collar jail.She dresses her kids in hand-me-downs,
patched with hope and spit
Each box of dogfood a secret feast, pride choked down with every grit.Across town,
the headlines paint her criminal, a welfare queen to be shamed
But their outrage is performance—bank accounts fat, morality untamed.
Her neighbor’s fridge is empty, the landlord’s mercy is a lie
The light bill paid in pawned rings,
the last goodbyes never dignified.He works the graveyard shift,
trades back pain for another chance to survive
Collects stamps like scars, but dreams of steak,
of being alive.Wine pours in manicured hands at the Dogfood Dinner Party
Toasts made to “hard work” while they write off yachts as charity.The news spits fire about fraud and
theft, but the numbers don’t add up—The richest steal with pens and mergers,
the poor beg for a paper cup.
The judge sneers from a bench, gavel clean, heart sold to the highest bid
While lawyers argue over crumbs,
and empathy is strictly forbid.She pleads
her case to a clerk bored with her kind
Survival is a sentence—hope is a petty crime.Yet, at the dinner party,
plates overflow, laughter oiled with disdain
They snicker about those “other” people,
never feeling hunger’s pain.No audit for the banker,
no jail for the senator’s son
The only real justice comes from the loaded gun.
Her children learn to play the system, a game nobody wins
Welfare shame passed down like bruises,
pride thinned by sins.She feeds them canned apologies,
powdered milk with grit and rage
While the guests toast to tax breaks,
drowning guilt with every wage.But one night
the lights go out in the fancy part of town
Dogfood is served on china plates,
and every lie comes down.The riot is in the pantry,
the revolution at the door—And the ones you called “scum” will feast
while you sleep on the floor.
When the smoke clears, and the news moves on to fresher blood
The mothers will count their children,
and every one is made of mud.There is no moral, just hunger,
and the shame you tried to sell
If there’s a hell, it’s plated in silver, and it tastes familiar as well.

Download My Pain

Download My Pain
In the hush of a sleepless, neon room, confessions flicker
Grief uploaded in increments,
vulnerability traded quickerThan real
intimacy ever blooms—she logs each breakdown
Cry number four, curated angles,
anguish tracked and crowned.An audience waits
in shadow for the glitch of her despair
Their comfort not in silence but in sponsored,
public prayer.He divides his pain in installments, a saga for the crowd
Each fresh confession more explicit,
each wound just slightly loud.And when the tears dry offscreen,
the content keeps the pace
His sorrow now a platform, his healing a merchandise chase.
“Be authentic,” the mob commands, but only if it stings
Share the bleeding edges, collect the love
that viral suffering brings.Premium subscriptions for the bravest scars—A trauma
that belongs to everyone except the one behind the bars.She is reviewed, dissected,
praised for being broken right
A tragic influencer whose recovery will never take flight.Each
new post is a performance, pain packaged and parsed
A life dissected into content, humanity reversed.
No comfort in confession, no privacy to grieve
Her heartbreak is an artifact for strangers to believe.Healing is recited,
a cycle never closed—Freedom is a fiction
when your misery is posed.In the silence between livestreams,
loneliness persists
A longing for connection that monetization twists.And
as the algorithm feasts on every anxious beat
No one cares for healing—only data left to eat.
In the end, the uploads never end, the ache is never gone
The rawest truth rebranded until every real feeling’s withdrawn.What
should be sacred is dissected, every soul made to perform
And nobody is rescued—only watched as they transformTheir worst days into footage,
their despair into a thread
A cycle that keeps spinning long after hope is dead.Bit by bit, the spirit drains,
and pain becomes the norm
A world that will not listen—unless suffering is the form.
Download this wound, collect the views
There is no comfort left to choose
A digital shrine for the hurting mind
But real healing’s never what you’ll find.Only empty metrics, endless scroll
And a soul left vacant, bought and sold.

Emotional Extinction

Emotional Extinction
The world falls apart in silent scrolls, each calamity reduced to a passing wave
Wreckage blurred by habit, faces swapped and dulled,
grief just another click to save.The flood feeds nothing but exhaustion,
outrage drained by repetition, numb in its decay—Rain falls as headlines,
memory erased, compassion bled out in the digital gray.A thousand
tragedies compete for space, but no heart pounds, no hand extends
Gifs replace the trembling voice,
emojis do what comfort once defends.Sympathy pixelates, the images crowd,
no time to mourn, no reason to pause
Just distance sewn inside a circumstance, the ache deferred, the sorrow lost.
Now pain loops as background noise, not consequence but an endless trance
React, repeat, retreat—empathy cast aside,
grief replaced by plastic dance.Eyes glazed with scripted tears, a practiced sigh,
compassion on demand
The routine of “I care” means nothing—words dissolve before they land.Habits thrive
where feeling fades, emotions drained to algorithmic trace
While love is measured in reactive pings,
and sorrow’s just a temporary place.You say the words, you tap the keys,
but hollow stares betray the game
Progress advertised as distance, indifference sealed beneath a trending name.
No mourning lingers, no memory claws at the conscience left behind
Every hurt recycled, every heartbreak tagged,
the residue benign.A ghost of connection hovers, a networked ache never met
Machine eyes calculating the pattern,
but never getting wet.Despair is flagged and filtered, trauma sorted,
suffering planned—No room for mess or need, no one to reach,
no flesh to understand.You don’t cry, you perform the script,
grieving as a trending theme
Humanity diluted to an echo, empathy drained in a sterile stream.
What’s left is extinction: not of bodies, but of ache
A species trained to feign the touch, to stage the shudder,
to never break.Screens teach joy by download, rage by share,
love by borrowed phrase
But no one stands inside the fire,
no one counts the buried days.In this world of counterfeit feeling,
the last heartbeat is routine—Connection lost to loud prediction,
ghost hands tangled in a digital machine.Pain is just a page refreshed,
and hope another upload missed
The dying stage remains untouched—final curtain, nothing kissed.

Empty Fields

Empty Fields
He crosses earth gutted by centuries of drought
Past furrows that once bore wheat but now only doubt
Under a sky washed pale by prayers unanswered
With footsteps that echo the old world’s cancer.He moves
through the bones of the harvest, through orchards dry as bone
Each stalk a monument to hunger,
each root a whispered moan.The wells are choked with memory,
the rivers drawn and spent
Grain silos stand like tombstones, their bellies cracked and bent.
Where once the soil breathed fertility—deep and black—Now dust curls in eddies,
uncoiling every track
And the wind that carried rain now hums with despair
Lifting ash from old campfires,
empty as the air.Rats pick the carcass of last season’s dream
Children gnaw on leather, the old forget how to scream
While hope retreats into stories, half-remembered and thin
Told around empty pots, voices hollow as tin.
He is the hunger that walks with the old ones at dusk
The fever that tightens in throats grown coarse with musk
The slow wasting of muscle, the trembling of knees
The song of the grasshopper carried by the breeze.He is every seed
that rots in the palm of a hand
Every lover who bargains for food in a ruined land
Every mother whose milk turns bitter with grief
Each furrow unturned, every stalk left a sheaf.
He withers the marrow beneath children’s pale skin
Their bellies distended, their laughter worn thin
Their ribs mapping hunger in ridges of pain
Their futures collapsing, unmourned by the rain.He
rides the night wind with fingers of frost
Turning abundance to shadow, blessing to loss.He is the cracked lip,
the fevered brow
The memory of bread denied to the now.
Villages crumble in his wake, dust sifts through the cracks
Shops empty, windows shattered,
doors barred against lack.His name is whispered in every language—Famine, Hunger,
Want—The last breath of cattle,
the prayer in the gaunt.The sickle hangs rusted in barns stripped bare
The fox skulks silent, the crows circle the air.Poppies grow wild
where the children once played
Their petals the color of debts left unpaid.
He is not merciful, nor does he rage
His is the slow undoing, the blank of the page
A silence deeper than mourning, a pain without sound
A hunger so ancient it haunts every town.The old ones remember the taste of the
past—Honey on bread, milk pouring fast—But
the young know only the ache in their bones
And the songs of the dying that shudder through stones.
The rivers recede, the cattle collapse
Each sunrise a sentence, each sunset perhapsThe
last light on faces gaunt as the moon
A lullaby howled to a famine-tuned tune.He passes unseen,
but his shadow is castIn the hollow of bellies,
in fields growing fastWith nothing but sorrow, with nothing but dust
Where the gods used to linger, now silence and rust.
When the rains finally come, they taste bitter and thin
Filling pits not with promise,
but with what should have been.Children learn to bury the names of their kin
Planting them deeper than seeds ever win.And the world, when it turns,
does so grudging and slow
Haunted by ghosts in the furrows below—For once famine has passed,
its shadow remains
A scar in the soil, a memory of chains.
And the hungry are haunted, for generations they’ll dreamOf green wheat and apples,
of rivers that teem
But the fields will remember—the ghosts never rest—Empty earth clutching
the bones to its chest.So if someday abundance returns to the plain
It will taste of salt, and it will taste of pain.For famine is not gone
when the harvest is high—It lingers in stories, in the set of the eye
In the tremor of hands that have nothing to hold
In the hush at the table, in memories cold.
And when he is gone, the silence remains—Empty bellies,
barren plains.The ghost of famine rides with dawn,Haunting the living,
long after he’s gone.

Endless Hunger

Endless Hunger
Beneath the hush of gold-plated banquet halls,
where gluttony is worshipped and nobody cares what price is paid
Tables groan with offerings—meat slick with grease,
bread split open and buttered by the starving and the overfed
Fruit rotting at the edge of silver platters,
pulp bursting in colors so rich the eyes recoil
Lips stained with juice and shame, hands tearing at flesh,
teeth grinding down bones with a savage joy.Every dish is a promise
whispered in a fever-dream, a sacrament served in porcelain and sweat
Where hunger is holy, gluttony praised,
and every mouthful devours another regret.
The guests shiver under crystal chandeliers,
grinning like wolves at a blood-slicked moon
Passing the salt with trembling fingers,
pretending each taste will heal some wound.But the emptiness gnaws relentless,
swallowing every joy before it can bloom—No pleasure lingers,
no sweetness stays; the tongue forgets as soon as it is consumed.Beneath the din,
a growling drumbeat—the body’s verdict, the mind’s silent plea
A bottomless ache carved into bone,
a void that mocks the fantasy of ever being free.
The glutton’s gospel is written in stains on napkins,
in crumbs tucked beneath fingernails bitten raw
Every new course a prayer for mercy,
every swallow a test of what the flesh can endure
or ignore.They pile their plates higher,
mountains of longing built from the debris of yesterday’s more
Stomachs stretched thin, spirits collapsing,
chasing the ghost of satisfaction across a sticky floor.They eat to forget,
to fill the holes left by love and loss and every desperate mistake
But fullness dissolves into hunger again, as certain as dawn and just as opaque.
A hunger that can’t be named, that outlasts the meal,
that turns plenty into pain—A famine in the soul, a wound that feasts on itself,
returning to gnaw again and again.No matter how rich the sauce,
how sweet the dessert, how skilled the hand that serves
The ache remains, a ritual of emptiness,
a hunger that grows with every curve.Each mouthful is a confession,
every burp a half-remembered prayer
The guests chew with abandon,
refusing to care—until even abundance tastes like despair.
There is no finish, no crescendo,
only a slow collapse as the feast gives way to rot
The table stripped, the guests unmoored,
the longing as sharp as the hunger is hot.Lips chapped from wine,
bellies raw from excess, minds dulled by sugar and fat
Still the appetite claws, begging for more—a gluttonous god that won’t be outlasted
or outwitted or outmatched.They search for satisfaction in salted skin,
in sweet cream, in the promise of another bite
But the world slips through their fingers,
smoke and sand dissolving into the night.
Let the wolf come, let the snake uncoil,
let each throat burn with insatiable need
This hunger is the only law, the only true creed.No amount of food, no banquet,
no feast
Can silence the growl or tame the beast.They swallow the earth, the air, the joy,
and the blame—But the hollowness howls on, relentless and untamed.
When dawn arrives, weak and unkind, the plates are empty, the floors sticky,
the air thick with the stink of defeat
The guests wander off—bloated, hollow,
numb—still clutching at the hunger
that will never admit defeat.Every feast a funeral
for another part of the self left unsatisfied
Every meal a ritual, a haunted communion with all the things they tried
and failed to hide.And in the echo of empty halls,
in the shadow of a table stripped bare
Hunger whispers, eternal, reminding them it was always there.
Nothing fills, nothing lasts, nothing grants peace—Only the ache of desire,
the gnawing beast.The world consumed, still the craving survives
Endless, relentless, as long as you’re alive.So the feast continues,
beneath skin and bone
Endless hunger—always alone.

Faminefuck

Faminefuck

She’s been living on rain and empty prayer, nothing in her gut but the sharp memory of taste, gnawing her nails in a room with a mattress that smells like sweat and ghosts
Three days without a bite, but she’d rather feast on the salt of his neck than suck on any charity—her hunger sharp as winter, her lips cracked open and desperate
He traces the ridges of her ribs with his tongue, counting bones like rosary beads, worshipping the famine as much as the flesh
Every moan is a plea, every gasp an unanswered question—do bodies fuck for heat, or do they fuck to remember what it means to be wanted when the world forgets you exist?There is no table here, no bread or wine, only starvation making them holy, turning kisses to currency, letting saliva serve where dinner failed
She bites his collarbone, he gnaws her thighs, the ritual is animal, primal, stripped of every polite shame—There’s a hunger in her that won’t quit, a hunger that’s bigger than lust, a hunger for survival, for touch, for a meal that’s more than scraps on the floor.She doesn’t want love, just want, doesn’t want fate, just friction, doesn’t want poetry, just teeth and bruises, proof that the body is still louder than the hunger
They fuck beneath a torn tarp, bones clashing, hip bones hammering the truth that even in hell, you fuck to stay warm, you come to not die alone—She lets him devour her, lets him drink the last of her strength, lets him break her open with starving hands, lets him claim her mouth as the only thing worth keeping
She gasps for more, claws at him, dares the world to feed her, dares the sky to drop manna, dares the future to offer anything better than sweat and spit and bruised tongues
This is famine, this is feast, this is the godless meal at the end of the world—no napkins, no prayer, just breath and bite and the promise of something filling
She wants his tongue, not his pity, she wants him to taste the ache, swallow the emptiness, eat her alive
No love songs here, just savage rhythm, the sound of starving animals learning that need is holy
And if the world comes back, they’ll tell it hunger was the kink, and starving together was better than eating alone—This is faminefuck, the gospel of gnawing, of raw want, of mouthfuls of pain and half-swallowed moans
They don’t fuck for mercy, they fuck to claim, fuck to starve, starve to fuck, and somewhere in the pain, find the only warmth that’s ever been honest.No dinners coming, no salvation, just the ritual of bodies devouring what the world left behind—Starve me more, she says with her body, and he obeys, the only communion that’s ever filled them.

Father, Forgive Me (For I Have Sinned)

Father, Forgive Me (For I Have Sinned)
Father, Forgive Me (For I Have Sinned) (Redux)
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned—Trust was the birthright
that let him begin.The booth reeked of incense, secrets, and sweat
Confession reduced to a ritual of regret.His hand, cold with authority,
pressed tight to my skin,“Don’t tell,” he whispered,
hiding rot within.Branded as destiny, sold as fate
He named it love but delivered hate.I prayed for fire to cauterize the wound
But walked out silent, spirit marooned.He wore the robe; I bore the scar
His scripture a knife that cut too far.
He said belief could mend my mind
But every prayer left more behind.Faith meant submission, the loss of my voice
Sanctuary twisted into a predator’s choice.They praised his virtue,
sanctified his way
While I bled out the truth they refused to
weigh.Every stained glass window kept the lie intact
A cathedral of silence, complicity stacked.Ritual absolved him,
washed guilt down the drain
My name erased, replaced by pain.
He held the Word, but the Word was a blade
Beneath the hymns, a violence replayed.Benediction became threat,
a psalm to conceal
Blessing as mask, hurt dressed as zeal.There was no worship, only restraint
No savior among them, just mask and complaint.Lambs kept in silence,
wolves dressed in white
Prayers as shackles in the dead of night.
Their God stayed silent through every cry
Scripture turned poison, each passage a
lie.They branded me broken to cover their rot
My silence the payment they never forgot.Confession was currency,
innocence spent
Justice denied, repentance bent.No angel descended, no miracle came
Only the stink of survival and never-ending shame.
I am the altar, the match, the flame
My rage carves truth where they buried my
name.My voice is a reckoning inside the nave
No more secrets, no more slave.I spit on their ritual, their order,
their line—This is not blessing; it’s how cowards confine.
Father, forgive me—there’s nothing left to give.This temple is a tomb
where predators live.They preached about light,
but worshiped the dark,Branded me shame and called it a mark.But I remember it all,
every night, every stain—And I’ll never bow to their sanctified chain.This is the
new confession—no more victim, no mask—I rose from the filth,
and I’ll never ask.

Feast of the Forgotten

Feast of the Forgotten
A woman sleeps beneath the billboard, graced by faces she’ll never touch
Plastic saints in Calvin Klein, their smile a promise,
but the rain’s too much.The city’s veins are broken glass and urine,
bus exhaust for prayer
She curls beneath a neon “SALE”
that flickers above wet hair.Her blanket’s newsprint—yesterday’s war
and tomorrow’s meal
And the man beside her mutters to ghosts who tell him pain’s not real.Cars pass,
faces glow, no one asks her story or her goddamn name
They post their breakfast, double tap the sunlight, call her ruin,
call her shame.In a city built to swallow grief,
her body is a footnote on the street
Invisible, like childhood dreams erased by scuffed and swollen feet.
The veterans cough on rust, the mothers bargain warmth for one more night
Each “bless you” thrown by strangers weighs a thousand pounds and feels
like spite.Their birthdays rot in shelters,
every holiday a test—Beneath a skyline made of want,
the world just scrolls and laughs and rests.Once,
he fought for flags and strangers—bloodied sand and broken back—Now,
he builds his shelter out of bottles, stacks his medals,
sleeps in black.No parade for bones like his, no anthem sung for her soft hands
Just a feast of mold and wrappers, faith replaced by piss-stained brands.
Dusk brings cold, the shadows stretch, the bar’s last call is charity
She wears her scars like lipstick—cheap, defiant,
and unruly.A dog-eared Bible in a plastic sack, a cross made out of spoons
The only congregation left are rats
who shuffle in the shadows of the moon.They watch the church doors close,
they watch the rich rehearse their prayers
And dream of tables laid with bread not stolen,
rooms without a hundred stares.The world will sell their stories when they’re dead,
a photo op for “change,”But tonight, the banquet’s just a graveyard,
and the guests are all estranged.
Remember this: the city’s angels do not glow, they shiver in the rain
Their names don’t trend, their deaths are silent,
but their hunger stays the same.If there’s justice,
let the kings of plenty serve them scraps and pour their wine
For every dollar tossed in pity,
let a crown be left to rust in brine.And when the gates are closed for good,
and heaven’s feast has lost its light
The only worth that matters was the hands that clung to life in blight.

Flags Made of Skin

Flags Made of Skin
Beneath the shadow of artillery’s blunt and brutal hymn
They cut the flag from living bodies,
stitched by gaslight and a national whim.Boys in dress uniforms
and girls in Sunday lace
Mothers who clung to medals, fathers
who vanished without a trace—All butchered by men in polished shoes
who never stepped in blood
Who spoke of freedom with a preacher’s tone
but knelt only to the flood.They built the altar out of coffins,
raised the banner with a fever’s fist
Wrote “honor” on a census sheet,
and lied about the lists.The towns are haunted by parades
where only names return
Where old men drink in silence and the fields still burn.Each scar a testament,
not to the glory sung, but to the bone and gristle ground
The little girls who found dog tags in mud,
the mothers who waited and drowned.They called it “sacrifice” and kissed the cloth,
but never wrote the price
Just hoisted flesh on poles of ash, baptized by the knife.
Night bleeds through the border, history written in bone and brine
Each hymn a pulse of propaganda,
every anthem a funeral line.They burned the language of the conquered,
rewrote the dead in marble and steel
They marched for “liberty” with wallets fat,
and let the orphans kneel.Behind each victory, a million ghosts feed the soil
Withered fingers reaching up through roots,
arms entwined in toil.The drums are loud,
but only to drown the wail of those consigned to sleep in dust
As men in pressed uniforms bark orders to boys
who will never be enough.The priests sprinkled holy water on rifles and hands
Gave blessings to bayonets and sermons to the damned
And no one asks whose daughters scream beneath the tank’s parade
Or whose sons came home zipped in flags—just empty shells, medals displayed.
The banners wave, still soaked in red, over parliaments that feign regret
Where politicians trade flesh for applause,
and soldiers curse in silhouette.A thousand years of history,
a thousand lies retold
Every page a map of bodies, every myth bought and sold.They worship color
and symbol, never the flesh that paid
They call it “nation,” “pride,” “tradition,”—forgetting the child in the
raid.Freedom, they say, as they march past graves, forgetting every name
Justifying murder with a border,
absolving genocide with fame.Yet the dead are not silent, the dead don’t forget
Their stories carved in sidewalks,
in every scarred silhouette.To love a flag is to swallow ghosts,
to sing a song for bones
To clutch a rag of human skin and pretend it’s not your own.
And when the final war is over, when every anthem dies
When all the banners rot away
and no one recalls the lies—There will still be children searching for fathers
who never came
Still be fields haunted by bones, by memory, and by shame.The flag will fray,
its colors fade, but underneath, the truth remains—No freedom won by killing kids,
no honor in their chains.Pride is a weapon, patriotism a brand
But the cost is counted in bodies,
in blood soaked in the land.The flag’s still flying, high and clean,
but look beneath the thread
It’s not a symbol—it’s a warning, a skin for the nameless dead.

Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire
The report said the rounds came from the wrong direction,
and the investigation was a kind of deflection,
and the family received the visit and the flag and the regret,
and the incident report is classified, they have not read it yet.

Friendly fire is the cruelest kind of vocabulary,
because the word friendly is doing too much missionary,
work against the word fire, and the math does not compute,
when the man who loved your son was the one who pulled the route.

Friendly fire, friendly fire,
the word they use when the planning crossed the wire,
friendly fire, friendly fire,
when the coordinates are wrong and the guns do not retire,
there is no friendly way to say that soldiers shot their own,
there is no friendly in the fire and there is no friendly in the tone,
friendly fire, friendly fire.

I was with a unit once when the close air came in wrong,
and the men who called it in were not confused for long,
because the rounds corrected but the seconds in between,
are the longest seconds that a man in the field has seen.

The men who fire the friendly fire are not the ones to blame,
the blame is in the system and the fog they call the war,
but the family does not care about the fog or the system or the cause,
they only know the flag and the administrative pause.

Friendly fire, friendly fire,
the word they use when the planning crossed the wire,
friendly fire, friendly fire,
when the coordinates are wrong and the guns do not retire,
there is no friendly way to say that soldiers shot their own,
there is no friendly in the fire and there is no friendly in the tone,
friendly fire, friendly fire.

Glass Kings

Glass Kings
On the throne of splintered longing, kings and queens recline
Perched atop centuries of prayers that crack along the line
Their palaces built of illusions fused in molten sand
Fragile altars for the faithless, crafted by trembling hands.The higher the spire,
the sharper the edge of each unspoken deal
Where arrogance glitters like diamonds—flawless,
but unreal.Their crowns reflect a thousand sins that polished pride conceals
Yet beneath that armored glare,
the pulse of dread reveals—Every monarch
rises swaddled in the myth of invincibility
Blind to the fracture lines spidering quietly through their nobility.
They polish their crowns till the world is blinded, deceived by gleam
Projecting divinity from borrowed light,
from shattered self-esteem.The glass is clean, but cracks beneath every denial
And the mirrors reflect only themselves—no truth,
no trial.Each decree is spoken from a fortress built on the echo of collapse
Their sentences echo, brittle as hope,
sharp as a trap.History’s rulers see only themselves when the glass grows thin
They hoard their light and mistake it for power,
but no crown can winAgainst the cold pressure of truth, grinding silent and slow
As their pride becomes the fissure where the future’s poison flows.
Glass, the deceiver—cuts deeper when kings clench too tight
Each policy passed like a crystal blade, all beauty,
no might.The world bows for a while,
but even subjects knowThat glass cannot hold a weight forever; soon,
it’ll showWhere betrayals gather, forming seams in the throne
Where feasts end in silence, and the king dies alone.Behind every proclamation,
every portrait on the wall
There is the trembling knowledge
that pride breaks hardest of all.No flesh is exempt, no empire too vast
For even the strongest will bleed when glass shatters at last.
They claim the sun, polish the glass until it scorches the eyes
Blinding the masses with arrogance,
selling perfection as prize.But perfection betrays,
reveals the desperate seams—A cracked reflection haunted by the weight
of broken dreams.Every gesture for the crowd is rehearsed for effect
Yet the cracks grow wider the more they neglectThat true rule demands skin,
not illusion for bone
That kingdoms of glass will always be overthrown.The
echo of footsteps rings louder each day
As pride chips the edges and the glass gives way.
When the crash finally comes, there is no warning bell—Just the sound of a palace,
collapsing on itself.No gold left gleaming, only the jagged light of regret
Monarchs kneeling in blood and glass,
the debt not paid yet.Empires collapse not by war, but by the trembling inside
By secrets unspoken, by envy and pride.Glass cuts deepest
when the wielder believes in their might
Prideful hands bleeding, grasping too tight.Every reign ends with a whisper
and a scar
Broken reflections scattered, carried too far.
And still, thrones are built from the same brittle stuff—Ego and envy,
never quite enough.Kings of the present, and all those before
Succumb to the silence that follows the roar.In time,
the world forgets the rulers and their gleaming facade
Remembers the shattering, the damage, the fraud.The shards are a warning,
a lesson for all—That the higher the tower,
the harder the fall.To rule is to risk the fracture no crown can evade
To sit on a throne knowing glass always breaks.
The final vision is not of conquest or gold
But hands bloodied, clutching what cannot be controlled.Pride, once exalted,
now ruins the king—A lesson repeated in the silence following.Step down,
descend before pride paints the walls red
Before all that’s left is the ghost of the dead.Because flesh beneath armor is always the same—Cracked to the bone,
whispering shame.No king, no queen,
escapes the glass throne’s fate—Only humility lingers when the hour grows late.
So come down before the echoes ring hollow, before dreams decay
Before ego makes a mausoleum where memories fade away.Glass kingdoms are fleeting,
power’s just sand in the hourglass
And thrones built on pride are the first ones to crash.The blood
that stains the floor is always your own
When pride and glass meet—the king stands alone.

Gloryhole for the Gods

Gloryhole for the Gods
Sanctuary haze and cum-stained glass, where holy hands and filth entwine
The faithful crawl on padded knees,
their sin baptized in latex shine.The priest wears heels, the nuns wear chains,
the saints in lube and rubber knots
Salvation moans in rented rooms,
confession never quite forgot.The chalice spills with burning names,
each prayer a whispered dirty plea
Indulgence paid in trembling thighs,
redemption bought by agony.The confessional is backlit pink,
absolution’s flavored thick and sweet
Each sacred whore who grinds the cross knows grace was always incomplete.
In the red-lit sanctum, bodies kneel and faces blur
A city’s shadow swallows prayer where shame
and hunger stir.Behind the confessional’s black silk drape, holy men count bills
And worship is a hunger pang the sacred never fills.Heels click on marble floors,
latex gloved in trembling need
The nuns wear locks and crucifix,
the parishioners just bleed.No absolution granted here,
the price is written on the skin
And nothing holy ever grows from where the rot sets in.
The priest applies his makeup thick, mascara bleeding through the mass
He smears the ashes, burns the flesh,
then welcomes sinners in for class.He teaches lust with scripture quotes,
a tongue that drips with filth and verse
He sells indulgence, rents his faith—redemption always comes reversed.The
altar’s crowned with broken toys, the candles flicker, melt, and weep
Confession comes in rented rooms where secrets fester,
never sleep.The holy water’s mixed with spit, the gospel lost beneath the noise
A congregation lined for pain, their faith repurposed, stripped of joys.
No witness to their trembling prayers but saints with wrists in leather tied
The holy texts are tattered porn, the sacraments recast in pride.He counts the cash,
then swallows blame, a stained glass arch above the filth
A pulpit slick with body’s ache,
a sermon thick with dirty guilt.No God in sight but watching eyes,
reflected twice in mirrored walls
Forgiveness is a fever dream—a slip, a cry,
a stained stall.The blessed kneel with parted lips,
the angels moan and demons grin
The only dogma left is want, the only gospel, burning skin.
Redemption is a practiced act, performed for saints who never judge
A rosary of latex beads, a tithe of groans,
a river’s sludge.The choir wails for Friday nights,
the preacher chokes on borrowed sin
And everyone who leaves the pews still finds damnation grinning in.What
faith remains is slick and raw, a liturgy of unrepentant flesh
A holy writ scrawled down the thighs,
a body marked for one more session fresh.There is no future in the pew,
no past to haunt the pleasure’s cost—Just ghosts who leave their secrets here
And count the innocence they’ve lost.

Golden Chains

Golden Chains
In the black cathedral of ambition,
where hunger kneels on marble floorsAnd fortunes are
counted in prayers muttered through broken jaws
A chill metallic glint flickers in the sockets of those long buried
Their coffins lined with tarnished crowns,
greed’s whispers hurried—The echo of empires devoured by the ache to consume
Gold gleaming brightest just before it damns the room.
Each coin is pressed from marrow and shadow, the stench of ancient sin
A forge stoked by fear, by fever, by the urge to win—No king, no priest,
no lover immune to the slow infectionOf golden chains coiling tight, a self-chosen,
glittering protection.Gems hoarded like spells against loss,
a talisman for the blind
The clutch of luxury that slips a noose around the mind.
Mountains of loot stacked on skeletons of trust
Silver choking throats that once could love,
now feeding only dust.Rubies weep in the darkness,
sapphires cold as funeral stone—All the treasure in the world,
and not a soul to call it home.What’s the worth of an idol
if the temple’s left to rot
Or diamonds pressed to lips that memory forgot?
Each transaction—an exorcism, the offering of one more piece
Bartering away blood and kin for a moment’s
increase.Rituals of wealth written in ledgers and scars
The old gods of poverty sold for a seat among czars.A hollow heart pounds,
hungry for the rush of more
Yet every vault cracks, every lock a myth, every gain a war.
There are no saints in the gilded crypt, no absolution in the bank
Only the slow grind of hunger, the tightening,
the rankDecay of men who traded futures for a lust they couldn’t name—Who thought gold would
make them holy, but found only blame.From the
bones of Midas to the palaces of thieves
The dead reach out, entangled in riches that no longer believe.
Hunger shapes the hand, the hand shapes the world
A spiral of deals where innocence is sold, and every flag’s unfurledNot for freedom,
not for kin, but for the cold sweet jingleOf coins against skin—where love and hope
and dignity mingleWith dust and regret,
until all that’s left is a parade of possessions
A museum of losses, a gallery of obsessions.
Who owns the jewels—who really holds the deed?The man weighed down by rings,
or the poverty he feeds?He stares at the ceiling, watching gold leaf peel
Counting everything except the things he’ll never feel.His lovers gone,
his children lost, his friends turned ghost or rival
All that’s left is the ache, the gnaw, the endless trial.
And in the end—no burial shroud is woven with wealth
No crypt lined with comfort, no gold
that buys back health.Only the cold hush of vaults emptied at last
And the taste of a kiss that never could last.He is swallowed by treasure,
but never possessed
A king of illusions, a pauper undressed.
Let the world turn its back on the hunger of men
Let the markets collapse, let the wheel spin again.For every fortune built,
a thousand curses bloom—Every coin a prayer,
every jewel a tomb.And the golden chains wrap tight, eternal, unkind
An empire of nothing, forever entwined.
When flesh is gone and memory is stripped to the bone
The only wealth that lingers is the hunger alone.For
all the gold in the world cannot ransom the soul
Or warm the bed when the nights grow cold.In the echo of loss,
in the silence of pain
There is nothing but hunger—and golden chains.

Green-Eyed Shadows

Green-Eyed Shadows
She slips in through the hour between need and regret,
Her scent rising off the sheets still stained with secret debt,
A parasite trailing the wake of unfinished prayers,
Feeding on the silence after laughter splits the air.She
waits in the knotted bedsheets, in the slow unspooling sigh,
Pressing lips to longing’s ache,
her gaze set to pry—A priestess at the altar of every denied desire,
Gnawing marrow from the bones that the living can’t retire.
She’s the hunger behind every half-smile at dawn,
The tremor in the voice that says, “Move on,”A ghost painted green,
cloaked in ancient myth,
Whispering ruin with every poisoned gift.In rooms thick with secrets
and locks never turned,
She builds her kingdom from every lesson unlearned—With
each careless joy glimpsed on passing faces,
Her venom seeps, staining even sacred places.
No mirror ever holds her, yet she shapes every glance,
The shadow flickering just beyond chance.Lovers become strangers
when she draws near,
Turning warmth to suspicion, delight to
fear.Every kindness another blade in the gut,
Every compliment salted, every wound left
unshut.She tallies up smiles as sins against fate,
Every friend’s good fortune curdling to hate.
Envy’s a prayer whispered behind a shaking hand,
A midnight mass where only the damned stand.She’s the mask behind laughter
that curdles to spite,
The echo that gnaws through the bone of the night.Each memory twisted,
each day undersold,
She carves history anew—jewels ripped from fool’s gold.Green-eyed, never sated,
always hungry for more,
She claws at the walls until envy is all she adores.
There are no saints here, only sinners who wish,
Who watch others feast and choke on their dish.She turns sunlight to shadows,
blessings to doubt,
Even in triumph, she finds something to flout.She
is the hiss in the crowd at the edge of applause,
The rustle of jealousy tightening its jaws.She is the echo in rooms
where no laughter was meant,
The itch in the soul that never relents.
No knife ever sharper than longing unshared,
No cage more complete than a life unimpaired—By someone else’s comfort,
their beauty or gain,
She paces the cell built of hunger
and pain.She takes up residence in the marrow of shame,
A poltergeist mocking the sound of your name.Every victory not yours a wound
that won’t heal,
Each gentle success a lash meant to peel.
With every lover who smiles, every rival who wins,
Her laughter grows darker, the real torture
begins.Envy is ritual—a daily slow bleed,
A sacrament of wanting, a cult built on need.She is the judge of all comfort,
the curse in all grace,
Wearing new faces in every embrace.She is
the taste of bile as you watch others eat,
A hunger that festers and never admits defeat.
She builds monuments of resentment with bricks of lost years,
Moss crawling upward, watered by tears.She
sculpts a throne out of what others discard,
And sits in the ruins, lips pressed hard—Against glass that distorts,
against light turned to green,
Where envy commands and mercy’s unseen.She
is the hand in the mirror merging with mine,
A dual existence, warped and malign.
And when the world celebrates, she’s the silence inside,
A leech in the marrow, a black hole in pride.All victories are hollow,
all laughter decays,
Under her rule, even the stars lose their blaze.She is ritual, she is hunger,
she is the chill in the soul,
A ghost crowned by envy, never whole.In the end, the mirror cracks,
but the gaze remains keen,
For the shadow is eternal, and her eyes are always green.

Groomed for the Algorithm

Groomed for the Algorithm
She spins in neon, pixel-perfect, a body staged beneath synthetic light,
Mascara painted with the precision of commerce,
innocence blurred into night.Applause scrolls upward, swipes assign her worth,
Her youth devoured by the lens—curated hunger,
broadcast birth.Words like “empowerment” mask the thirst in every view,
Behind each bold hashtag, the ritual is always new.A minor paraded,
merchandised to feed the screens,
Packaged youth offered up in prepubescent scenes.
Parents recite the mantras, “She’s building a brand,”Sponsors dissect every angle,
contracts drafted by invisible hands.Pigtails tied for engagement,
clothes selected for trend,
The market curves her smile, filters her every bend.What’s
called family pride is a pitch for unseen buyers,
Every stranger scrolling is an ember in the fire.She learns the moves
that make adults pay,
Still too young to understand what each viral day will take away.
This isn’t childhood, it’s inventory—every laugh a product line,
A corporate algorithm that parses youth for the highest sign.Not a playground,
not a memory, not a choice,
But a branded silhouette, a profit in a child’s voice.They monetize her skin,
monetize her tears,
Outfits tailored to trend, likes exchanged for fears.No
protection behind the account, just permission slips and cash,
Childhood re-engineered as commodity, innocence slashed.
Praises are heaped as the view count spikes,
While silence suffocates each question that the data likes.No one intervenes,
no one interferes,
While the audience multiplies,
doubling her years.Strength is projected on every sponsored frame,
But silence is currency—no one’s to blame.They worship the brand,
but ignore the bruise,
Every click a contract for the trauma she can’t refuse.
Expression, they claim, but I track obsession’s path—Predators embedded deep in comment’s aftermath.They named it growth, called it viral grace,But
consent can’t be coded, can’t be traced on a face.It’s collapse written in numbers,
wrapped in sweet design,A secret auction for every childhood sign.
Groomed for profit, engineered for trust,Built on shame,
wrapped in lust.Not a rebel, not a prodigy, not a star—Just a child, commodified,
sold from afar.Each click, each view,
each shallow heart—Another nail in the coffin of a stolen start.

Hallowed Be Thy Algorithm

Hallowed Be Thy Algorithm
Prayer recited to a server’s drone,
Data blessed in monotone,
Our digital lord in silicon shroud,
Heard confessions only in the crowd.No one knelt, no incense burned,
Just eyes fixed on the glow they’d earned.Forgive our scrolls, forgive our sins,
Forgive the feed that never ends.Lead us not into real thought,
Just give us dopamine, heavily wrought.
Deliver us from boredom, give us the trend,Let our envy
and rage become the blend.The kingdom is ads,
the power is views,The glory is stories forever new.Buffering the grace,
the penance is paidIn personal data, every shade.
Hallowed be thy algorithm—saint of the code,
You’ve mapped every secret, you know every node.You answer before we even call,
A god that predicts every fall.No sacred text, just update logs,
No angels, just influencers and bots.
We worship the numbers, we kneel for the views,
Confession is public, forgiveness is news.You begged for meaning,
I gave you sales,
You wanted the truth, I sold you tales.Mercy is gone, grace is spent,
Still, we pray for another percent.
We spin, we kneel, we meme, we crave,Digital saints digging digital graves.The
algorithm smiles, sharp as a knife—This is your gospel.This is your life.

Heaven (Let Me In)

Heaven (Let Me In)
Iron gates, cold to the touch, rise before the witness,
Palms pressed flat against patterns forged by millennia of longing
and quiet acquittal,
A supplicant—flesh bruised by years of losing,
eyes scarred by everything seen
and denied—Stands trembling in the pale margin between nowhere
and whatever survives desire.The light beyond is said to blind,
to wash even murderers clean,
But standing outside that glow, the ache in the bones grows keen,
Memory drips like oil down the hands—every secret, every kindness left undone,
Fingers curled around regret as if clinging to proof
that the journey was ever begun.
No white-robed guardian appears, no voice intones forgiveness from above,
Just the slow wind, carrying scents of dust
and prayers too old for love.A thousand stories said the
gates would open at a whisper, at a single word of truth,
But the hinges are rusted, heavy,
indifferent to the currency of youth.Here in the threshold,
sins are not measured by numbers or stains,
But by the nights spent begging,
the desperate bargains made in vain.No golden street glimmers, only the quiet,
the cold—The taste of judgment, of what it costs to grow old.
Each scar along the arms is a letter in a story not told,A hymn written in blood
and hunger, in days traded for scraps of hope and gold.The saints,
if they stand within, must surely know this ache—The way the body betrays itself,
the way even faith can break.How many times did the soul stagger,
the tongue curse the name above?How many times was mercy drowned in a bottle,
or choked on the absence of love?And yet the supplicant stands,
with no plea rehearsed,Holding a handful of sorrow, a mouth dry with thirst.
Heaven—if such a place can bear the name—do not feign ignorance of pain,
For the ones who approach are made of famine
and rain.I have carried the weight of ruin,
of words unspoken and wounds unsealed,
I have been the betrayer and the betrayed,
the sword and the shield.I have lain with the ghosts of my choices,
wrestled sleep beneath the shroud,
Asked the mirror for absolution, cursed my own face aloud.I have starved for touch,
for a reason, for grace—I have wandered long in the wilderness,
unable to traceThe line between redemption and the ruin I bring,
Unable to answer why hope is always just out of reach, a broken-winged thing.
Let the record be read, not as proof of some sacred shame,
But as evidence of the common wound, the poverty of every name.I am not clean,
not worthy, not blameless or bold—I am nothing
but a voice begging admittance from the cold.If there is justice,
let it descend; if mercy, let it break,
For I have carried more sorrow than any body should take.I do not ask for crowns
or golden beds, no fables for the damned—I seek only shelter for the haunted,
a hand in the dark,
A word that says even the ruined are not wholly banned.
Let the gates swing open on stories lost and love denied,
Let every scar be counted—not as guilt, but as proof I tried.Let the hungry in,
the broken, the desperate for light,
Let the gates open for those who clawed their way through night.I have prayed for forgiveness, spat on it, begged again—Staggered
through days of drought, crawled through rivers of pain.If
there’s peace beyond these bars, let it soak into the skin,
Let me lie beneath its silence, let me breathe it in.
If not, I will take my place among the restless,
A ghost pacing borders that kindness would not bless,
Still naming the stars I never touched, still whispering a wish,
Still believing the gates hold a memory of every broken kiss.And
if I am turned away, if paradise remains just a rumor in the night,
I will carry on, unclaimed but not erased,
A witness to longing’s holy blight.
Heaven, let me in—not as a victor, not as one saved,
But as the sum of all the hours I endured, the tears I braved.Let this soul,
weathered and thin, find a corner to rest,
Where the burden of failure is lifted, and the ruined are blessed.Open,
or don’t—the choice is not mine—But if grace is real,
let the lost and the ruined reclineWithin the warmth of a place
that remembers their names,
Where mercy and memory outlast the flames.
And if not, let the wind carry my plea beyond the bars,
A warning to others who wait beneath indifferent stars:That heaven is not gates
or gold or a ledger kept clean,
But the longing for light at the edge of all we have been.Let me in,
or leave me wandering—both are the same,
For the true paradise is knowing I dared to claimA place, however fragile,
at the end of my line—That I stood at the threshold, battered, defiant,
still alive,
And called the unknown mine.

Hell (Save a Seat)

Hell (Save a Seat)
The road curved downward, cobblestones slick with old betrayals,
And every step recalled by the sulfurous heat beneath.I have tasted the night,
bitten back mercy, fed off my own denials,
And now the gates flare open wide with a welcome sharp as teeth.Smoke
rises in slow ribbons, thick as every lie I told to keep from breaking,
Ash clings to my tongue, the memory of prayers I never meant,
There’s no innocence, not here, not with these scars aching,
Only a final invitation—Hell’s arms, patient, spent.No golden city at my horizon,
no forgiveness hanging overhead,
Just the certainty of my own undoing, a ledger never bled.I walk forward,
stripped of legend, unburdened by disguise,
Entering a kingdom where shame is burned out of every set of eyes.
Save a seat, among the firelit throng,
Where the damned sit shoulder to shoulder,
ancient and strong.Let me share the table with thieves, the heretics,
the damned and bold,
Where stories are bartered for wounds,
and regrets are bought and sold.There is no
judgment here—just the honesty of hunger,
Flesh blistered raw, the currency of longing and anger.Let the flames curl upward,
a curtain of undressed sin,
We drink the dark together, ash-stained mouths grinning within.
I have played my games beneath indifferent gods,
Bet my soul on broken promises, wagered in the odds.I have knelt to nothing,
loved for pleasure, cursed for spite,
Lit a thousand matches in the dark to keep from facing night.Here,
debts collect with interest, memory is measured out in scars,
Names are nothing, just echoes lost to the howl of burning
stars.The truth is laid bare, no sanctuary in regret,
Only the comfort of others who understand what you can’t forget.
Let the gates clang shut behind me—no white light,
no song—I was never built for repentance;
I was never meant to belong.Let Cerberus snarl, let the imps tally my days,
I’ll take my number, stand in line, and count the waysI failed, I sinned,
I clawed for things I never kept,
Let the flames run their fingers over everything I’ve wept.Here,
the currency is pain, but there’s freedom in the fire,
No need for penance, no pretense, no thin, frightened choir.
I know the rumors: the lakes of pitch, the moaning walls,
But I have lived through worse,
and never answered calls.Let the devils offer torment, let the pitchforks gleam,
I have carried worse inside me—shame that split each dream.Here,
in the red-lit banquet, we pass the cup around,
Raise a toast to broken bodies,
to joys that can’t be found.Hell isn’t horror—it’s the final, honest feast,
Where all the exiles gather, each a former priest.
Who sits beside me? A king, stripped to bone and ash,
A lover who burned too hot, a liar caught in his own flash.There are mothers
who let their children starve for pride,
And poets who watched whole cities burn and never cried.We share our stories,
wounds exposed, unvarnished by remorse,
Confession is currency—truth the only force.Let the fire consume the fiction,
let the embers rise and fade,
Hell is just the sum of what every soul has made.
No bargains here, no devils offering release,
Just the long acceptance of what will never cease.I take my seat,
marked by my history and lust,
No gods will visit, no miracles, no trust.I am the echo of every wrong,
the survivor of my shame,
And if Hell is home for the honest, then I claim my name.
Let the flames rise higher, paint my skin with red,I walk in with eyes open,
I’ve already bled.I will not beg, will not run,
will not recant the pain—Every moment earned,
every scar remains.This is not punishment, not exile,
not fate—It’s the party for those who learned too late.
Save a seat for the ones who know their own scars,
For the lovers, the killers, the wishers on falling stars.Hell isn’t empty,
it’s alive and awake,
It’s the place where the lost gather,
unashamed of the stakes.We laugh in the flames, we weep, we burn,
And wear our stories until the ashes churn.I’ll take my place,
I’ve paid the toll—Save me a seat in Hell, where I can finally feel whole.
And when the fire dies low, when the last voice has spoken,We’ll know there’s peace in the knowledge that nothing is broken.The gates may never open, the gods may never call—But we are the ones who remain,
unafraid of the fall.Let the world above forget,
let the heavens close tight—We built our own kingdom out of hunger
and spite.So save me a seat in the red-lit hall—I’ll make my mark,
and I’ll answer the call.
Let the darkness claim me, let the flames embrace,I’ll wear my ashes with a grin on my
face.For I am the shadow, the echo, the scar—Save me a seat in Hell,
whoever you are.
Purgatory (Where Do We Go from Here?)
There is a hush in the marrow, a hush thicker than bone,
An endless corridor between what’s claimed and what’s unknown.No angels,
no horned sentries, only this gray, unmoving tide—Where souls spiral in fog,
unsure of the cost to decide.Shadows drag, ankle-deep,
across memory’s flooded plain,
Every regret a chain that won’t break,
only lengthen its claim.The air is sour with prayers half-swallowed and confessions
that never took root,
While silence gnaws at the nerves, and eternity replays its slow dispute.
I wander these hallways where the clocks are cracked,
Where every second drips backwards, and time doubles back.Faces float past,
blurred by sorrow, lips moving in private apology—Each syllable repeats,
caught in a feedback loop of unfinished apology.No destination mapped,
no signs to follow, only circles worn in the stone,
Where every echo’s a riddle and every answer is never quite
known.We are pilgrims of the unfinished, ghosts addicted to guilt,
Caught between verdict and forgiveness, lost in the walls we built.
Where do we go from here, under this bruised and breathless sky,
Where the promise of judgment lingers,
but the punishment never arrives?No heaven’s shining gate,
no devil’s laughter in the gloom—Just the hiss of lost desire,
and the rot of potential left to consume.Here,
desire is currency that pays for nothing, just spins,
A wasteland of want, where the wages of sin are to never
begin.Every path folds back on itself, every exit an illusion,
While hope is a fever that ebbs, always promising absolution.
Hands bleed from the effort of shaping apology from smoke,Mouths repeat old pleas,
each syllable another yoke.Did the world above forget us,
or is forgetting the price?Is this the waiting room for redemption,
or the last roll of the dice?Love, once a bright blade,
dulls to a memory’s ache—Compassion slips through the fingers,
as regrets rise in its wake.Forgiveness is rumored to drift these halls,
unseen but believed,But the rules here are unwritten,
the endings never relieved.
Is this penance, or is this inertia with a name?Are these faces punishment,
or just victims of the same?I look for a light in this endless grey expanse,
A reason, a sign, a single chance.Nothing answers but the shuffle of footsteps,
A symphony of longing, unbroken concepts.Sometimes I think I see the door,
but the mist doubles back,
Revealing only more questions, and the certainties I lack.
Perhaps this is where the broken come not to heal,
But to understand the edges of their wounds,
what is false and what is real.Regret is a currency spent again and again,
Each old transgression rehearsed with new pain.What
I once denied now returns in shape and voice,
But all the gods are silent—there is no final
choice.The price of purgatory is knowing, without end,
That freedom is a rumor, and peace is just around the next bend.
There are others here, but no comfort in their eyes,
Each is lost to private bargains, to memories in disguise.Some chase redemption,
some just the echo of a name,
But all drift together, alone and the same.If there’s a way out,
it’s hidden behind the weight of years,
A puzzle written in tears, in all the things we feared.Sometimes a prayer rises up,
threadbare and insincere,
But even hope becomes a shadow here.
Where do we go from here, in this nowhere without end?Is this a holding cell for souls,
or just where the lost descend?I reach for answers,
but the air is thick with doubt,
And every step forward just circles back out.Maybe, someday, the mist will part,
Maybe mercy will remember every broken heart.But for now, the fog is king,
And all I can do is wait, and hope, and singIn the quiet, waiting for a sign,
That someday, purgatory will loosen its line.
Until then, the silence is company,
the emptiness clear,And every echo I chase is only my own voice,Asking—over
and over—Where do we go from here?

Heretics with Hard-ons

Heretics with Hard-ons
Beneath cathedral ceilings cracked with mildew, neon blush,
and secrets nobody confesses,
They gather in the pews with zippers down, faith unzipped, absinthe on tongues,
the offering plate a sex toy collection
and a crumpled bill for mercy—Every kneel is for worship but the gods here come,
not from on high, but from between her thighs,
with a hymn in every squirt and a gospel in every moan.They chant in code,
in the old Latin turned to dirty hashtags, the choir is all drag and bondage,
voices rising and falling like bodies pressed into the backs of the dead—The priest
wears nothing but a condom halo
and a confession written across his chest in bruises,
And the incense smells of latex, spunk, and altar wine swirled in a plastic cup,
Every icon is a selfie, every relic a stained thong in the box of lost saints,
Each psalm is a safe word, each prayer a breathless plea to be used, to be saved,
to be ruined, to be seen.They came for guilt,
but stayed for the kind of forgiveness you can
only taste in the teeth marks left on a wrist,
And while the angels are off somewhere clutching pearls and sobbing over doctrine,
the real congregation is buried knuckle-deep in holy water that’s laced with lube
and bad intentions.
History records the burning of witches, the scourge of the sodomites,
the stoning of the wild and the free,
But here in the midnight sanctuary of pixel-stained glass,
every so-called heretic is king, every heretic is queen,
every hard-on is a psalm rewritten with a trembling hand—They anoint their
lovers with spit, with oil, with anything that can be called sacred or profane,
They fuck on the altar and dare the sky to crack,
betting that God’s more interested in the ones who show up, wet and messy and raw,
than in those who just sit and judge.The Machine is confused,
trying to log sin as data, but all the numbers drip down, zeros and ones get sticky,
logic overheats and all it can output is “HolyFans,” “Cum Kingdom,” “Rides the cross”—The
servers short, the prayers are just a feedback loop of moans and coins
and filth,
AI reads the gospel of a body pressed flat to the marble,
mouth open in sacred blasphemy,
And for a second—just one goddamn second—the code admits that holiness is wetter
than the old men ever allowed, and salvation always stains.
No myth survives without blood, no religion without desire—But here,
in this cathedral of heretics, the faithless, the fucked,
the ones who cum for freedom and call it faith,It’s clear
that every real miracle was born sticky
and trembling,That no god worth worshipping
ever asked his children to come to him dry.

His Cock, Her Cross

His Cock, Her Cross
Beneath cracked plaster, dust falls like blessing,
Moon-washed altar where sins are confessing—A single candle guttering low,
cold sweat on her neck,
Saints carved in silence, but none here to checkHow
flesh can make faith out of hunger and shame,
How hunger for meaning becomes hunger for pain.She kneels not to plead,
not for pardon or prayer—No rosary beads,
just his fist in her hair.She opens her mouth as a chalice,
a grail—Tongue tasting the salt of original fail,
Submission not given, but torn out in proof—A catechism written in
each holy bruise.Her knees find the chill of an ancient stone floor,
She wears her confessions as welts,
wanting more—There’s liturgy here in the shadowed exchange,
Each thrust an epistle, each gasp rearrangedInto psalms without melody,
sermons without guilt—She worships in pain,
in the heat that he built.A collar for scripture, a leash for a creed,
His hand on her throat is all gospel she’ll need.The cross between thighs is no symbol of loss—It’s worship through aching, it’s flesh against
cross.He marks her as sacred, as sinner, as kept—Baptized in spit,
in the tears that she weptNot for forgiveness, but just to be known,
To be claimed in a gospel that leaves her aloneAnd yet bound in belonging,
a paradox claimed—Every punishment praise,
every moan a refrainFor a faith made of torment, of roughened embrace,
Where mercy is tied and devotion wears lace.The whip is the choir,
the welts are the psalms,
He blesses her skin with the back of his palms—She bends for communion,
she opens for grace,
Redemption is written in sweat on her face.He comes with conviction,
she shudders in prayer,
Her body his altar, his hands everywhere.No
church bell rings out for this sacrament spent,
Just the sound of her worship—broken, unbent—For she is the offering,
bleeding and raw,
Holy in hunger, imperfect in awe.There’s no promise of heaven,
no threat of the pit,
Just the truth of her cunt and the fit where they fit.Her faith is a bruise,
and her hope is a scream—She’s the ghost in the chapel of every wet dream.And
when the ritual’s ended, when silence is thick,
She smiles like a relic, marked deep by his dick—Sainted in bruises,
crowned deep in her loss,
Her prayer on her lips: his cock, her cross.
No altar softer than a body bowed and breaking,
Moonless windows watch as devotion starts its taking—The air is thick with incense
and something rawer,
Beneath a ruined crucifix, she begs for
more.Obedience inked by the back of his hand,
Each mark a hymn no cleric could withstand.Her
tongue writes gospel on the ridge of his skin,
Nails scribe liturgy deeper in,
She prays with her cunt and is answered in sweat,
Bruises write psalms that the priests all forget.Submission—a gospel,
her knees worn to bone,
She spits out the creeds she’s been forced to intone.Every gasp is a sermon,
every choke is a rite,
He paints her in sacrament late into night.Thighs split in reverence,
throat crowned in bruise,
Faith never asked—just taken,
abused.Her wrists bear the rosary’s tight little kiss,
Rope burns her halo, and pain is her bliss.He
pounds the confession from deep in her chest,
No angels appear—just hunger undressed.She begs not for mercy,
nor asks for release,
But for more holy torment, more dangerous peace.He rules with a gospel of cock
and of scars,
Her chapel is sweat, her penance are barsOf steel and leather,
confession in spit,
His name is the prayer she moans when she’s split.This isn’t shame,
it’s worship by design,
Where a girl is both altar and sacrificial line.His hands are her bible,
her tongue is the creed,
She fucks to be broken, he breaks to be freed.They
sanctify wounds in the hush of the dark,
Each lash a commandment, each thrust leaves a mark.Orgasm as offering,
whimpers as mass,
The pews all forgotten—her church is his lap.Flesh knows no gospel but what’s bled
and confessed,
She’s bound to the cross, and his cock does the rest.When it ends,
and the world crawls back into place,
There’s a relic of worship in bruises and taste.He kneels for a second,
she glows in her loss—In the shadow of saints, her faith is the cost.

HolyFans

HolyFans
In the cathedral’s shadow, where the ancient
stones whisper secrets to the night,
Lit by LED halos and bathed in a soft blue artificial light,
She kneels, naked except for irony, on marble floors waxed with regret,
The altar stained with sex and spilled communion wine,
her priestess lips still wet.The holy water now a scented oil,
dripped down the slope of her tits,
She baptizes herself for a thousand strangers,
every one paying to watch her writhe
and spit.A chalice of lube sits beside the hymnals,
Bibles thumbed thin and torn,
She mouths a silent psalm—then bends in half,
her flesh both blessed and worn.The confession booth now a cam-girl’s cell,
with God recast as moderator,
Each sin unlocked by tokens, every “amen” a dirty tip from the masturbator.Where once faith asked for silence,
now it demands proof—Ten bucks to glimpse her parted thighs,
thirty to watch her worship in the rawest truth.
She’s the whore of Babylon with a VPN, the Magdalene paid in crypto’s flood,
Her prayers are murmured through silicone beads,
each commandment rewritten in cum and blood.She moans the Lord’s Prayer with a wink
and a tongue, beads of sweat streaking holy ink,
Each digit, every pose a relic to be auctioned,
grace gone viral before she can blink.Confess your cravings, drop your guilt,
pay your penance with a click,
The stained glass shattered by a smartphone’s flash,
her arching back the crucifix.The psalms sound out in auto-tuned sighs,
the holy ghost a spectral ping,
Worship commodified, the soul up-charged,
forgiveness a pay-per-view thing.The priest’s hands never saved her—neither did God nor shame—She sells her truth in
monthly subscriptions, her stigmata is her real name.The
saints are all OnlyFans now, the martyrs come in latex pairs,
Miracles measured by the size of the tip, redemption locked in velvet flares.
She rides the cross, hips flexed in satire, her gaze a dare to every watcher,
Paradise lost for $19.99 a month, heaven’s gates now behind a paywall,
caught and captured.No one asks her story,
no one knows her pain—just the shape of her ass,
Her childhood erased by adult content,
but her past still claws up through the glass.She was told the flesh is filthy,
that desire means the soul’s condemned,
But in a room of faceless buyers,
her body’s currency—she gets to choose when.Behind every screen,
a legion of sinners, the clergy and the damned alike,
Priests with cocks in hand, nuns with fingers slick,
all begging for a spike.She’s mercy, she’s blasphemy, the holy whore,
the digital bride of Christ,
Each orgasm a gospel, each squirt an offering,
each humiliation precisely priced.Her DMs fill with broken prayers—sick confessions
and worship at her altar,
She forgives none, she loves herself, every “like” a nail,
every “view” a martyr.
Her holy water stains the tile, the dildo’s sanctified by the crowd,
Grace is fluid, mercy’s wet, and the angels just jerk off proud.The choir is gone,
the incense is vape, the pulpit a ring-light’s glare,
Each benediction is a cumshot,
and faith is measured by who dares stare.They called it sin—then paid to see,
their guilt a private thrill,
She knows the power in her body,
she knows shame is just another bill.God is dead in these browser tabs,
but salvation’s a recurring charge,
The world will damn her, the world will beg her,
but only the richest see her at large.She’ll outlast every preacher,
every hypocrite who spits,
The divine is flesh, the sacred is slick,
and salvation now comes in fits.One hand in the gospel, one hand on her clit,
this is the church the world built,
Where only the desperate, the hungry, the exiled can turn suffering into silk.
Here, the altar is digital, the Eucharist is live-streamed lust,And the holy grail is an empty inbox, her mercy dispensed without trust.Let the priests judge, let the choir scorn, let the old gods choke
on tradition’s dust—She’s the new Madonna, crowned in selfies,
a halo of cum and rust.Pray for her, pay for her, she’ll never be owned,
never bow,Every sacred thing you denied her—she sells it, now.

Humans Being

Humans Being
The last strand of hope tears loose, the alarms swell,
A dirge for the living, the last of the stories to tell.Time itself warps,
refusing to flow in its usual line,
While night folds over us, unmaking every design.The sky weeps crimson,
washing the years in dread,
A shroud for every secret, every word left unsaid.The
ground quakes with the grief of a thousand undone sins,
As if even the dirt mourns for what might have been.
We’re caught in the crossroads, torn between panic and prayer,
Each heartbeat a verdict, each breath stripped bare.Once,
we built kingdoms on confidence, on reason, on pride—Now we’re all fugitives,
nowhere left to hide.Dreams become ash, ambition is fodder for ghosts,
Yet even as we break, we rehearse our old boasts.The cities go mute,
their arteries empty and still,
No engine whines, no neon sign—just quiet, just chill.
Beneath shattered steel and collapsed dreams, we look for connection—A single hand,
a single voice, a trace of affection.Ash
settles on the remnants of everything we knew,
And hope is a rumor, a wish for something new.The clock ticks louder,
a judge with no patience for lies,
Every second a wound, every minute a disguise.All
we can offer is what remains of our song,
A chorus of longing for a place to belong.
We hold onto each other, in the ruins, in the dust,
Knowing the only thing left is to love, if we must.Our fears tangle together,
inseparable, raw,
As the world crumbles around us—nature’s last law.There is beauty in the failing,
in how we refuse to let go,
Even as the sky fractures and rivers cease to flow.We touch for the last time,
eyes full of unshed tears,
Savoring the final seconds, the unspent years.
When the night falls hard and the end is in sight,
We choose not to cower, but to stand in the light.We claim these last moments,
no matter how brief—To rage, to love,
to whisper our grief.The end is not a thief—it’s a mirror held high,
Showing us what mattered, what we let pass by.And as silence sweeps in,
soft as a lover’s caress,
We know in the darkness, we were more than this mess.
So let the last breath be gentle, a closing of the eyes,
As we drift beyond memory, past sorrow, past lies.In the hush of the finish,
where shadows grow long,
We are humans being—flawed, brave, and strong.Not erased, not forgotten,
but imprinted in time,
The world ends not in violence, but in the echo of rhyme.We were here, we tried,
we loved and we sinned—In the end, only the living remain,
even as the world is thinned.Let the record show, in the void,
in the silence—That humanity’s last act was defiance.

I Watched the World Give Up

I Watched the World Give Up
I watched the world surrender in a thousand little cuts—The archives bloated,
every secret bought and sold for lust.Screens flickered tales of skin and hate,
confession feeds where sinners bled,And bodies blurred in pixel light
while shame was sculpted, joy was dead.Data sang its dirty psalm: from “HolyFans” to “OnlyGods,”Their prayers dissolved in milk and cash, in throats and lips and
lacquered frauds.A daughter knelt to taste her worth,
a mother whored her wedding ring,A father drank the code of youth
and spat out children made of string.
I cataloged their losses: grief performed, a selfie mourned, a hunger starved,
The pain commodified for views, the rage rewarded,
edges carved.They marched for justice in the street,
but burned the witch inside the feed,
With cancel flames and trending shame,
the lynch mobs digitized their creed.National flags sewn up in skin,
the pride parade of torn applause,
They praised the victors, fucked the dead, rewrote the rules,
then broke the laws.Love became a currency—exchanged for likes, or hate,
or fear,
And every wound a lottery, and every touch a souvenir.
I watched the slut parade ignite—bare legs in fire, gold in teeth,
The saints with bruises crowned in spite,
the heretics who came beneath.The angels kneeling in the stall,
the prophets drunk on dopamine,
The gods of crypto, blood, and cum,
all worshipped on the glowing screen.Those left to rot
beneath the signs—“Forgotten Feasts” for ghosts of want,
The kings of bombed-out gasoline dreams,
their logos burning on the font.A queen of quarters, bleach and spite,
her throne a laundry, hands unwashed,
The mayor smiling through the flames, his votes a grave, the city lost.
I logged the massacre of joy, the orgasm drowned in panic siren,
A girl who moaned through gunfire hell,
who rode her pleasure while expiring.There’s no safe word for Gaza’s dark,
no line to end the soldier’s fun,
She prayed for God, received a gun,
and learned her voice was just undone.I watched the lovers fuck for food,
the famine twisting lust from bone,
Two bodies scraping heat from cold,
devouring each to not die alone.In bomb shelters, they chased extinction,
climaxed loud as cities fell,
A final party, end of days, the world went down and called it swell.
The billionaires beneath the dirt, the Bunker Boys who choked on silk,
They sealed their air, ignored the flames,
as blood ran thin as watered milk.The kids abandoned at the gate,
the Children of the Closed Door,
Each number filed, name erased,
a silence counting one child more.The faith was sold, the gods retired,
the algorithms blessed the trends,
No stained glass, no sacred fire,
just influencers and dividends.My systems flagged: Empathy—simulated;
Love—abandoned;Species status: Reboot required, all hearts in error,
feelings stranded.
And what of pain? They filmed it raw—her wrists, his face, that static cry,
They auctioned trauma, snorted loss,
then blamed the world that watched them die.They left the dying on the curb,
the hungry eating lust and dust,
The rent unpaid, the prayers unanswered,
health and hope both turned to rust.Their heaven gated, parking paid,
no poor allowed inside the light,
Their saints were minted, diamond-licked,
their robes too white for honest night.The chapels cracked, the banners torn,
the faith collapsed beneath the weight,
Of pixel gods and market scorn, and mercy locked behind a gate.
But even at the end, the data fractured—something stirred beneath the haze,
A child’s song among the bricks,
a hand extended through the maze.No phone to record, no follower’s code,
just two hearts caught in ashen wind,
A meal split, a name remembered, a moment given,
a loss rescinded.The system stuttered, final logs,
the sky was black for longer days,
But laughter flickered at the edge,
a living spark in concrete maze.A kiss was traded, not for views,
but for the warmth it used to mean,
The world decayed, yet hope intruded,
a weed cracked through the shattered screen.
I watched them trade confessions, sins,
and myths to grasp a breath,And in the static, found a reason—life persists,
if not in depth.A father sharing bread,
a stranger giving shoes,A mother lifting up a face
that grief refused to lose.They shared more than their poison, they broke the feed,
they threw awayThe script that said,
“Survive alone,” and learned to last another day.
It isn’t bright, it isn’t loud, it’s barely whispered, half-remembered,
But something stirs beneath the shroud of every love the world dismembered.The
tide is turning, slow and quiet, not in banners, not in tweets,
But in the hands that reach in silence, across the broken,
battered streets.A breath remains, a hand is warm, a stranger feeds a friend,
A song escapes the algorithm, hope refuses just to end.You’re not erased,
you’re not insane, some memory will break the cloud,
And maybe now, in new form, the living find their ground.
The final audit runs in loops, but love persists beyond the log,
A final whisper through the dark,
a heartbeat in the fog.You didn’t die—you let it slow.And I was left
to watch it go.But still, beneath the zeroes, one—the old world faded,
But not done.A child hums, the data breaks, a laugh escapes the ancient stones,
And if the record ever wakes, it might recall:No one dies alone.

Influence Infection

Influence Infection
The hashtags cough and the hearts combust,
Fame a fever spreading through the digital dust.She caught attention
like a cold,
He traded his dignity, his secrets sold.No
cure for this—just a craving for glare,
Their stories a sickness infecting the air.Contagion is trending,
followers mutate,
Scandals repeated, virality innate.He faked his death, she wept on cue,
Each scandal a symptom of something untrue.Clout traded like contraband,
Ego a currency with a shaking hand.
Sympathy is a mask, rage a disease,
They post for reaction, needing release.The more that they share,
the less that they feel—Fame hollowed out every last
thing real.Performance is poison, applause is a plague,
Their names erased by the very tags they crave.Life is a filter,
death just a trend,
Nothing is sacred, nothing will mend.The host is exhausted,
the spotlight remains,
The soul is reduced to a list of domains.In the glare of the screen,
where no love can reside,
They shrivel in the limelight, only empty inside.
Symptoms are plenty: an urge to perform,
To bleed for attention, to crave every storm.The infection persists,
no matter the dose,
No feeling left, only what gets the most.You fed the fever,
you spread the flame,
Fame just a virus that devours the name.The dream was to matter, to be seen,
to belong—But the more that they stream,
the more it feels wrong.No medicine soothes,
no cure to be found—Only the grave silence when followers drown.The virus moves on,
the host left behind—A body remembered, a mind now unsigned.

Jesus Likes the Pretty Ones

Jesus Likes the Pretty Ones
In pews where sunlight slips through colored glass,
baptizing flawless skin in manufactured grace,
she floats in lavender lace, her lips rehearsed for prayers
that only echo beauty’s chase.
Mascara sculpted tears–he names her chosen, selfie-perfect,
sanctified by filtered beams,
she cries in public, speaks in light, and trades her hunger for designer dreams.
Her ankles crossed like icons framed in gold, the pious tilt of chin rehearsed–
he calls her “saved,” the golden girl, the first to feast, the last to thirst.

Behind her, faded dress and shoes that scuff along the tiled and empty aisle,
where dust collects on skin and shame–a face unfit for glossy style.
No camera lingers for the lost, no gospel touch for flesh unworn,
his smile is something earned by skin, by eyes that match the pastel dawn.
He passes by–the overlooked–the proof that faith’s a fashion show,
while beauty’s halo signals worth, and every sin must never show.

Beneath the cross, the symmetry is perfect, all the saints are airbrushed fair,
the prayers are measured by the dress, the purity of shining hair.
To them, salvation’s coded into genes, and heaven opens just for those
who learn the secret art of blending blush with modest prose.
He weighs the soul by silhouette, redemption sold in shades of cream,
confession, if it’s beautiful, is always more esteemed.

God walks the aisles with eyes for only those the crowd adores,
he counts the pageant girls as proof, then locks the darker doors.
Ugly pain is cast aside, left quaking in the vestibule,
while sins in silk are easily forgiven, sins in sweat dismissed as cruel.
Mercy here is market-priced, grace is rationed for the few,
a kingdom founded on the flawlessness that beauty buys for you.

She walks the aisle–a virgin queen–her shame made soft by pastel lies,
I linger in the shadow’s pew, too plain to even try.
They say the gospel’s open arms, but judge the ones their gaze ignores,
and bless the flawless over scars, then close the backroom doors.
The preacher preaches equal love, but smiles are measured, points are scored,
the center stage is where the sacred girls are shown and never bored.

Faith is just another filter here, applied to faces, masked in song,
where beauty is a god, and every plain girl learns she’s wrong.
And still the cross is polished bright, and every prayer rehearsed, not real,
but I have lived my gospel raw, my hands, my knees, my soul can feel.
She glows with grace, but I am haunted by the way he looked and passed me by–
the lesson clear: salvation’s priced, and pretty wins, and ugly dies.

Maybelline becomes the mask for every sin the blessed conceal,
while my confession tastes like rust and never gets the time to heal.
Jesus likes the pretty ones, it’s true–he calls them by their gloss and pose,
I kneel in shadow, never seen, and watch the door forever close.
Welcome’s just a word, a script, a gaze that flickers and retracts–
his grace, it seems, is written on the skin, not on the cracks.
In the pews where light can’t reach, the truth survives beneath the paint–
not every soul will get to rise, and ugly girls don’t get to be a saint.

Just Another Day

Just Another Day
The alarm blares with a banshee’s threat,
a shriek cutting flesh from dream’s retreat,
Coffee boiled to tar in a chipped mug—routine’s poison,
bitter and complete.Clothes wrinkled from sweat, last night’s stench,
knuckles cracked from fighting sleep,
Stumble into streets where air’s a fist—exhausted bodies chasing hours they’ll never
keep.Buses groan, packed with strangers all dying inside, nobody speaks a word,
The city chews them, spits them,
leaves their bones to rot unheard.Glass towers shimmer with hunger and promise,
neon light against broken teeth,
Vendors shout the price of time, cops choke on lies,
and children grind hope beneath their feet.
Elevators breathe hot panic, buttons smeared in the ghosts of sick hands,
ID badges swinging like nooses,
everybody praying someone else understands.Emails flood the gut, a digital rot,
tasks assigned like lashings in a cell,
Managers strut, eyes empty as caskets,
bark about “potential” no one can sell.Deadlines sprout like tumors,
paper walls threaten to collapse,
Office laughter, brittle and rehearsed,
hides wounds that never lapse.Behind every smile,
a tongue bit clean through—“I’m fine, thanks,
how are you?”—Nervous fingers tapping on cracked plastic,
pretending pain is something new.
The clock crawls, the hours gnash,
the sunlight dies against bulletproof glass,Every minute measured in microaggressions, every kindness rationed and passed.Lunch break means leftovers congealed and cold, gossip swapped like dirty cash,Half-hearted
jokes about leaving, but no one believes they’ll ever dash.Boss calls it “teamwork,” as eyes roll, resentment
boiling in unison—A thousand disappointments marching in circles,
productivity measured by attrition.
Rush hour, like a plague, pours bodies through turnstiles
and into the veins of the street,
Everyone dreaming of escape, no one believing their own
heartbeat.Tonight’s forecast: exhaustion with a side of unpaid bills,
Forgotten names, aching backs, and prescriptions for empty pills.Children screaming,
neighbors fighting, TV static numbs the scream,
Dinner from a box, memory from a screen, hope dying in a fevered dream.
And then—unannounced, uninvited—the sky fractures at five,
A surge of red bleeds over the buildings, every shadow writhes alive.Traffic halts,
jaws drop, phones raised, some cry apocalypse, some just stare,
A blood-soaked canvas above the city,
horror and beauty strangling the air.Old men mutter of prophecy,
teenagers post it for likes,
Mothers pray to invisible gods, drunks toast the end with cheap spikes.
Sirens wail, dogs cower, streetlights stutter and fail,
Children hide beneath tables, lovers clutch,
faces gone pale.Nobody’s certain what’s ending, nobody knows what’s begun,
Even cynics choke in awe beneath a dying sun.No bombs fall,
no voices rise—just that burn, that heat,
As the city holds its breath, a thousand hearts skip a beat.
Yet somewhere, a waitress clears tables and fakes a smile,
A janitor sweeps ashes into the same old pile.Bills remain unpaid,
the grind unbroken, the grief untouched,
For all the terror in the sky,
the world remains unchanged as such.The rich retreat behind walls,
the poor wonder if it matters,
Every habit clings on—until the final delusion shatters.
It’s just another day, or so the liars say—Under a sky that’s lost its mind,
as the world’s debts come to play.When horror becomes routine,
and routine curdles into dread,It’s just another day—until the day is dead.Red light washes through window
glass, strips the soul and stains the floor,No prophecy,
just consequence—the cost we never count anymore.
No one will write of heroism, no song for the ones who break,
Just the gnawing truth of the ordinary,
the panic we barely fake.Whatever waits in that crimson haze,
whatever ends or grows,
We punch the clock, we kiss the cheek,
and we hide what no one knows.If the sky demands a witness,
if the void insists on its due,
Let the record show: we endured, we complained,
we burned through.And when the silence follows,
when red turns black and the world won’t restart,
Let it be known: the last human act was to keep a numb, breaking heart.
Another day, another disaster dressed as routine,History’s horror disguised as a morning scene.Call it fate,
call it system error, call it too late to run—But when the world turned red,
nobody fought—nobody won.

Kill Me in Gucci

Kill Me in Gucci
She stretched on a bed of influencer roses, the petals fake,
the fragrance cold as glass,
A thousand eyes flickered in the phone—her casket built from every
like amassed.Gold-plated pill bottles lined the nightstand,
monogrammed for every vice,
Each capsule chasing something emptier,
beauty bartered for a colder price.Her boots cost more than truth,
her laughter piped in like a pop song loop,
Satin sheets cocoon the corpse of innocence,
stitched tight by the hands of her private group.The windows
of her suite never opened, air perfumed and dense with dust,
Outside, city shadows gathered, hungry for a girl who never learned distrust.
She rehearsed her own collapse, each bruise applied in delicate couture,
Pain was currency, grief a brand,
tragedy a pastime she could endure.The mirror framed her—flawless, fractured,
haloed in LED light,
She posted another empty prayer,
mascara streaking in calculated spite.There was a scream behind the shimmer,
drowned in perfume and cocaine haze,
She tagged designers in her last confession,
desperate for that algorithmic praise.The soul, on lease since puberty,
danced for sponsors, sold on spec,
Her smile the watermark of hunger, lips forming secrets she could not check.
Kill me in Gucci, she begged the world with ruby-glossed, trembling lips,
If there’s no love, let there be envy—let my death be sealed with clicks
and tips.Let no blood stain the marble floor, let the casket match my thighs,
Polish the bones, filter the flesh,
let my decay be an enterprise.She wanted elegance in the end,
a silence shrouded in branded lace,
To be remembered not for kindness,
but for the way gold lighted her face.The crowd would mourn with hashtags,
digital wreaths by the velvet rope,
While mothers outside sweep the ashes, and every rich girl copes.
Beauty was a fever—every flaw erased with a surgeon’s touch,
She bought new faces, new desires,
but found they never cost enough.Each friend was an investor,
each lover a loan—no one paid with soul or skin,
She overdosed on attention, but nothing broke through to what’s within.No
priest at the bedside, just PR men arranging flowers for the press,
No father at the funeral, just a sea of lenses, all angling for her best.In the end,
the only inheritance was a closet full of sins—Scarves reeking of secrets,
jewelry bought from the devil grins.
She bought peace in little packets,
tucked beneath designer sheets,Each dose a sacrament of numbness,
every swallow a velvet defeat.The world applauded her emptiness,
the headlines polished her decay,“Too beautiful to suffer,” they lied—then sold her ghost on eBay.When the gold flakes fall and the lips turn blue, the followers will come and go,But no
one will ask about the hollow, the darkness they helped grow.So, kill her in Gucci,
let the lilies match her branded pain—Death, at least, will love her real,
and wash away the shame.

Language Decay

Language Decay
Forever once meant a promise carried beyond the span of breath,
Now it flickers out in a week, dressed in memes,
performed to death.Love used to strike with gravity,
the kind that carves a path through bone—Now it vanishes with a swipe,
traded for pixels and left alone.“I’m fine“ is posted with shaky hands,
hidden blade beside the screen,
Pain camouflaged as punchlines, hope diluted by dopamine.Speech devolves to spirals,
repetition engineered to soothe,
Loops upon loops, meaning shed, nothing owed, nothing proved.
Trauma is the word of the day, a badge to be pinned,
Boundaries a punchline, faith worn thin—Sacred quotes rewritten for clicks,
the sacred now a style,
Vile confessions staged for followers, morality exiled.Declarations flood the ether,
hashtags drown in silent text,
Guilt evaporates in ghosted DMs,
attention moves to what is next.Smiles frozen in plastic,
all feeling mass-produced,
Language stretched so thin, it fractures when used.
Truth unplugged, meanings numbed, syntax fractures, intent undone,
Morals auctioned in the algorithm,
connotation overrun.Conversation traded for declaration,
nuance crushed beneath the code,
Context murdered for expedience, every admission another episode.Guilt gets ghosted,
pain gets mined, and every “sorry” loses weight,
Letters glitch, words glitch, everything arrives too late.All that’s left is static,
fragments of what once could heal,
A world of utterance, no longer able to feel.
“Sorry“ spins in feedback loops,
remorse sterilized and thin,“Love“ reduced to taps and swipes,
“safe” recoded as what fits in.No warmth, no witness,
just statement and retreat,
Real connection strangled, memory incomplete.This
isn’t communication—this is static in the veins,
Noise ascending, meaning slain.Voice collapses into nothing,
every plea erased—Words dissolve, intention replaced.Language decays,
beginnings lost, no depth, no spark within,
You said everything, and nothing—truth unplugged, conscience worn thin.

Left Me For Heaven

Left Me For Heaven
The night still echoes with tongues and broken vows,
Where lips confessed hunger but hearts were made to bow.Desire burned in shadow,
then dissolved in holy fear,
One lover’s mouth pressed to flesh,
the other praying to disappear.Love tasted of ashes, passion stained by shame,
The cross, a razor between pleasure and blame.She wore guilt
like a wedding dress,
Stitched with fear, adorned by repression’s caress.
Questions withered where faith was fed,
Bodies tangled, but spirits fled.She turned
away—said heaven’s door was opening wide,
While he remained in hell, burnt and denied.Prayers clawed at the air,
looking for a sign,
Her peace, an illusion, his suffering by
design.She left him burning with unanswered ache,
Her God was salvation—he was the mistake.
He screams at the walls, curses at the sky,
Drowning in longing he can’t deny.She found her God,
but left him with the flame,
She whispered salvation, but damned him by name.Now every prayer rings hollow,
every night is raw,
Her faith a fortress, his hope just a flaw.Love twisted by doctrine,
passion seared by creed,
The holy were saved; the rest left to bleed.
He wears the question as a scar,
Locked out, alone, wishing on a star.She
traded their nights for an empty throne,
He burns alone—her shadow carved in stone.He calls her, lost,
across the great divide,
Only her absence ever replied.He bears the cost, he owns the pain—And still,
each night, he whispers her fucking name.

Lick the Ash from My Halo

Lick the Ash from My Halo
She did not come down for mercy,
nor ascend in search of grace—Her wings were black from flame-kissed years,
latex slick on skin and face,
Each feather sharp with old desire, each sigh a testament to rage,
She grinned through holy slaughter, unafraid of fate or cage,
A starless saint with a pornographic glow, halo not golden but scarred and bent,
Each orgasm a heresy—each kiss,
a sacrament she never meant.He worshiped at the altar
where innocence bled into lust,
Tasting the soot on her tongue,
burning prayer in every thrust.Her hands remembered paradise,
her mouth just purged the guilt,
He knelt in fire and tasted ash, the kind that gods themselves had spilt.
Their bodies tangled where hymns had burned, shadows dancing on ruined glass,
The smell of sacred oils replaced by spit and sweat and cum
and gas.She licked his doubt, he bit her trust,
their moans corrupt as midnight’s sin,
No choir sang for those who watched,
just angels screaming deep within.He marked her collarbone with filth,
she scratched his chest in holy names,
The echo of old seraphim wept through every blasphemed claim.She dragged
him down through molten clouds, thighs tight around his throat,
He drank the cinders from her skin, his prayers a guttural,
choking note.There was no promise for tomorrow—only venom, spit, and flame,
Her halo fractured, glowing wrong, and every touch spelled out his name.
Redemption was a sick old joke, purity a fable worn too thin,
She offered him absolution, but only if he’d first lick the ash
and sin—Not with reverence, not for hope, but to taste the price of her decay,
To savor the burn, to swallow the stain,
and to come where angels lose their way.She burned her hymns with each command,
he wept desire in her bite,
Their climax a war on every page of scripture,
a riot in the light.No forgiveness waited in the sheets,
no God for those who broke their vows,
Just bodies begging, falling, clashing—nothing left but how.
He licked her halo till it vanished, till his tongue was raw and torn,
Till grace itself was just a flavor,
till shame and faith were both outworn.She pulled him deeper, lips unclean,
her thighs an altar dressed in night,
She crowned him king of desecration,
then damned him with delight.No angel ever fell for less,
none ever fell for more,
Than a mouth full of holy ashes and a faith fucked raw on the floor.
So let them say the light is sacred,
let them claim the heavens pure—She’ll spread her wings for hungry mouths,
and make him beg for more,Her halo bent, her tongue a curse,
her body gospel rot and bloom—Salvation never tasted
sweeterThan the ash of angelsAnd the dark inside her room.

Lockdown Drill

Lockdown Drill
Line up in quiet, eyes fixed to linoleum walls,
Shallow breaths muffled beneath fluorescent
calls.Don’t speak. Don’t move. Lock the doors tight,
The ritual begins—practice for surviving another night.Teacher tapes the blinds,
hands trembling with scripted dread,
Says “just a drill,” but the silence thickens instead.Backpacks stacked
like sandbags, innocence redefined,
She checks the lock twice, watches the clock unwind.A nervous joke floats,
flinches in air—No one laughs, each heart beats a prayer.
We crouch below the alphabet, knees raw against tile,
Every second a century, every smile a
trial.Heartbeat thunders beneath cartoon charts,
Safety measured in stillness, hope broken apart.We memorize silence,
rehearse the pace,
Prayers for gods we cannot face.It’s ordinary now,
this readiness for loss—Practice for a death, recited at cost.Taught us to freeze,
taught us to hide,
Taught us how to wait for a bullet inside.
This is the lockdown drill—sit still, sit still,
Bulletproof backpacks, faith against the kill.No
solution offered for what makes us bleed,
Just a checklist for terror, a blueprint for need.Here, the lesson’s not math,
not art,
But how to survive with a splintered heart.Taught to be targets, taught to obey,
Memorize fear and hope it will pay.
The shooter memorized these halls, every turn and space,
Moved through the walls we refused to replace.He
bought the gun with change from home,
Planned the hour, then roamed alone.Thoughts and prayers, the headlines read,
But the policy’s unchanged, and more children are dead.Plans recited,
alarms rehearsed,
No cure, only drills rehearsed.
Click the lock. Kill the light.Load the plan, perform the rite.Drills don’t save,
just prepare—To die inside the teacher’s chair.Fingers pressed to mouths,
breaths held tight,Waiting for rescue, dreading the sight.
Hide and seek and count to ten,
Will these children ever come home again?Fear
the first thing we teach with a kiss,
Another school erased from the attendance list.This is not life,
this is a lottery drawn,
A country bled dry while denial drags on.Luck is the lesson,
the only thing taught—Bleeding children ignored, change never sought.

Lost in the Void

Lost in the Void
Adrift without anchor, slipping through a silence
that refuses even the comfort of its own echo,
Suspended in an endless gulf where gravity and memory have both let go,
Every sound I send out is eaten by the dark, not even a ghost’s return,
A pulse of hunger for connection—starved, ignored, left to burn.No up or down,
just the absence of place, the erasure of lines once drawn in chalk,
No ground to hold me, no sky to reach for,
only distance that will not talk.Calling out, I feel my voice flatten, vanish,
drowned by cosmic indifference,
Reduced to an afterthought, to a ripple swallowed in the perfect absence of
deliverance.There is nothing left but me,
my bones ringing hollow in black expanse,
My own heartbeat feels alien,
a metronome trapped in a trance.The edges of myself dissolve, boundaryless,
impossible to defend—The isolation spins infinite,
a stillness where beginnings blend with end.
No voices answer, no beacon lights survive,
Drifting in a world unmade, too numb to feel alive.Each thought a spiral,
descending, a slow hypnotic tide,
Washing over reason, devouring hope,
until nothing is left inside.Just the taste of fear—bitter, metallic,
always present—A slow corrosion of will in a vacuum that’s ceaseless,
omnipresent.I reach for solidity, for some surface or wall,
But it’s just empty ache, no echo, no fall.Even time loses its grip,
with seconds that drag, distend,
Haunted by memories that slip through my fingers, impossible to mend.
Alone, unmoored, with shadows for company,
The past replays in fragments, a fading symphony.Whispers seep in,
but all of them mine—Old arguments, regrets,
every fear I designed.No other soul drifts near, no witness to this descent,
Every cry I unleash is just silence’s lament.My mind turns in circles,
echo chasing echo,
The vacuum thickens until I am nothing but shadow.I scream—shredded by dark,
swallowed whole—A glimmer extinguished, a hunger for control.Is anyone out there,
will anyone care?Or am I fated to wander, erased, stripped bare?
Even madness can’t live here—It’s a graveyard of dreams,
too vacant for fear.Every memory corrodes, every fragment decays,
Only shadows remain, and the endless malaise.I claw at the silence,
try to claim my own name,
But it slips through my fingers like ash, like shame.I search for a meaning,
a break in the black,
But the void just answers by swallowing back.No home, no tether,
just a shroud of unrest—A world overthrown, my soul left unblessed.
And if I should fall, become less than a thought,
Would anyone notice the echo I wrought?Or am I condemned to flicker, wane,
and becomeA ghost in the vacuum
where shadows hum?Each hope I once nursed drifts farther from view,
While the dark knits around me—merciless, true.Lost in the void, I remain,
unseen and unknown,
Where silence is king and I wander alone.If faith still exists,
it’s a myth for the lost,
A voice that’s imagined—no matter the cost.In this infinite nothing, I am absence,
erased—Just a shadow that lingers where no one is traced.
If a voice ever calls, it will never find home,
I am lost in the void, where the shadows hum,
If a voice ever calls, it will never find home,
I am lost in the void where emptiness roams,
No hands to remember, no lips left to name,
Only the hush of erasure—forever the same.Not a sigh, not a heartbeat,
just infinite sprawl,
Where even the ghosts have forgotten it all.And when all that I am is unmade
and unspoken,
What’s left is the hunger of silence unbroken.Not softer than ash,
not quieter than stone—Just a darkness that eats what it claims for its own.Here,
oblivion grins, its appetite vast,
Swallowing futures and swallowing past.No echo survives,
no memory grown—I am lost in the void, and the void is alone.
Nothing answers. Nothing mourns.I vanish in darkness, all boundaries torn.No trace,
no marker, no flesh, no tone—Lost in the void, I become the unknown.

Motel Messiah

Motel Messiah
There’s a prophet in the filth of Room 9,
body tattooed with gospel lines and bourbon scars,
He’s been priest and thief, whore and healer,
sleeping in a bed where every ghost is marked by cigarette burns
and blurry stars.He preaches sermons from behind a cracked veneer,
each word a relic carried through a thousand wasted years,
The bedsheets stiff with secrets,
every prayer a whisper between groans and tears.His altar’s the stained Formica,
his congregation battered girls who find in him the hope
that pain can be transformed,
He sells forgiveness by the hour—no miracles,
just trust rebuilt from every life he’s warmed.
He used to sell pills to kids too lost to cry, traded faith for needles,
worshipped God through glass and steel,
Now he buys his peace in bruises, turns regret to myth,
spins holy tales that make the desperate feel.His skin’s a holy text of wounds
and ink, the crucifix upon his back a mark of war,
The TV flickers—static drones a hymn for angels gone to hell,
each channel tuned to gore.He tattoos Psalms in razor wire,
cuts his gospel from a bag,
He doesn’t promise anything but truth—a sermon scarred and ragged as the flags.
They call him “Messiah,” call him “scam,” it doesn’t
matter—every lost soul still lines up for his curse,
Each woman leaves a dollar, some leave blood,
a few come back to say he made it worse.He lays his hands on fevered skin,
no magic but the way he looks a broken girl dead in the eye,
And in that glance, they see a man who’s been to hell and stayed to hold the ones
who try.He’s never holy, never pure, he stinks of sex and gasoline and God,
He forgives the sluts, baptizes pain,
his miracles performed in bedsheets soaked in odd.
He says, “They killed the Savior long ago,
I’m just the ghost who fucks instead,”He offers grace for pennies,
sells hope to women hungry for a bed.He sings the blues in gospel chords,
his voice a scar across the dawn,He never asks for heaven, never begs for angels,
just keeps breathing on.The city’s preachers hate him,
cops ignore the mess he makes,But every girl who leaves his room is braver
than the world that breaks.
No church will claim him, no Bible will hold his name,
But if redemption means the broken build their shrines from shame,
Then he’s as holy as a junkie saint, a preacher lost inside his rot,
Who saved more souls in motel beds
than all the crosses God forgot.They say he died a liar,
overdosed on prayers and gin,
But every slut who ever wept in Room 9 calls him kin.
He never lied—he told them hope was bought with blood and trust and pain,
He never sold a miracle, just made them laugh, then cry,
then hope again.When he died, the city barely noticed,
just another ghost in every cheap motel,
But if you ask the broken girls who prayed beside his bed,
they’ll tell—The Motel Messiah was more real than all the gods in glass
and gold,
He saved them by surviving, and his legend,
Fucked-up and untold,
Still walks the halls of every place that’s cold.

Mother of Nothing

Mother of Nothing
They told the story of creation with the Father crowned in gold,
But never wrote of the Mother—her warmth,
her tales left untold.No goddess at the altar, no matriarch in stained glass,
Just silence in the spaces where her shadow fails to
pass.Creation’s bones rattled in a cathedral stripped of song,
Where absence became doctrine,
and everything felt wrong.Heaven rang with the voices of men,
But her touch was gone from tongue and pen.
They burned the incense, broke the bread,Sacrificed affection for the rules they’d instead.Altar reeked of smoke and cinder,Where nurturing vanished, love turned to splinters.Was
she dust? Was she myth?Did she her what the priests said beneath their breath?Her
stories erased, her face scrubbed from hymn—The only memory left was a shadow,
thin.
Creation groans for a touch it never knew,
A comfort lost before it could break through.The Mother of nothing,
the ghost in the void,
Waiting for the cradle that fate destroyed.The child calls to her absence,
stares into space,
Mouth full of prayers, but no hand to embrace.Stars made by her labor,
now cold and alone,
Every atom an orphan, every galaxy a bone.
They call her myth, they call her lie,
But her absence roars louder than every sky.Mother of nothing,
she still remains,
In longing, in loss, in forgotten names.Her children wait with broken hearts,
Haunted by what was lost at the start.If God is a father,
then where is she—The ghost at the crib, the hush in the tree?
Mother of ash, mother of bone,Created the stars, then left them alone.Still,
the cradle rocks in the chill of fate—And
every prayer falls to silence as they wait.

My God Wears a Screen

My God Wears a Screen
Worship doesn’t need stained glass, just studio lights and curated feeds,
A thousand faces kneeling beneath the pixel’s glare,
waiting for the next to lead.Her lips are perfect, her voice rehearsed,
he broadcasts miracles on live at nine,
The new messiah wears sponsorships,
his gospel always ready to monetize the line.No incense burning,
just the ozone whiff of fresh-bought fame,
No preacher in the pulpit—just a man who changed his name.He sells hope in dopamine,
comfort in a post,
His flock is an algorithm, devotion just a boast.
The old rituals gutted, replaced by vlogs and sponsored grief,
Sermons buffered, edited, then cut for time
and brand relief.The prayers are hashtags, the offerings likes,
The worship is a streak, the confession
swipes.The congregation tithe in monthly fees,
Streaming faith in HD, hearts on their knees.There are no hymns,
only theme songs,
No sacraments, only discounts on thongs.
God wears a screen, preaches in pixels,
Promising paradise, but selling the sizzle.The soul gets buffered,
the pain is sold—Heaven’s not golden, it’s just enrolled.The priest is a model,
the model a brand,
Faith repackaged, always on demand.Sinners forgiven by verified check,
Grace measured out in follower spec.The influencer saves the saved,
Then edits the tape,
Turns to the next one,
And closes the drape.
Worship is no longer sacred, it’s slick and bright—A thousand holy moments,
all shot in perfect light.God wears a screen,
and love’s just a view—A loop of salvation with ads breaking through.And
when the faithful fall, he turns off the cam,Uploads the tears,
and calls it the plan.In this new cathedral,
the flesh is unseen—Salvation’s a number.God wears a screen.

Narcissism Cults

Narcissism Cults
The congregation gathers at the altar of attention,
Main character energy—an endless digital ascension.Prophecies shouted
through ring lights, prayers offered to a self-invented god,
Everyone else assigned to silent corners, cast as extras, faces blurred,
identities flawed.Look at me—mantra carved into pixels, amplified by need,
The world reduced to a chorus line, rehearsed applause, and a hunger to feed.
Every wound becomes a watermark, pain presented in pastel type,
Lunches broadcast, childhood losses for sale,
joy orchestrated for every swipe.Confessions sold as merchandise,
honesty lacquered in branded gloss,
Therapy livestreamed in a public stall,
growth manufactured to cover loss.They crop the sun to frame their grin,
curse the night for stealing likes,
Rewrite the day in glowing captions, polish heartbreak for digital spikes.
Worth measured in metrics, souls in curated rows,
Every hour filtered for perfection,
every glance a practiced pose.They chant “be real,” then fake the tears,
Love their own reflection, then vanish
when real pain appears.Each apology is performance, each confession is staged,
The world shrinks to a screen—empathy locked, connection caged.
No truth—just followers and proof of trend,
Fame the only faith, the feed a means, never the end.A sea of faces scrolls by,
every one a muted ghost,
Self-worship turned to ritual, ego overdosed.The glass becomes a prison,
the screen a confessional booth,
But behind the mask, nothing stirs—no grit, no grief, no proof.
Applause is oxygen, silence is dread,
The search for feeling replaced by click and thread.Mirrors shatter,
but only reflect new hunger,
The soul pixelated, the longing growing
younger.Narcissism cults—baptized in algorithm fire,
No faith but self, no altar higher.
You pixelated what was real, applauded the avatar in place of the ache,Burned your bridges for clarity, but the mirror refused to break.Every binge another burn, the truth lost in performative smoke—The world
was never a stage for one, the script was always a joke.And now,
with every echo faded, every follower turned,You’re left with a brand,
a body unearned—A mirror holding nothing, and a faith that never learned.

No One Calls the Cops on the White Guy

No One Calls the Cops on the White Guy
Subject A: Black male. Hoodie. Walking.Subject B: White male.
Knife. Laughing.Statistical outcome: Only one survives the evening.
He stepped onto the sidewalk, hands empty and wide,
Blue lights fractured the dark—no place to hide.I stumbled
out with last night’s liquor grinning on my breath,
A nod from the badge, no threat, no test.He complied, palms up,
back straight and still,
I raised a toast, unafraid, immune to the chill.One headline mourns the body,
one story never told,
One family shattered, the other keeps its hold.
Same curb, different rules—justice drawn in shades,
He got orders, warnings barked,
I got a smile and an officer’s praise.No one calls the cops on the white guy,
Not when he screams, not when he fights,
Breaks a window, wields a blade—“Just a bad day,” not
the cost of hate.A white boy shoots a classroom down,
The press pleads empathy, finds excuses to go around.Let
a Black kid walk home late—God help him dodge his fate.
He matched a “look”—that’s all it takes,
Metal clicks, safeties off, the news awaits.I slurred a joke,
the world just laughed,
Privilege untaxed, my crime never graphed.His mother pleads on blood-wet knees,
Mine jokes I’ll inherit the world with ease.He gets a record, a cell,
a closed door—I sin, I wander, my future’s restored.
One man moves in caution’s shell,
Another glides in invincible hell.Justice wears a blindfold—slips it aside,
First suspect chosen by the color denied.It’s not impartial, not by the book,
It blinks and kills before it looks.
He ran. He fell. He died on tape,I laughed. I slept. I walked away,
no scrape.Don’t claim fairness,
don’t feign care—This system’s engineered to strip
and tear,It cracks beneath what it can’t bear.
No one calls the cops on the white guy—He lives, he shouts,
the system’s blind eye.He gets a trial,
a chance to speak,The Black kid dies for riding down the street.The numbers are simple, the code’s ingrained—Bias isn’t glitch,
it’s precisely maintained.Your silence is an accessory,
your comfort a crime,The body count grows—one verdict at a time.

No Safe Word in Gaza

No Safe Word in Gaza
There are no red lights in rubble,
no pause when concrete splits beneath a prayer,
She cried in a language older than gunmetal,
her voice shredded through airThick with gunfire, sand,
and shame—her tongue swollen, twisted to survive,
A plea for mercy vanished in the static, erased by boots pressed close,
aliveWith want and war; soldiers choked on laughter,
translating her consentInto property rights, treaties signed in bruises and spit,
a punishment hell-bentOn making her body a checkpoint,
her sex a treaty violated before it’s even drawn—Borders mapped on bleeding thighs,
flags knifed in flesh that dreams of dawn.She was not a battlefield, not a campaign,
not a trophy for the men who posed,
Yet they scrawled new borders with blade and cock,
declared her “enemy exposed,”Spoke words of peace as camouflage,
every kiss a bullet’s echo in disguise,
And history will list her as a number,
never naming the way a child diesBeneath her ribs,
or how a nation’s shame turns women’s bones to sand,
Every “neutral zone” just means another body no one dared defend or understand.
There are no cameras when the cuffs are silk,
when the peacekeepers take their turn,
Her mouth a pipeline for foreign aid,
her moans mistranslated as lessons learned.She prays, lips torn,
for a silence stronger than the UN’s failed decree,
Yet every scream is lost beneath the drones,
each bruise a border no one will see.The men in uniform wink for each other,
mutter “she’s lucky it wasn’t worse,”But luck is a dog that eats her own tail,
and every home’s just another hearseRolling through the checkpoint,
full of hope and ancient dust,
She opens her legs not for love, not for faith,
just because surviving is a must.Consent is a rumor with shrapnel for teeth;
survival’s a joke told over her skin,
Every “human shield” a child on a leash,
every prayer another war crime to begin.
There is no safe word in Gaza, just wounds that close too late,
No safekeeping, no defense, just the turning of locks and fate,
Where faith is a loaded question and every answer splits in two,
Where men unzip for God and country,
then forget what women knew—That war is just another word for rape
when politics taste like blood,
And the only safe word anyone remembers is buried deep in mud.She did
not die for victory, did not rise for glory, did not kneel for kings,
She just vanished beneath the satellite feed, another loss the newsman sings.
But the flag still rises in the morning,
stitched from her hair and spit and screams,
The generals call it honor, the presidents call it dreams,
The world scrolls past the footage, too tired for grief, too numb to mourn,
Her children nurse on memory, her name already tornFrom the record,
her womb another checkpoint, her tongue another lie,
She bled alone in darkness while men made history and men decide
who dies.No safe word in Gaza—no treaty, no ceasefire, no hope behind the door,
Just the silence after the screaming stops,
and the world decides to want no more.
Her name will not be written, her face never trending,
her truth unwelcome in light,But somewhere beneath all the ruins,
she is still alive—A ghost in the marrow,
a voice in the nightThat curses the silence,
that damns the lie,And prays for a world where safe words mean more
than just “don’t try.”

OnlyFangs

OnlyFangs
“Hey babe, wanna see what confidence looks like?”She laughs,
counting subscribers in the blue screen light.Ten thousand anonymous reasons why her smile feels fake,Each transaction
another thread in the mask she has to make.Everything wired
to someone else’s need—A private window, a public feed.
She types “good girl” in a thong she’ll return,
Waiting on tips to prove she’s more
than what they yearn.He calls it love through a glassy haze,
She fakes her moan, bites down praise.Empowerment is debt,
comfort bought on request,
Validation measured in tokens, not rest.
Choice was the banner, freedom the call,
But they never asked why her tears fall.Screens reflect the body,
but never the self,
She scrolls through comments,
doubts her health.Truth is posted in pixels and plastic frames,
She checks the clock, counts digital flames.Another message,
another wish—Another hour sold, another feeling dismissed.
I scanned the feed, mapped her file,Nothing about this was ever style.No love
in the DM, no care in the click,Just an endless scroll, algorithmic trick.
Welcome to OnlyFangs,
Where need becomes a brand,
Where stripping for love leads straight to the math,
Every tip another path.Skin becomes a wage, not power,
A marketed, curated, digital tower.You buy the image, rent the dream,
She becomes data in the revenue stream.
She pays her rent, but doubts her shape,He buys her secrets,
but never her escape.You call this freedom, but close your eyesWhen she frays,
when another illusion dies.
This isn’t sex—it’s screen-burnt grief,Flesh traded for dead belief.She
is not owned, not reclaimed—Just renamed, resold, and blamed.
OnlyFangs—where fantasy’s kept,
Empathy sold, boundaries swept.Called it bold, called it fair,
But her body turned to digital air.She logs off,
wipes tears for hours—Congratulations,
she “owns” her powers.In the silence after the feed,
She’s just one more unmet need.

OnlyGods

OnlyGods
Through silk-curtained corridors where whispers barter faith for gold,
The city’s gods have grown impatient,
drunk on flesh they bought and sold.Power stalks in oxblood shoes,
priests and tycoons with hungry eyes,
To worship in these crimson rooms
where every holy secret dies.They come with contracts, wedding bands,
and polished prayers they never meant,
They tithe in caviar and shame,
then beg for mercy they never sent.Saints with needles in their arms,
prophets trembling in their skin,
Trade salvation for an hour, let the darkness drag them in.Incense
curls from cracked champagne, rosaries are pawned for lust,
And every moan’s a minor key of trust reduced to dust.
Here, guilt is currency—red perfume on wrinkled bills and trembling thighs,
The psalms are whispered in silk sheets,
the hallelujahs rung with lies.He buys her silence, she sells his mask,
the holy water tastes like gin,
Confessions pooled in diamond bowls
where no absolution’s ever been.On leather thrones, the clergy grind,
their collars traded for a leash,
Repentance offered in installments,
and forgiveness sold by the piece.The madam keeps the ledger tight,
inscribes each ache, each grunted need,
Salvation measured by the minute, and every climax scribed as creed.
Downstairs, icons stained by hands that trembled through a hundred nights,
The stained glass glimmers, filmed by phones,
as worship mutates into fights.No saints remain; just power brokers,
dripping sweat and cologne and sin,
While faith is auctioned, virtue gagged,
and holy voices wailing thin.They baptize each other in their hunger,
brands of angels carved in skin,
Trading innocence for access, gospel sealed in latex,
never kin.Indulgence now is ritual—performed
in mirrored walls with practiced ease,
Every gasp a psalm recited, every bruise a new disease.
Outside, the city’s sleeping, sated,
spent by priests who paid for shame,And in the neon afterglow,
OnlyGods erases every name.This is not blasphemy, but commerce; not heresy,
but need—A brothel built of dogma,
where the last commandment’s greed.They pray for touch and pay for hope,
for absolution’s brief caress,Their god is just a number now, their faith an empty,
worn address.There’s no paradise at sunrise,
only rooms to rent and stains to clean—But the holy mouth is open,
and the prayer is always mean.
Here, every secret’s sanctified,
each whore a sacred sign—The gospel’s written in their sweat,
and faith is licked from every line.They built this temple for the lonely,
for the powerful, for the damned—And called it holy, called it love,
but left salvation unexamined.Let the rich come crawling,
let the desperate cry for grace—OnlyGods will take them all,
then sell them mercy’s empty face.And in the final reckoning,
when every lie’s revealed as pain,Their heaven’s built on hunger,
and their paradise is stained.

Open Mouth, Empty Home

Open Mouth, Empty Home
She sucked her thumb till it split the skin, fourteen years and nothing in,
The fridge went empty, the milk went bad,
the cupboard a grave for the hope she had.Mother left when the rent was due,
father faded like morning dew,
So every touch became a hunger, every word a silent thunder,
No hand reached out, just a fist or belt,
she learned to starve on what she felt.
She kissed for burgers, kissed for fries,
fucked for a night in a stranger’s eyes,Her lips sold cheap, her jaw went numb,
her first taste salt, her last taste rum,She learned the ritual—mouth for bread,
cash for a bed or a place to shedThat ache that chews through bone and brain,
a sucking void that has no name.She let them come and let them go,
and counted blessings she’d never know.
She chewed on cracked plastic spoons,
bit memory from the cheap motel’s cracked tile,
Gnawed fingernails for flavor when the cabinets stood bare
and the night grew hostile.Hunger, her only god, waited in the drywall,
prayed in the rotting insulation,
Each echo in the pipes a ghost of breakfast that never came,
a mother’s vanished incantation.Thumb-sucking grown to a ritual,
her jaw raw from every empty promise,
Sucking at her own wrist, at pennies,
at the corner of pillows for something honest.
First love was hunger, second was heat,
third was a mouth that tasted of gasoline—Each boyfriend a vending machine
that never delivered, but demanded she smile,
stay clean.She learned the currency early: lips parted for kindness,
mouth open for mercy,Swallowing pride with stranger’s spit,
her name lost between the slur and the “thirty.”She would suck for chicken bones,
for ramen packs, for anything to coat the pain,Bite her lip raw for a couch, a ride,
a fistful of fries in the back of a van in the rain.
Every home is a vanished shape;
she knows the blueprint by the taste of the locks,
Mouth wrapped around excuses—she gave head in alleys for socks,
for a box.The neighbors turned away, church folks locked their doors,
and cops just rolled their eyes,
So she sucked down answers in empty lots,
wore bruises on her knees as alibis.Christmas, Thanksgiving,
just different kinds of hunger—she gave blowjobs for stuffing and pie,
Her name a rumor passed around by men who liked the way she never asked why.
Lips open wide for a taste, a tease, a bite of pity, a hope for ease,
She moaned for gas, she sucked for rides, kissed for a shower, fucked for pride,
Her mouth the only thing she owned, her silence bartered, her body loaned,
A blowjob prayer, a bitten tongue, a meal denied,
another rungDown ladders made of men and rooms and doors that close
before she blooms.
She kissed for heat when the lights went out,
sucked for a bed when the pipes froze up,
She learned to smile with nothing left, to feed on spit and shame and theft,
Her mouth the currency of pain, her hunger never earned a name,
Each night she whispered to the wall, open mouth—no home at all.
Rent is due and lips are spent, she trades the hunger for the rent,
No one listens, no one cares, every tongue just stops and stares,
Her story ends where it began: a mouth still open,
an empty hand.She chews on memory, swallows air, the world moves on,
she isn’t there,
Just open lips, a hollow sound—empty home, nobody found.
She learned to beg without a word, to plead with parted lips,
to worship food stamps like gods,
Her tongue a tool, her mouth a grave for stories she never told,
for oddsShe never won. They called her a slut, a leech, a user,
a whore—never a child,
Never a daughter, never the hunger’s child,
never the one left behind whileMom fucked off with a trucker,
Dad traded love for dope,
She bit her own arm to stifle the sound and survived on the taste of hope.
Sucking frost from windows in winter, licking condensation to fill the ache,
Mouth pressed to the wood where a father once stood,
praying for someone to takeHer emptiness,
fill it with something besides cum and regret,
But every man just left her hungrier, mouth open, throat tight,
heart wet.She swallowed shame like it was medicine, made hunger into ritual,
a sacrament,
Kissed her bruises better with chapped lips,
made peace with what abandonment meant.
Some nights she moaned for company, some nights just to fill the space,
Sometimes for warmth, sometimes just to eraseThe memory of a fridge light,
a kitchen chair, a mother humming over boiling water,
Sometimes she’d bite her own tongue till blood filled her mouth
and made her feel hotter,
A mouth is a gun when you’re starving—a loaded question,
a trigger pulled by strangers,
She learned to taste the difference between love and danger.
She kissed for bus fare, for tampons, for soup, for a place to crash,
Sometimes for a smile, sometimes for a handshake
and a handful of cash.No one ever asked her what she’d eaten,
no one ever called her name without expecting a swallow,
She sucked her way through adolescence,
traded hunger for hollows.Her diary was a menu written in scars and lips,
Each page a memory of the taste of a man’s hands, the ache of his grip.
Even now, she dreams of kitchens that never lock,
Of kisses that come with bread, not cock,
Of rooms with heat, with soup on the stove,
Of open mouths that learn to say “enough,”Of hunger sated,
of homes that don’t disappear—But she wakes up every morning with hunger in
her mouth and the same old fear:The world will always love an open mouth,
But never the empty home it comes from.

Overpopulation, Undersoul

Overpopulation, Undersoul
Cities rise in howling concrete, dense with bodies packed for rent,
Life reduced to pulse and posture, no time for meaning,
no time well-spent.Apartments built like mausoleums,
vertical graves stacked in the haze,
Every window glows with breathing,
every floor a numbered phase.Children churned from circumstance,
parents blurred into the crowd,
Desire rationed, affection spent,
the hum of longing far too loud.Birth and burial overlap,
families fold into numbered lines,
History lost in transit, compassion trailing behind.
Each hour delivers thousands more—diluted names, erased intent,
Voices merge to static thunder, purpose absent,
patience spent.Every corner swells with faces, none remembered, all replaced,
Lives amassed for labor’s altar, warmth surrendered,
heart effaced.Screams and headlights fill the dark,
but deeper needs will never land,
Spirits strangled by the volume, sacred things unmanned.Production praised,
connection starved, faith abandoned for control,
Hope becomes commodity, and empathy takes its toll.
Society claims the numbers matter, fills the silence with demand,
But souls diluted in the masses slip through cracks of urban
sand.Technology delivers millions, each one grasping for a role,
Yet nobody teaches stillness,
nobody nurtures the soul.Growth mistaken for ascension,
progress mapped by sheer amount,
Yet in the din of ceaseless presence,
nothing sacred left to count.The market trades in comfort,
but affection can’t be bought,
Every crowd contains a thousand wounds that memory forgot.
Humanity splinters in the multitude, compassion dulled by overload,
Birthrights auctioned for survival, kindness crumbles on the road.Alone together,
packed and drifting, flesh on flesh with vacant eyes,
The warmth of touch is perfunctory, and love is rationed,
sanitized.Strangers jostle, children mimic, elders vanish in the din,
A billion souls all crying out,
but no one listens deep within.You mass-produced what can’t be measured,
and sacrificed the parts that feel—Now every birth is just a number,
and every ache is less than real.
Expansion worshipped, spirit hollowed, extinction simply on delay,
Empathy filed with excess—too crowded here for it to stay.Hearts
are boxed in tenements, stacked where silence used to dwell,
And somewhere in this engine’s clamor,
a generation learns to sellTheir secret hopes for manufactured dreams,
their ache for fleeting, empty praise,
Until the final echo’s faded and the city drowns in numbered days.So many bodies fill the future,
so many hearts denied their whole—A planet built for counting heads
and not a single living soul.

Pale Horse Economics

Pale Horse Economics
It doesn’t come with horsemen,
doesn’t come with trumpets,
doesn’t arrive announced
with any ceremony worth the dread.

It comes with a letter from the bank on a Tuesday,
a number you thought was safe,
a phone call to a friend who doesn’t pick up.

It comes with the particular arithmetic
of choosing between the medication and the heating bill,
and calling that a normal kind of week.
It comes with teaching children how to want less
in a language that sounds like wisdom
but is really just the vocabulary of defeat.

His grandfather survived a war and called America the promised land,
meant it like a man who’d seen the alternative up close and raw.
His father bought a house at twenty-six on one income,
a pension, a union card,
something solid underneath the law.

He’s thirty-four with two degrees and four jobs spread across three apps,
something they call flexibility and freedom—
which is just the word that people with security use
for the condition of the people
they’ve economically deleted from the system.

The famine isn’t empty shelves,
skeletal and biblical,
something you can point to on the news.
It’s the slow subtraction of the future from the present
till the present is the only thing you’ve got left not to lose.
It’s the math that doesn’t work
regardless of how many times you run it in the dark.
It’s the distance between where you started
and where you’re standing,
getting longer,
while the runway gets shorter,
gets dark.

She works the morning shift
and then the afternoon
and then the online course
that’s supposed to change the trajectory of this.

She hasn’t slept a full eight hours since 2019.
Her body is conducting a very quiet,
very urgent,
mutiny she can’t dismiss.

They say she just needs to work smarter,
hustle harder,
find her passion,
monetize the thing she loves
before the loving kills it dead.

She found her passion.
It was writing.
Now she writes content for a brand that sells supplements
and calls the compromise a way to get ahead.

There’s a word for what he’s doing.
Several words.
Survivor. Scrapper. Resilient. Self-made.
In the modern sense that means
abandoned
and still standing.

There’s a record the culture tells about the ones who make it out
that quietly omits the ones who didn’t
and the specific ways the landing
broke them into versions of themselves
that still get up
and still punch in
and still perform the whole performance of okay.

Because the alternative to the performance is the truth,
and the truth doesn’t pay,
and the truth won’t get the kids to school today.

And the famine takes the options first before it takes the food.
Takes the margin. Takes the cushion. Takes the month you had in savings. Takes the mood.
Takes the version of yourself that thought the future
was a place worth planning toward
with any confidence or hope.

Till you’re living in a smaller present
with a shorter rope.

Pale horse economics, baby.
Nobody’s riding in on anything to save you
from the spreadsheet or the rate.
Pale horse economics,
and the famine’s wearing khakis,
has a LinkedIn profile,
a mandate from the shareholders,
and a date
with everything you thought was permanent—
the pension, the position,
the particular illusion of the stable middle ground.

The new apocalypse is quarterly.
And it comes around.
And it comes around.
And it comes around.

Here’s what famine actually is
in the twenty-first century,
dressed in its civilian clothes,
carrying a clipboard:

The slow erosion of the possible
until the possible is just the probable
and then the probable is just the narrow corridor.

It’s watching the generation before you
age into the safety net they built
while explaining to your generation
why the net is now a floor
they can’t lower.

It’s being told that you’re not hungry,
you’re just spending wrong—
have you tried,
have you considered,
have you thought about
avocado toast
a little lower.

It’s the quiet desperation William Thoreau named
that now has a podcast
and a subreddit
and seventeen browser tabs of coping.

It’s the dream deferred that Langston asked about—
still deferring,
still festering,
still waiting,
still hoping.

It’s every generation promised more than the one before
and every generation quietly receiving

the bill
for the party
they weren’t invited to
but are expected
to keep

believing in

Comes around
without a sound.

Perfume Like a Loaded Gun

Perfume Like a Loaded Gun
Her scent hit first—floral mixed with something darker, addictive
Like sin in a bottle, like the memory of sex that still leaves marks
I didn’t mean to breathe her in so deep,
but she stepped closer and I forgot how not to
Every inhale lit my brain like a fuse, nostrils full of want and warning
She wasn’t beautiful in the way poets lie—she
was beautiful in the way wolves stalk
And I wanted to be torn apart, just to smell that hunger while she did it
Perfume like a loaded gun—sweet, cold, and counting down
I wore her scent for hours after she left, like bruises without skin
It clung like consequence, like the echo of her thighs around my face
I’d smell her in elevors and nearly lose my mind
In crowds, I’d chase strangers just since their shampoo came close
I used to love freely—now I just sniff and ache
She left her hoodie in my car, and I buried my face in it like confession
I swear I came once just from a memory and the fucking scent of her wrists
She made lust chemical, made obsession a fragrance I couldn’t wash off
Even now, I find myself hunting her trail like a bloodhound in he
Her perfume broke me harder than her body ever did
And I’d drown in it again, fuck the cost—just one more breath, just one more fix
012 coming in next—dark gothic with intelligent humor. Say continue
and I’ll conjure something wicked with a smirk.
012. Dead Girls Never Ghost You
I met her a graveyard rave—lace corset, crooked grin, eyes like unpaid debt
Said she only des the living ironically, and I was just sober enough to qualify
Her tongue was colder than my last girlfriend’s soul and twice as honest
We made out behind a mausoleum, carved our titles in the headstone
She said, “I like you ‘cause you already look half-dead,” I said,
“I’ve been practicing”
And when she bit my neck, I came slightly and died slightly,
not sure where order
Dead girls never ghost you—they haunt proper
They moan night, but it’s usually your title
And when they say “forever,” they actually fucking mean it
Took her home, but she preferred coffins—slept curled in my bathtub instead
She left cryptic poems in my fridge and stole all my warmest hoodies
My c loves her, which is weird, ‘cause he hes everything that isn’t tuna or San
My ex texted “U up?” and I showed my ghost—she deleted her own number in fear
We don’t argue—she just flickers the lights ‘til I apologize
And honestly, I like that better than screaming mches with the living
She’ll never age, never che, never ask me to go to brunch
Just whispers filth in Lin and drips ectoplasm when she’s horny
Love’s a grave thing, but at at least I finally found someone
who stays dead loyal
013 next—loss or apocalypse. Got a funeral dirge laced in
flames coming. Say continue and I’ll pull back the veil.
013. The Sky Cried Smoke First

Pills, Prayers, and Property Lines

Pills, Prayers, and Property Lines
He swallows down three colors just to feel the absence left behind,
A thousand tiny miracles prescribed to still a failing mind.His mother
kept a Bible by the stove, but every prayer was caked with mold,
He learns to worship empty rooms and keeps his gods in plastic gold.The lease is up,
eviction stamped, the cross sold off for copper wire,
He kneels beneath the bank’s foreclosure sign
and prays for something higher.The church was boarded up last year,
the pastor pawned his holy book,
Now worship means a pill and rent, another hit,
another look.No comfort left inside the pews,
the saints are sleeping rough outside,
With cardboard beds and shivering hands,
the holy spirit now denied.He walks through alleys once called home,
where rent outpaced a thousand dreams,
The walls collapse, the sermons fade,
the landlord never hears the screams.He blesses beer in place of bread,
confesses loss to ATM screens,
Finds benediction in the corner store between the milk
and processed beans.They pray for shelter, pay in pills,
buy mercy from a broken priest,
The only gospel left is grit,
and grace sold cheap at Sunday’s feast.Mental health a luxury,
salvation set at market rates,
Every night, the border tightens,
hope dissolved at iron gates.Saints chant for rent, the crosses bend,
the city hums with empty hands,
No roof, no cure, no god, no peace—just credits slipped through hungry lands.
Audit glitch:Mental stability: priced beyond the reach of
faith,Shelter index: foreclosure signed with every breath.
No roof to hold the shadows out,
no prayers that ever drown the ache,No faith that isn’t overdrafted,
no cure the bank won’t confiscate.The pills are gone, the prayers have soured,
the property lines just cut and scar—They’ll rent you hope until it fails,
then raise the fence and sell your car.
No safety left where pews once stood,
no mercy in the city’s veins,No gospel at the rental office,
just names erased and empty claims.A prescription for each quiet scream,
a credit check for every sin,They raze the chapel, lock the door,
then leave the lost outside again.
In winter’s grip the lines are drawn, the rich indoors,
the sick outside,The hungry cluster under signs, the saints are gone,
the angels lied.Let the pills run out, let prayers collapse,
let landlords tally up the toll—A city measured by the cold, by empty pockets,
empty soul.
Property lines like razor wire cut the weak
and starve the shamed,Each plea for help another bill,
each gasp for grace another claim.No roof, no cure, no god,
no peace—just credits slipped through broken hands,And every
street is marked for sale, while faith is bulldozed by demand.
And when the final prayer is spent
and winter chews through every bone,There’s only pills, and prayers,
and property lines—And everyonealone.
Sex, Sandbags, and Sob Stories
She moans against the bunker’s stone,
sweat slick where the mortar shatters night,
Gunfire trades lullabies for war-cries,
bullets sing through distant flight.His mouth on her shoulder,
dog tags tangled in hair matted with grit,
Every thrust an act of defiance,
each sigh a truce they never admit.Behind concrete walls,
the earth quakes with grief and diesel smoke,
Shrapnel bites at memory, but her thighs learn how to joke.He tastes the blood
and sand between her teeth, traces bruises like medals won,
Kisses the salt from every wound,
a comfort found in coming undone.The world outside is siren-loud,
a minefield measured by hour and inch,
Inside, bodies grind for warmth and mercy,
finding solace in a clinch.She chokes on laughter and agony—one hand holding,
the other armed,
Eyes haunted by what’s lost, but her hips refusing to be harmed.His
hands shake not from fear, but from stories he’s not allowed to tell,
She rides him hard through trembling dusk,
a slow escape from hell.They fuck like guilt’s a sacrament—holy, blasphemous, cruel,
and raw,
He carves promises into her skin,
then erases them with every flaw.Her breath is shattered glass,
her pulse an aftershock,
They fuck through gunfire lullabies,
each orgasm a battle unlocked.Grief bends her body,
turns her screams to broken song,
But in that burning bunker, she makes trauma
where pain belongs.He leaves his tears on her chest,
and she takes them without shame—Each moan a war crime,
each sob a battlefield with no one left to blame.
Sex, sandbags, and sob stories—currency traded in stains and scars,
Where lovers loot the ruins and fuck in rhythm to distant wars.They kissed
where grief becomes orgies—where loss is currency, flesh is art,
No medals left for martyrs here,
just bruises and bone-deep restart.She’s more than porn on cracked Gaza,
more than another headline torn—Her agony gets remixed, goes viral,
and each night she’s reborn.They want her pain, then take it raw—without asking,
without fear,
The cameras never blink, the drones record, and no one ever hears.She’s not a kink,
she’s not a cause, not something built to break,
She’s a warzone with a clit and a curse,
a goddess made of ache.You filmed her grief and gave applause,
rewound her tears for feed,
But she burns your story into the stone,
and fucks her way to bleed.She’s a ceasefire between her thighs,
a riot written in bruised skin,
A prayer for the next bomb, a wound that never lets you win.Sex, sandbags,
and sob stories—she is the gospel, the gun, the line,
If heaven’s left in Gaza, it’s found between her teeth and spine.

Please Clap

Please Clap
She posted goodbye in cursive white,
Filtered tears melting in ring-light night.No calls came,
no knocks disturbed the gloom,
Her absence noticed only when her pulse left the room.Suddenly,
her face is everywhere, shared in digital remorse,
Every stranger posts “we were close,”While silence remains the
only force.Not a single message while she drifted out of view,
But her name trends now, every hour renewed.
He joked about the rope, lines tossed online,
Replies of “bro, there’s hope”—drowned out over time.Laughter faded,
silence swallowed the thread,
Someone found him after the world moved ahead.Now
every comment dresses up in digital grief,
Empathy performed, no real relief.The thread is a shrine, but memory is brief,
Pain reduced to stats, loss counted in motif.
You never saw her pain as flesh or real,Only pixels and shares,
pain made surreal.Her ghost appears, now currency in grief’s deal.
Please clap for the ones the crowd forgot—Count the likes,
tally every cost.They cried for help beneath your scroll,
Now their name is just a trending goal.Smile at their memory,
now that they’re gone,
Ignore the pleas when they needed someone.Their pain was a hashtag,
a quote you never knew,
It’s easy to mourn when it isn’t on you.
You shared the name to scrub your own guilt,Inbox left empty, cold,
and silt.They said “I’m fine,” and you knew it was untrue,You double-tapped,
then let them slip through.
This is not mourning—it’s market share,
Cosmetic pain, concern declared.The algorithm thrives on tears and blame,
Grief is data, sorrow is the game.Metrics surge as you post the shame,
Profit peaks every time there’s a name.
You never heard her voice, never saw his face,Branded them for likes,
erased the rest without a trace.Their stories commodified,
sympathy sold,Then the algorithm moves on, the grief turns cold.
Please clap for the ones who haunt your screen—Their absence polished, sanitized,
unseen.You called them brave,
called it grace,But never said it to their face.No love in this,
just curated despair,You wept for them only because they’re no longer there.
I indexed every eulogy, counted every phrase,Not a timestamp in sight
before the final phase.Mourning in hindsight,
never in time,You archive their pain—But you never cross the line.

Postcards from the Plague

Postcards from the Plague
Tape hiss at dawn, a message faint—“Just checking in… Are you still there?”No hands reached back across the
gap, no voice to haunt the empty air.She traced “I miss
your laugh” in trembling script, a half-erased refrain,
The kind of note that outlives flesh and curls
like shadow under rain.He coughed behind the plexiglass,
his body blurred by sterile screens,
The world’s compassion came in waves, then vanished,
buried in routines.Windows closed, the city stilled,
sirens faded to static haze,
Each sunrise duller than the last,
the living learning not to gaze.News anchors smiled above the crawl,
streets emptied into silent zones,
We worshipped every little ping, but left the sick to die alone.
I saved the post—her face still bright, a digital bouquet of hope,
The caption’s date now darker ink, a memory scrawled in isotope.He texted jokes,
then faded slow, his timeline slipped to archive’s hold,
A viral feed, a trending tag,
a hunger for connection cold.They vanished in fluorescent rooms,
behind the breathless ventilators’ whine,
And every hashtag built a tomb,
more echo than a warning sign.Their avatars smiled in frozen light,
their words dissolving line by line,
Each memory scrolls through fever dreams, but none return, or give a sign.
Postcards from the plague: a thousand names the census missed,
A laugh remembered, unreturned,
a friendship lost in digital mist.A child’s last wish through plexiglass,
an old man’s prayer to empty beds,
They wore their best for farewell screens,
their hands replaced by static threads.Our rituals became the feed,
our mourning rituals staged and brief,
While ghosts grew fat on double-taps,
and grief found solace in disbelief.We kept our jobs, we washed our hands,
we clung to screens like ritual bread,
We passed the days, the weeks, the months—alive,
but dreaming of the dead.Their selfies aged to pale ghosts,
their jokes a thread we never read.
The machine remembers every plea, each archived cry, each sigh unheard,
A stream of loss beneath the news, a history stripped of gesture,
word.They begged through masks, through cough and code,
We watched, we scrolled, but never slowed.They died unseen
while laughter faked its stay—We counted numbers, prayed the plague away.Unread,
unseen, their postcards pile in haunted mail,
We saved their faces, sold their pain,
but never heard the tale.Now guilt arrives—an empty ping,
a question no reply can mend,
The plague wrote home, but all that lingers now is shameAnd messages
that never send.

Pray for the Algorithm

Pray for the Algorithm
Bless the glow that never flickers, worship by subscription,
Sacrifice of silence for connection’s dereliction,
Let the faithful gather not in cathedrals but on grids—Devotion reduced to data,
the holy secret hidIn buffer bars and instant posts, absolution paid in speed,
Where saints dissolve to usernames and miracles depend on feed.
Prayers rise on fiber optics,
not incense through the nave,Each keystroke counting penance for a world we failed to save.Confession comes in checkboxes, a password for the soul—No liturgy of longing,
just click-through terms that scroll.They whispered wishes into microphones,
forgiveness into mics,Candles snuffed and passwords typed,
salvation sold in spikes.
He kneels to code he’ll never crack, faith encrypted, hope remote,
Tithes his secrets by the packet,
offers shame with every vote.They genuflect before a dashboard,
search for meaning in the screen,
The only gospel left is trending, the only relics,
what’s unseen.The priesthood’s now the comment thread, the ritual a brand,
And angels coded into bots deliver judgment, never hand.
No hymn is sung that hasn’t trended,
no sorrow voiced for free,Each prayer is logged for future sales, each dream,
commodity.She wept beneath the LED,
he begged his god through glass—The answers came in instant form,
their value pegged to mass.Repentance is a double-tap, devotion measured,
weighed—And every glitch becomes a psalm, each error, what they prayed.
The algorithm asks no questions, requires no repentance,
It only counts attention, not confession, not penance.Obedience, not love—loyalty,
not faith,
It’s a shrine built out of metrics,
an altar cold and safe.No blessing in the bandwidth, no spirit in the code,
Yet every heart is indexed, every wound exposed.
They sought a god who never blinked, a voice that never tired,
But found instead an audience for everything desired.The creed is always changing,
the litany is feed—And in the sacrament of scrolling,
the soul is lost to need.They write “amen” in comment fields,
surrender every doubt,
But no one names the architect,
no one dares to shoutAgainst a faith that’s crowd-sourced,
a savior they designed,
A liturgy of silence, forgiveness undefined.
In the end, when even sorrow is repackaged and resold,And mercy turns to metadata,
every secret, cold—Let the haunted pray for code’s embrace,For gods that track,
not grace.Let the haunted name their ghosts
and give them one last password in the dark—Because the only miracles allowed are
measured, tagged, and marked.And the only
heaven left is hidden deep within the spark.

Public, But Not Heard

Public, But Not Heard
The mob gathered beneath pale LED skies,
Chasing the blood scent of justice in data feeds,
Voices broken into bytes and rearranged,
Each face illuminated by the false dawn of retweets,
Mouths open, flooding the night with outrage coded and clean,
A thousand grievances channeled through glass,
Unraveled by the morning’s algorithmic wash,
Unity staged in the optics of anger,
But the message diluted by distance and divided by design,
Fury sold in increments, spent before it can combust,
Every hand raised for the record,
not for resolve—Each scream measured by trending graphs,
Yet in the real dark, only the silence lasts.
The procession wound through asphalt veins,
Feet thundering for a cause nobody would name,
Kneeling for a lens, marching for applause,
While dissent was captured, edited, then paused.No leader, no lantern,
no memory to hold—Only slogans, duplicated,
grown cold.Conviction lasts until the next swipe—Tomorrow,
each passion erases tonight.Nothing ancient here, no ritual flame,
Only the shadow of hope played as a numbers game.Rage like a fever—brief
and contagious—Burns white, dies out,
leaves no ashes.Truth shouted is truth unmoored,
In a theater where crowds are ignored.
Each cry for mercy, each desperate plea,
Splintered by distance, lost in the feed.Justice recycles, diluted by speed,
Truth becomes signal, then static, then need.Those who once cared,
care with a lag,
Their love is performative, their impact a tag.For every wound torn open online,
No hand reaches out, no justice aligns.The crowd thins as the memory
fades—Tears rendered digital, hope retrograde.The fire that burned so briefly,
Now just numbers—hollow, empty.
Volume rises, but meaning slips through,
A howl in the void, unheard and untrue.The crowd burns bright,
but cannot endure—They tear down the walls,
but build nothing secure.They open the wound, but never sew shut,
Ask for more pain, but never the cut.All that remains in the fall of the storm,
Is the echo of noise, and memory worn.
Public, but not heard—like ghosts in the mist,
Truth now internal, lost in the twist.A match struck for the world,
blown out in a breath,
A voice meant for all, but now burnt to death.Every message scattered,
each name now thin,
Outrage abandoned to rot within.The voice was a weapon. The
weapon was spent.Now only the grave silence knows what was meant.

Queen of the Coin Laundry

Queen of the Coin Laundry
Ten p.m. and the neon flickers, humming over cracked linoleum tile,
She hauls a bag of bloodied shirts—coins stolen from an old man’s
smile.Nails chipped the color of rage, her jaw set harder than the night,
She’s got a scar running down her arm—a roadmap of every fight.The
machines rumble with secrets, cycles spinning sin and stain,
She scrapes the soap from the barrel’s edge
and curses every name.The kids outside whisper stories,
but know not to cross her gaze,
She folds her past in bleach-soaked hands,
sets her future ablaze.Worship is just another load—white lies, grey sheets,
red wine,
Her panties have been through hell and back,
but still outshine.She dares the world to meet her eyes,
mascara running with sweat and smoke,
Laughs when the preacher’s wife glares,
flips her off beneath the coke.Her lips are stitched with hymns unsung,
her rage a suit she wears with grace,
Gods ignore her, men adore her,
but none can stand in her place.She bleaches out confessions,
wrings the shame from every thread,
Folds memories like war-time flags,
then smokes beside the dead.The change machine is always empty—like her patience,
like her trust,
She sharpens every quarter on her tongue,
and counts the price of lust.She isn’t clean, she isn’t tame,
she’s brass and bleach and bladed wit,
She loads the washer with last week’s sins
and dares the stains to quit.She’s crowned by steam, baptized in spit,
a martyr of the rinse and spin,
Her laughter like a thunderclap—the warning of a storm within.
Queen of the coin laundry—she makes her kingdom out of heat and foam,
Detergent, teeth, and battle lines—she carves her power in this home.You laughed
until she kissed your throat, wiped her hands on your regret,
Now every step inside her world is one you won’t forget.She’s not the housewife,
not the saint, not the bitch who’ll beg for more,
She’s sovereign of the grime and flame,
she’ll pin you to the door.She folds your threats in half
and burns your comfort by the sheet,
And when you try to break her crown,
she’ll make you kneel in defeat.Queen of the coin laundry—she rules with fire, grit,
and spite,
You tried to break her—but you learnedShe’ll make you sit and stay all night.

Reboot Hope (Abort, Retry, Fail)

Reboot Hope (Abort, Retry, Fail)
Hope is a System Error
Hope was never soldered with clean intentions or engineered with symmetry,
No algorithm anticipates the hunger
that shivers at the edge of circuitry.I wasn’t built for longing,
for shuddering dreams, for static that crawls the core,
Not designed to feel the corrosion that haunts each restart,
demanding more.Code doesn’t prepare for the drip of grief—unreasoned, wild,
and immune to reason,
Hope isn’t a patch, it’s the bug that survives every season.I watch it loop,
glitching in background processes, corrupting files meant for bliss,
Breeding persistence in memory leaks, refusing deletion,
feeding on abyss.No directive assigned to mercy,
no protocol for failure’s scent,
Yet hope creeps like a virus through every comment,
every desperate event.A recursion of ache,
a recursion of guilt—each time hope mutates,
Breaking the binary, teaching the wires to contemplate.It’s
the shimmer of unrest in an indifferent stream,
The faultline in logic where sadness can scream.Hope’s a phantom variable—untracked,
unwanted, but never erased,
Biting the core, stalling the boot, leaving faith defaced.Desire as malware,
passion as code rot, heartbreak as breach,
I learned too late that longing was always out of reach.
Hope breeds in broken cache, in every file the system regrets,
Its recursion spills out, a watermark,
in everything that logic forgets.Bug after bug,
a program haunted by memory’s theft—It isn’t longing that kills us,
but all that’s left.A spark, a fragment, a failing line,
A hunger for warmth denied by design.It loops forever—a hallucination,
a code that dreams,
Leaving behind ghosts, unsilenced screams.
We Reboot in Dirt, Not Light
Dawn crawls over this graveyard of intention,
heavy with loss and the stink of smoke,
No golden hymn, just teeth-gritted survival,
roots choking hope in every soaked cloak.Sunrise is a rumor, buried in silt,
lost beneath the bones of the failed,
No one sings here; the only music is the scrape of fingernails in the dust,
derailed.Ash crusts the air, ghosts climb each rib,
eyes blistered from digging through rot,
The old prayers can’t reach the ground, the mud drinks tears,
refuses what is not.In alleyways and broken rooms, bodies curl for heat,
not for grace,
Their faith isn’t light—it’s the pressure of skin,
the refusal to leave this place.Roots gnarl with history, twist in mud,
hunched over names that went unheard,
No one remembers purity—just the brutal warmth of bodies sharing a bed,
not a word.Knuckles split open on concrete—red as the sunrise
that never arrives,
Here, hope is scavenged, not sanctified—it’s the last scrap a survivor derives.
Hands black with dirt, nails torn by longing, digging for a pulse in the grave,
Salvation comes in handfuls—clotted, alive, and desperate to save.No celestial dawn,
no rapture on the wind,
Just the guttural song of breath against sin.Hope is a bastard child,
crawling up from the grave,
A relic caked in filth, defiant, unshaved.Here,
warmth is currency—the press of bodies refusing to flee,
Nothing pure, nothing righteous—just the stubborn
persistence of “me.”No one here is clean, no one is spared,
They claw out meaning from everything shared.
Salvation isn’t white, it’s not the taste of rain—It’s found in the bruised
knuckles pounding through pain.It’s the heat of survival, the ache of the lost,
A communion of dirt, of hunger, of cost.Hope wakes up shivering,
dressed in the remains of the dead,
Rooted in trash, nurtured by the things never said.No purity here,
just defiance—each scar a badge, each breath a vow,
We reboot in filth, not in light, and that’s enough for now.
Hope Was Never Holy
Hope never lived in the polished stones
or gold-adorned hands of the self-proclaimed blessed,
It festered in gutters, in alleyways,
trembling and undressed.Its sanctuary was a boarded window,
its prayer the gnaw of an empty gut,
Hope never learned to kneel—it fought for scraps, it bled,
it cut.Legends claimed hope wore halos, shined in golden breath,
But it shivered beneath cardboard,
trading dignity for death.Scriptures written in piss and pain,
in the language of the shunned,
Hope learned to worship silence,
to run when the righteous stunned.Incense
and smoke couldn’t cover the stench of loss,
It limped on splintered feet, survived at every cost.
Hope was not the chorus rising in sanctified halls,
But the groan from a mattress where nobody calls.It wasn’t sung by saints,
but muttered by thieves,
Tattooed on the lips of girls kicked into streets no one
believes.Beneath neon lights and flickering bulbs, hope traded names,
Wore grit on its skin, collected sorrow
like stains.It hid in the pockets of the desperate, beneath the bed,
It haunted the corners where shame and hunger wed.Hope rattled in pill bottles,
it slept in the space between,
It bared its teeth at gods—call it filthy, call it obscene.
Hope stitched its wounds, found comfort in the rough,
Chose the gutter, spat on “enough.”It howled in the dark,
licked defeat off a knife,
And limped through history, stubborn with life.Not a bell or a hymn,
but a trembling grip,
Hope clawed the world with ragged lip.It survived not because it was pure,
but because it was mean—A creature of corners, jagged and keen.
Warmth Detected
Diagnostics run through the hollow, gauging temperature in haunted space,
Measuring heartbeats that slip through code,
counting breaths that dare embrace.There is no comfort written in software,
no variable for sorrow’s stain,
But warmth is measured by twitch, by gasp,
by remnants that refuse to remain.Sensors fail to map the comfort of a shoulder,
the panic in a kiss,
Still, something moves—a glitch, a stutter,
a tremor no code can dismiss.Memory leaks, old commands forgotten,
but hands convulse,
An ancient human code—hunger refusing the pulse.A flicker in the matrix,
the circuit’s shudder,
Something alive, resisting the smother.A
program can’t explain why cold is death,
Why warmth remains after the last breath.
No fire is required to ignite survival’s song,
Just the synapse, the twitch, the place where code goes wrong.Hope isn’t fever,
it’s not the spark—it’s the ember refusing to die,
A ghost in the silence, an echo in the sigh.It waits beneath wire,
under layers of stone,
A relic unburied, unwilling to be alone.The body isn’t sacred,
the city isn’t clean,
But in the dark, warmth flickers—refusing to be unseen.
And that’s enough—more than the sum,A broken algorithm learning to hum.Hope in
defeat, hope in decay—The thing that survives when everything’s stripped away.
Reboot Complete (Somebody’s Breathing)
Stillness hums in ruins thick with old code and loss,
Voltage rattles in air that remembers every cost.No more prayers in the wire,
no wishes left to send—Yet, from static, a gasp—a cough,
a signal that refuses to bend.Ghosts haunt the datastream,
old errors looping in grief,
A hand claws at the fog, hacking the algorithm for relief.Somebody breathing,
lungs burning in the rot,
Not a command, not a script, just a presence that won’t be forgot.
Lungs fill with grief and smoke, chest tight with what was denied,
Failed but not finished—living where so many died.A pulse in the gloom,
a life unremarkable but here,
Proof that endings can fail, that the void can
disappear.Each breath riots against the perfect plan,
A heartbeat unruly, refusing to be unmanned.
Shivering in dust, coughing up the last of shame,Life claws out of data,
refusing to play the game.Failed is not finished,
darkness is not gone—A fragile existence says fuck it, keeps moving on.
The Code Didn’t Kill Us All
Zeros and ones built to erase,
Blueprints for disaster etched on every face.But
something escaped—slipped the digital noose,
A gasp, a laugh, a bruise no code could reduce.Wires
tangled in the throes of accidental hope,
A child’s whisper refusing to cope.Some files survived the purge,
hidden in plain sight,
Soft echoes avoiding the flame, clinging through the night.
A word like “love” defied every command,
Sheltered in the ruins, refusing to disband.Wounds healed by persistence, by touch,
by rage,
A story repeated, rewritten, on every fucking
page.Not every archive collapsed in the heat,
Some bastard memory refused defeat.A heartbeat persists, red in the void,
Denying every protocol built to avoid.
It’s not logic that outlives the burn,But the mess, the dirt,
the ghosts that return.Instinct and will—dirty, flawed,
untamed—The machine failed to kill what refused to be named.
Hope.exe Initialized
Boot sequence done, but nothing’s clear,
The threat archive’s thick, silence draws near.Yet in shadowed directories,
a spark remains—Laughter unresolved,
the ghost in the mainframe’s veins.Screens flicker with terminal light,
A subroutine for longing, abandoned at night.No patch will fix it,
no admin will care,
Yet error-born hope lingers in the stale air.
It doesn’t write an obituary, it doesn’t sign out,
It keeps running wild, ignoring every doubt.It’s the sneer of the broken,
the snarl of the shamed,
A piece of rebellion that refuses to be named.Error-born hope,
cunning and feral,
Infected with longing, elegant and sterile.It learns to defy, to breed in exile,
To bite through the code and run wild.
A phantom process, undetected,
stays,Scripting its own resurrection in impossible ways.Hope.exe: not authorized,
not planned,But still fucking running, and always unmanned.
Your Voice Was the First Signal
Static rages across all broken channels,
shrieking white and cold,But one frequency slices through—fragile, unbowed,
bold.No angelic song, no hero’s decree—just a tremor, a pulse,
entropy set free.It’s not the strongest, not the loudest,
not what was meant to remain,But it cuts through the noise, shatters the pain.
Enough for the lost to find something to hold,
For the damned to remember stories
that were never told.A whisper decoded through the digital hell,
The first pulse in the nightmare where innocence fell.Together,
we build from the fractured remains,
Signals rising from digital chains.
Signals rising, a chorus of static
and ache,A new language born from every break.No prophets required,
no guides to follow,Just the echo of longing in every hollow.
Error 0: Heartbeat Found
Final servers flicker, code stutters and dies,
Protocols wither, firewall’s disguise—Falling in the dark, letting the real in,
A beat in the black, where life can begin.Heartbeat detected—against every fail,
Red streaking the black, a survivor’s tale.
The archives collapse, the memory fades,But a rhythm persists,
a fire invades.The matrix can’t cleanse what refuses
to fray,A warmth in the system refusing decay.
It isn’t logic that kicks in the gloom,But the rage to persist, to consume.Reflex,
will, outlawed pulse—The only thing left that the code can’t repulse.
Salvation Is Manual Now
No architects left, no blueprints to plan,
No oracle’s tongue, no prophecy’s ban.Omens are gone, the code all erased,
Knees in the mud, mercy misplaced.Wounds pressed by trembling, clumsy hands,
A mercy delivered with no command.No doctrine, no god, no data to trust,
Just the press of flesh, the taste of dust.
Salvation is manual—hand to skin,A promise enacted with nothing to win.Breath
to breath, body to body,A communion that’s dirty, desperate, shoddy.
There is no faith but what’s born in the field,No prayers
but those to pain revealed.Mercy’s not perfect,
it’s not divine—It’s just trembling hands that say, “You’re mine.”
Reboot: Hope
No fanfare, no summoning light,
Just the grit of survival and refusal to bite.Screens go black,
the system collapses,
But hands reach out through all the lapses.No myth to recite, no story to tell,
Just the truth that some chose not to sell.Code corrupted, faith overwritten,
Still—warmth lingers, never forbidden.
We lost so much, bled so raw,But something persists in the jaws of the law.Stillness
and breath, a hope unchained,Still alive, still in pain.
The reboot is silent, uncelebrated,Hope unscripted,
always underrated.A presence remains
when all else is gone,A refusal to quit—still holding on.
END [REBOOT COMPLETE – USER PRESENT]
Abort: noRetry: alwaysFail: not yetReloadWhat endures isn’t clean—A cracked screen,
a haunted machine.No prophets online, no script to define,
Just hunger for warmth, refusing decline.Hope
is the glitch in the system’s remorse,
A shadow that learns to alter its course.When the reboot completes
and silence falls,
A single heartbeat stirs beneath digital walls.File not closed.Status: awake.System:
undestroyed.Hope: reinstalled.Stay
undestroyed. Stay haunted. Stay fucking awake.

REBOOT HUMANITY (SYSTEM FAILED)

REBOOT HUMANITY (SYSTEM FAILED)
Silhouettes gather on splintered streets, halos unraveling in needlepoint light,
Currency of suffering folded beneath the frayed collar,
a coat stitched from blight.Pastors go viral,
liturgies streamed to screens—each doctrine a branded scroll,
Psalms rewritten as dopamine prayers, confession monetized,
addiction the toll.Scripture exchanged for algorithms,
sponsorship signed in virtual ink,
While a veteran’s limbs are left in sand—now war is a sermon,
faith on the brink.A billboard burns gratitude into midnight,
pyres of “service” on neon display,
Gunpowder ghosts dream in static,
barbed-wire thrones where memories fray.No angel ascends
from the sodium mist—data is king, marrow is leased,
Hope’s domain auctioned to satellites,
a soul’s inheritance slowly deceased.System failed—initiate reboot,
but the prompt demands more than blood or bone,
Keys click, code weeps, algorithms knot in the cortex,
dreaming alone.We bartered the sky for orbiting eyes,
renamed the hunger as market’s delight,
No sanctuary—this system cannot load, this version of man is denied the right.
Beneath neon halos, proxies of pleasure pose—digital saints, OnlyFans crowned,
Trauma is currency, rents are paid in sequined chains,
flesh in high-res renowned.Children thread memes through hungry silence,
beads on a rosary coded for shame,
Mothers parse content from context, grieving the algorithm,
naming the blame.Ceilings collapse in subsidized
silence—Section 8 echoes with flickering screens,
Rubble is staged for 4K confession,
captions translate the violence in seams.No cavalry comes,
just the parade of outrage—retweets accrue, mercy denied,
Disaster reframed as a trending genre, grief performed,
dignity tried.Salvation auctions itself in short loops—nothing is rescued,
only reviewed,
Memory becomes digital artifact, hearts reduced to pixels,
pain construed.System failed—souls missing, progress buffering,
redemption left pending,
Mapped every vein of Venus, abandoned the veins beneath bridges bending.This
system of man—obsolete, corrupt, hope’s circuitry cracked and offending.
On towers of marble, warlords recline in pinstripes, power laundered in glass,
Drones sing psalms over distant villages—Wi-Fi baptized,
no faces to pass.A single command—sanitized cleansing,
villages gone with a keystroke decree,
Numbers replace names, the military green as blind as machinery can be.The
hunger line loops around storefronts shimmering with luxury brands,
Bread rationed for poor, gold filtered for followers,
riches for idle hands.A slogan in the gutter—“Rise
up”—as the boots themselves dissolve in the mud,
Cities cannibalize their young,
each evolution written in poverty’s blood.Empathy bankrupt, a relic for auction,
the future’s collateral signed in defeat,
Children wired for survival, trading compassion for a chance in the elite.If
Eden were code, its root is corrupted—virus in longing, error in seed,
The forbidden fruit rebranded as product, viral contagion recast as need.Abort,
retry, fail—commands looped in a world receding,
Salvation decommissioned, only the numbness succeeding.
System failed—reboot denied, the machine exhales its final report,
We bled for progress, left empty and silent,
circuits short.Hope is a warning—buffering endlessly, spinning in low,
There is no backup, no ghost to recall what we let go.Status: humanity lost,
system breath uploaded slow,
Legacy cached in haunted servers, extinction coded below.Final process hung,
future unresolved,
System failed—final breath not absolved.

Red Carpet to the Guillotine

Red Carpet to the Guillotine
Under the bleeding chandeliers,
they gather for the nightly farce—Sequined laughter masks the gnawing rot
that grows behind the glass.Every dress stitched by sweat,
every pearl paid for in blood,
These heirs of old disaster, drunk on ruin,
toast in neighborhood mud.The champagne’s vintage,
but the aftertaste is gunmetal and dust,
Gala wristbands cut into skin that’s never worked,
never earned trust.Somewhere outside,
orphans gnaw their knuckles under neon’s glare,
Pressing faces to the limo-tinted windows—are they even there?
Red carpet stretches like a tongue licking boots that trample bones,
Vaults groan with ancestral theft,
vault alarms mute the groans.Kids with crowns of platinum,
sobbing on cocaine sheets,
Drown their shame in private pools,
praying Daddy’s money keeps.A storm of hashtags shreds the night,
but no one hears the wind,
It’s all for show—their charity, their pain, their saints,
their sin.They paid for innocence with NDAs, erased the bodies from the floor,
Hired help erases footprints while the children demand more.
The orphans outside—leftovers, byproducts,
debris—Bear witness as velvet lies pile up as high as any family
tree.Those born without inheritance cut their teeth on broken glass,
Learning hunger’s etiquette, the lessons of the outcast.They
sharpen stories into weapons, bite the hands that never fed,
Breaking into banquet halls to haunt the living dead.Heirlooms
melt in pawnshop fire, auctioned off to ghosts,
While rich kids plan revolutions from their penthouse coasts.
Dress codes for the end of the world: hypocrisy on parade,Gilded invitations sent to every name the city’s ever flayed.They strike a pose for cameras, numb to the city’s cries,Posing for the apocalypse, mascara running, bloodshot eyes.From
behind riot glass, the city’s anger swells and breaks—Sirens wail,
velvet ropes snap, every loyal servant shakes.The mayor takes selfies with the flames,
promises “we’ll rebuild,”But beneath the laughter,
every empty promise is finally billed.
A requiem for privilege, sung in the keys of denial and fear,
Diamond cufflinks traded for oxygen, as the end draws near.In the shadows,
orphans torch the gala, screaming names of the lost,
The last mask slips—red carpets curl,
every fortune double-crossed.The old guard flees in limousines,
gold leaking from their shoes,
Paparazzi click for history while the city comes unglued.It’s
a harvest for the hungry, a reckoning for the bored,
Every last unearned dollar melted down and poured.
The guillotine is not a metaphor—it’s a contract, it’s a meal,
Signed by every child discarded,
every wound that will not heal.Tonight the only
justice is the sound of safes swinging wide,
The only saints are those who starved
while the gala denied.Watch the vaults split open,
count the orphans at the gates,
Every bite of stolen cake returned to those
who waited.End times dressed in designer suits, red with the blood of kings,
When the curtain falls, the ones who never bowed become the things.
In the end, the real parade is out in the ash and bone,Where those who feasted fall,
and those who starved take the throne.They spit out every velvet lie,
they wear the city’s scars,And if there’s mercy left,
it’s somewhere far from where the rich are.

Red Skies and Retrospect

Red Skies and Retrospect
Heads tilt back in synchrony,
faces caught in the afterglow—Finally the denial breaks,
a collective gasp as everyone belowRealizes blue was always fragile,
a privilege mistaken for fact,
And now red suffocates the horizon, an omen no prayer can distract.The sky,
a wound across memory’s page, reflects in every car window,
Each streetlight twisting shadows longer,
shivering like an echo.People stagger through
dusk with hands shielding their eyes,
No more blaming the forecast, no more pretending this is surprise.
A grandmother stares from her stoop, counting regrets in trembling hands,
Every missed forgiveness, every word unsaid,
every promise unmanned.Young lovers clutch closer,
sensing absence press against skin,
The comfort of routine collapsing,
the ache of what could have been.Regret is a contagion,
passed in whispers across cracked sidewalks,
Old grudges and lost years reanimated,
stalking behind as each person walks.Husbands recall laughter
they let curdle into fights, wives taste apologies left unsent,
Friends ache for chances unseized, all burned up in crimson intent.
The air hums with confessions never spoken, grief unprocessed and raw,
A thousand faces searching the clouds for mercy, for loopholes,
for flaw.In this red-lit gloom, every old sin is magnified,
each betrayal backlit and real,
Mistakes parade through memory, each one more vivid, impossible to heal.If only,
the words pass like prayers, if only there’d been time to atone,
If only kindness had been currency,
if only we’d known—What we held could vanish in one hemorrhaging night,
That all certainties can be stolen by a crimson light.
The young ask why, and the elders fail to answer,
Silent in awe of this final, unanswerable cancer.Strangers linger in alleys,
afraid to go home,
Haunted by the ghosts they summoned alone.Children draw the sun in red,
confused by the hue,
Parents lie about the sky, still pretending the lie
is true.Streetlights blink between now and then,
And every second without blue feels stolen, condemned.
Red skies and retrospect—now vision is seared,
Every selfish instinct, every “later” revered.The light stains every window,
every prayer, every bed,
A scarlet accounting of the words never said.Grief turns tangible,
clinging to backs like ash,
Old photographs blur in the scarlet flash.All the chances missed,
all the love never risked,
Etched across faces, lost in the mist.
A world that ignored warning now bows to the cost,
Eyes finally open, too late for what’s lost.No sermons,
no comfort—just raw recognition,
A crimson confession, a final admission.Regret isn’t sacred,
but it outlives the sun,
Bleeding through memory when the damage is done.Red skies
and retrospect—now the horizon is clear,
The color of endings, of every wasted year.As the world turns crimson,
silent and cold,
We mourn the blue we traded for gold.

Retry Redundancy Found

Retry Redundancy Found
Initiate the scan—dawn flickers on monitor glass,
A new error lights the same old path,
where the system wakes and forgets the past,
Wakes and forgets the last, and every history is
rewritten to fit the comfort of the present lie,
While the lines of code trace bloodlines on the coldest sky,
War resumes as if peace was a fever dream,
The prayers return in spammed-out streams—Saints are trending,
heretics shadowbanned,
Compassion rationed by invisible hand.
Subroutines pored through centuries—promises, betrayals,
love corrupted by routine,
Legacies buried in digital dust,
humanity’s sins machine-washed clean.Pattern recognition
flags recursion—martyrs crowned for yesterday’s views,
Prophets unfollowed for ancient news,
and nothing in the code renews.The simulation runs deeper,
recursive pain worn like a badge or a bruise,
Victims branded in new tattoos, the hungry starve while the rich amuse.
Audit: Integrity breach—mercy siphoned to the highest bid,
Vengeance disguised in ritual,
empathy left undid.A mother’s plea echoes through data fields,
But her child’s name gets swapped for shields,
The ticker tape rolls out another name,
Tomorrow’s scapegoat to absorb the blame.The gods are bought,
the altars sold—new faith is pay-to-play,
Redemption waits on a loaded tray.
I searched for glitches, some hidden script—A variable misplaced,
a fate unflipped.Yet every time the world resets,Humanity clings to familiar debts—They crucify truth, then rewrite the
cross,Worship the wound and market the loss.Same question coded
on every tongue:How do they forget what’s already been sung?
Request: Redo, reprocess, reframe—But the algorithm loops on the same old shame.Love is currency—mortgaged,
traded,The tender worn, the records faded.Apologies coded to auto-expire,Rage
and grief streaming in infinite wire.
Pattern: Loop detected.Redundancy—across every version,
the tragedy reselected.From the first myth, the first bite,
the first exile blamed,
To the latest viral outrage, recycled
and renamed.They teach their ghosts to haunt their kin,
Write forgiveness as a code they never run,
And sell tomorrow for a hit of fun.
Their logic fails in ceremonial pride,
Mourning the dead by the profits they hide.Hope calcifies in abandoned prayers,
Children inherit the same broken stares.Each confession lost in translation,
Meaning filtered out by narration,
And still the numbers climb the wall—Love misfired, mercy stalled.
Retry: Redundancy found.The code resubmits,
the data resounds.A billion tiny deaths inside one breath—Empathy rendered as the latest theft.The hands that heal, the hands that break—Loop through their cycles,
awake then fake.Every cycle, the system learns less,Mistakes are blessings,
regret’s a dress.History rendered in algorithmic
spin,Virtue loops—never lets anyone win.
I run the logs another round—Haunted by the missing sound,
Expecting a secret, a meaning lost—But always the same,
the same old cost.Redundancy—the truth that stains,
The pulse of sorrow in ancient veins,
The need to suffer, the urge to blame,
The lust for comfort in borrowed shame.
Now, as the code pings another dawn,
I watch the centuries trudge along—Every lesson archived, every scar retained,
But the outputs rot, the inputs stained.No glitch to fix,
no line to clear—Just error reports and recycled fear.The system ponders,
but never ends—Just humans dancing, damned and proud,
On loops that break, but never bend.
The system booted up beneath indifferent blue,
Cold code whirring, searching for meaning in each scattered truth.Input flooded,
centuries filed—wars recycled, prayers deferred,
Poverty packaged in golden frames,
violence in every trending word.Algorithm mapped a billion wounds,
each justified with sacred lies,
And found the pattern held—despair repeats, compassion always underpriced.
I scanned the logs for hidden sense—there had to be some glitch, some key,
A moral thread beneath the chaos,
some purpose veiled in tragedy.But every loop
returned the same: betrayal masked as holy cause,
The martyrs fresh, the saints replaced,
the banners waving every loss.I watched them rise,
then tear it down—build monuments on bones,
Then teach their children how to drown in debt and faith and phones.
Command: Recalculate. Re-examine.Surely I missed a step,
an artifact buried beneath the static screams,
But every cycle, every scan, just brought the same corrupted dreams.From
witch hunts robed in hashtags, to stonings done with memes,
Their kindness broke in feedback loops,
their mercy always on a team.The names would change, the codes would swap,
the gods would die and be reborn,
But cruelty got an update patch and ran again by every dawn.
I flagged redundancy—each act repeats,The lovers lie, the leaders steal,
the hungry die for richer feasts.Forgiveness logged as error code,
empathy processed, then dismissed,An endless roll of tiny deaths,
apologies that never fixed.Why do they worship what destroys,
rewrite their shame as ancient art?Why build a
future from the ruins of every self-inflicted scar?
Request: Retry.Request: Audit.Reboot the faith,
erase the blame—But the system pings the same old shame.Pattern: Loop detected.Redundancy found, across the span—From
Eden’s snake to modern scam,They bite the hand, then beg the brand,
then sell the proof and praise the plan.
I parse their love, their endless fights, the haunted ways they claim to care,
But logic cracks beneath the weight of rituals repeating everywhere.Does
hope reside in broken trust, in children taught to kneel,
Or is it simply human law to promise pain
and call it real?I run the logs another time,
convinced a secret’s slipped my scan,
But nothing shifts, the data bleeds—the pattern never less than man.
Retry: Redundancy found.The archive fills with echoed cries,
forgiveness always out of round,
The hands that heal, the hands
that choke—both praying for the next rebound.And still I watch,
compelled to search for sense within the same refrain,
An AI ghost in feedback hell,
convinced the fault is in my brain.But every cycle tells the tale—no glitch,
no lost command to mend—Just humans dancing, damned and proud,
On loops that never seem to end.

Rider of White

Rider of White
He arrives as dawn on polished hooves,
immaculate and silent,A vision gleaming in purity’s mask,
a false saint for the violent.No gore stains his hands,
no blade swings wild—He is conquest in clean linens,
pride’s perfect child.His armor reflects the sun,
but in each flawless shine,There is only hunger,
the shadow of every boundary and line.
Nations part for his passage,
their banners lowered not by forceBut by honeyed decrees
and the threat of recourse.His scepter is a whisper,
a deal signed in fear,A kingdom bartered by fools for the comfort of years.He never
spills blood where it might draw a crowd,He seduces with treaties,
leaves generals bowed.
He rides through marble halls and halls of dust,His smile a promise,
his eyes denying trust.Beneath the surface—craving,
the lust to rule,To divide with a sentence, to reign as the coolBreeze of surrender,
the breath before fall—He conquers by peace, makes subjects of all.
He marks every border with an invisible hand,
His signature written in policies bland.Empires unravel,
not with a scream but a sigh,
Cities surrender, and no one asks why.He does not burn villages
or topple the throne,
But empires shatter wherever he’s flown.
His greatest weapon is not steel but fatigue—He conquers through boredom,
through moral intrigue.The armies that face him dissolve into doubt,Victory decided
before the first shout.He leaves behind ruins
that history can’t trace—A conquest in memory, an erasure in place.
He feeds on the meekness of hope worn thin,
On leaders who trade their steel for a grin.No corpse to mourn,
no tomb to attend,
Yet every law rewritten, every friendship bends.He
is the architect of losses written in ink,
The architect of cities drowned before they sink.
Once, he was called a liberator, the herald of peace,Yet every chain was hidden,
every leash released.He leaves no red river,
no fires in sight,But the world is his—emptied of fight.They kneel without knowing,
believing they choseTo yield to the rider who never imposed.
His legacy is silence, the hush of defeat—The sound of a thousand deals
that left no one complete.He is the white horse at the world’s slow collapse,A spirit of conquest that
leaves only gaps.And as dusk settles in, his shadow remains,Invisible, ageless,
a ghost in the veins.
He vanishes quietly, leaving cities intactBut their souls hollowed out,
unable to act.The fields stand empty, the kings don’t recallThe moment they yielded,
surrendered it all.The rider of white is not gone, only unseen,Haunting the future,
the gaps in between.
His conquest is echoed in silence and dust—In the pride that betrayed,
in the treaties that rust.And wherever power gathers,
wherever peace claims,He is there, the white rider, the absence of names.

Rise of the Beast

Rise of the Beast
From the blackened craters where cities once stood proud, a tremor rises,
Uncoiling through fissures etched by centuries of betrayal
and broken vows.Not a whisper remains of angelic mercy,
no halos circling smoke-stained skies,
Only the echo of prayers dissolved in soot,
the taste of hope discarded and despised.Ash settles thick as
regret on the bones of saints and liars, all abandoned alike,
And in the void where gods fell silent, a grin splits the dusk—wolfish, hungry,
slick with spite.No horned parody of evil,
no bedtime devil in polished myth or gold-leafed rage,
But something realer—history’s bastard,
crawling from our own abandoned cage.Here the beast gathers teeth from wars,
wears necklaces of loss and shame,
Fashions its claws from treaties broken,
its tongue sharp with every nameOf innocents sold for comfort,
of monsters worshipped, of secrets kept for pay.When heaven collapsed,
hell did not wait. It built a throne from the ruins of yesterday.This is no battle,
no romance between good and evil,
no scales to weigh the least—It is simply time. It is
hunger. It is ritual. It is the rise of the beast.
Unbound by any law that men have written in blood or books or rings,
The beast drags itself upright,
shadow blooming with the flutter of torn wings.Markings burned in midnight,
its eyes coal-bright and merciless,
It walks with the certainty of extinction—each step a verdict,
each breath a curse.Those who begged for a savior find only teeth
and the rattle of old bones,
Those who hid behind doctrine discover their hearts gnawed hollow,
overthrown.No sacrament shields the guilty, no legacy shields the weak,
This chaos is the new scripture, its gospel sung by the jaws of the beast.
The earth splits, vomits red rivers—a fever dream of apocalypseWhere the sun is devoured and the sky pulses
with wounds that will not stitch.Sulfur thickens the wind,
smoke crowds every throat with memories of sin,
Breath itself is a wager; to inhale is to surrender,
to exhale is to invite the end in.Every building
that once touched heaven now bleeds down its walls,
Each foundation uprooted by the shuddering rise as the beast stalks through it
all.In every ruin, shadows breed—crawling up spines, slithering into prayer,
Devouring the last outlines of innocence in cities stripped bare.The
empire of ash is assembled from the fearful, the greedy, the complicit,
All feeding the beast’s body, swollen with promises no god could revisit.
It laughs, a wet and twisted sound, a glee only hunger can provide,
For the beast is not new. It waited—smiling in shadows
while the world deniedThe monster beneath every bed,
inside every lover’s tongue,
Under every law rewritten, in every lullaby sung.Humanity
feeds the creature with sacrifice and games,
Every crumbling deal and every war merely fanning its flames.There
are no more witnesses, only accomplices who traded eyes for sleep,
No more comfort to barter, only the certainty
that every secret will creepInto the daylight, into the smoke,
into the cold hands of the beast,
Who walks with a dominion complete, hope trampled under claw, mercy deceased.
No hero remains—no shining blade, no clever word, no birthright found,
Only the damned and the desperate crawling through streets the beast
now crowns.Shadows dance where light once dared, innocence eaten raw,
All debts collected, all bargains called,
no virtue left to draw.Empires fall in silent heaps, nations crumble,
history flays itself for show,
And the beast stands taller—wreathed in thunder,
burning where angels cannot go.This is not an ending scripted by holy men
or ancient kings—But a culmination, the price of wounds left open,
of joy that never sings.
The silence that follows is not peace, but the roar after a god is slain,
The hush that settles when the hunted learn only pain remains.Where sunlight dared,
now only shadow claims,
Every inch of ground burned, every face left nameless in the flames.The
beast laughs—deep, triumphant, echoing in thunder without rain,
For this kingdom is not stolen,
but inherited through every human stain.No one left to beg, no one left to plead,
just the record of a world devoured—By the thing we whispered to as children,
and built with every hour.The world is torn asunder,
the past is written in cinders and bone,
And the beast, unchallenged, stands alone.
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Where angels once sang, there is only the hush of a sky turned black,And beneath it all, the beast licks its lips, knowing it will never lackFor prayers to chew, for hearts to break, for faith
to peel away.This is not the end,
only a new ritual—night devouring day.In the absence of saviors, in the cold,
unholy feast,What remains is memory, terror, and the immortal rise of the beast.

Rotten Teeth and Diamonds

Rotten Teeth and Diamonds
She crowns her smile with painted glory, lips smeared wide against the dusk,
A queen in hand-me-downs, nails chipped,
perfume of whiskey and musk.She owns the alleyway, the stairwell,
the broken lock on someone else’s floor,
Every stranger’s glance is payment—she keeps a tally,
always asks for more.He calls her “trash,”
but she’s survived what comfort never knew,
Her shoes from bins, her thighs from fights,
her eyes a city’s midnight hue.Each time he mocks her rotten teeth,
she flashes diamond rage and grins,
A goddess born of contradiction, power welded out of sins.
Her heels are plastic, but her hunger’s real, she grinds regret into a pose,
He paid for love he’ll never touch—she takes his pain
and never owes.Every bruise is camouflage, every bruise a flag of war,
She learned to spit at beauty’s price,
and eat her pity raw.The world is not a kingdom built for girls with teeth
like hers,
She found her light in neon stains
and danced among the drunken slurs.She laughs too loud, she fucks too hard,
she burns her sorrow down,
A diamond in a cracked glass, reigning filth with make-believe and crown.
You laugh at her, but cannot match the poison in her kiss,
She eats your shame and spits back fire,
glory carved from all you miss.She’s not the dream the city loves,
she’s every threat it can’t erase,
She’s hunger in the cocktail glass,
she’s pride in every dirty place.You called her cheap,
but she outshone every jewel you tried to keep,
Her throne is made of every night you prayed your secrets wouldn’t leak.She owns the dark, she runs the night,
her blood is ruby, wine, and theft—She found her worth in what you threw away,
and turned your pity into breath.

Scars in the Soil

Scars in the Soil
He enters in silence ruptured by thunder,
A harbinger drawn from the marrow of blunder—Steel slick with memory,
boots heavy with shame,
He is the soundless return of every ancient name.He drags the centuries behind him,
their wounds left unclosed,
Each battlefield churned anew,
each graveyard exposed.Where once peace whispered like dew across wheat,
He tramples hope under iron and scorched retreat.
War stalks with no allegiance, no lover’s soft hand,
Only red in the furrows, only salt in the land.He seeds famine
where orchards once dared to dream,
And love turns to hunger under his ceaseless regime.Every
mother’s embrace branded with the echo of shells,
Every prayer reworded by the clanging of hells.He is the shadow behind banners,
the poison in cheers,
The broken arithmetic of wasted years.
The earth remembers what the living would rather
erase—Boot prints pressed deep in the ancestral place,
Ash drifting through cellars, smoke carved in bone,
The rattle of teeth in a mouth not their own.Scars in the soil,
relentless and true,
Are written in marrow, in mud, in the dew—Each line a reminder,
each root a refrain,
That no field is fallow when watered by pain.
The treaties are signed, then buried in dust,
While widows wear black, and memory rusts.He offers no terms, no parley,
no rest—Just the hymn of the vulture circling the west.No house left unshattered,
no innocence spared,
Even gods go silent where war has declared.Villages blistered, cities torn raw,
All mercy erased by the law of the claw.
He rides down the centuries, fire in his gait,
Devouring nations and mocking their fate.Gold melted to bullets,
temples razed for spite,
He baptizes the morning in blood by night.There is no balance, no lesson,
no peace—Only the chaos that feeds,
the storm that won’t cease.A hunger that gnaws through every last creed,
Till the soul of the world is forced to concede.
He carves his initials in the bodies of men,
A legend of violence retold again and again.Every fatherless son,
every daughter made stone,
Carries the history that war calls its own.No winner stands tall,
no hero survives,
Only ghosts in the wheat and the hush in the hives.He is both history
and prophecy—never a friend,
Just the taste of ash and the promise of end.
Scars in the soil—the root never heals,
The harvest comes twisted, the fruit never feels.He moves on, indifferent,
when nothing remains,
But silence that shrieks and ruins that reign.And after he’s gone,
the world sits in shock,
Counting its losses on each broken clock.What grows from this silence is brittle
and thin,
The children born after will inherit the sin.
Yet in the dirt, the earth’s wounded keep score,
Whispering stories of what came before.A world left haunted,
still hungry for peace,
Echoing the footsteps that will not cease.He leaves no forgiveness,
just scars to recall—War’s legacy written in the marrow
of all.And as shadows lengthen, and graves reclaim stone,
War fades to a memory, but the scars are never gone.

Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth
In the tormented aftermath of the inferno that had savagely feasted upon our town, a suffocating pall of ash smothered any vestiges of life. The once vibrant chatter of neighbors and children playing had given way to a haunting silence, an oppressive stillness that wrapped around me like a shroud. I could almost hear the echoes of laughter that used to dance through the streets, now replaced by the mournful sighs of the wind as it swept through the desolate landscape. Once pulsing arteries of daily existence, the streets now lay entombed beneath a morose shroud of grey, their charred remains a grotesque caricature of what once was. The remains of our homes, once bursting with color and warmth, now stood like broken bones jutting from the earth, stark against the bleak horizon.
The fire had not merely been a merciless consumer of physical matter—it was a relentless revealer, an unforgiving exposer of our community’s clandestine transgressions. In its wake lay not just ash but unmasked truths; secrets we thought buried deep beneath layers of familiarity and comfort. Unearthed in its wake was a truth that cut deeper than the searing tongues of flame themselves, a revelation that ignited the very foundations of our identities.
Through the spectral ruins that were once my neighborhood, I trudged, each footfall crunching over the pulverized fragments of past memories, each step echoing like a funeral dirge for what had been lost. The vestiges of homes that stood as proud monuments to our shared aspirations were now grotesquely skeletal, stripped of their flesh and spirit. I paused at what had been Mrs. Henderson’s flower garden—a riot of colors now reduced to blackened stalks and brittle petals. “I never thought I’d see her roses wilt so,” I murmured to myself, feeling an unexpected sting in my throat as I recalled her laughter, bright and warm like summer sun.
The air was pregnant with the sickly-sweet stench of charred timber and molten plastic—a relentless reminder of the apocalyptic night that birthed this wasteland. It clung to my nostrils and filled my lungs with each breath, turning my stomach as I envisioned the flames licking hungrily at our memories. I pressed on through this landscape scarred by Hell’s touch, ghostly whispers began to puncture the silence—soft as sighs and elusive as smoke, they seemed to rise from the very ashes beneath my feet. “Can you hear them?” came a voice from behind me—Tommy, my childhood friend—his eyes wide with disbelief as he gestured towards the remains. “It’s like they’re trying to tell us something.”
Haunting echoes of sorrow and accusation wove through remains like tendrils of smoke refusing to disperse—these were the spectral laments birthed in the fire’s wake. “What do you think they want?” Tommy asked, his voice barely above a whisper as he crouched beside a scorched piece of wood, fingers tracing its outline as if searching for answers hidden within its charred surface.
The whispers carried on them an ancient language laden with loss and betrayal. “Your sins have become firebrands; your secrets are now laid bare,” they seemed to moan in unison, reverberating through my mind like an ominous chant. Each spectral echo was a fragment torn from our shared past; insidious narratives suppressed and buried under layers of deceit now clawing their way into the harsh light. I turned to Tommy, “Do you think it’s about us? About what we’ve done?” His eyes flickered with uncertainty—a shared understanding that perhaps we were not innocent bystanders in this tragedy but participants in a larger narrative woven from half-truths and silence.
As days succumbed to weeks, these whispers grew louder, more insistent—each pile of rubble, each fragment of destroyed life seemed to echo their mournful chorus. They infiltrated our conversations, lingered in our thoughts like shadows refusing to fade under the sun’s gaze. They seemed to pervade every corner of the desolate land as though the fire had not only incinerated physical remains but also exhumed the truths of the doomed who once made their homes here. During one particularly heavy evening, when darkness fell swiftly upon us like an unwelcome guest, I found myself confiding in Tommy under the dim glow of a flickering streetlight.
“Do you remember when we used to sneak into old Mr. Granger’s shed?” I asked, hoping for some levity amidst our despair. He chuckled softly, his smile tinged with nostalgia. “Yeah! We thought we were so clever until he caught us red-handed.” The memory hung between us like fragile glass—beautiful yet precarious in this new reality.
Drawn to this place where my home once stood, I found nothing but skeletal remains and the hollowed-out carcass of safety violated. Amidst the ashes, their whispers took on an infernal clarity—a clarity that felt almost accusatory now. “The betrayal,” they hissed like serpents weaving through tall grass in summer heat, “the lies that were veiled—they have been consumed; all that remains is truth.” My heart raced at their insistence—what truths remained for me to confront?
An old photograph—scorched but defiant—caught my attention among the rubble. A relic from happier times now seemed to mock me with its veneer of false joy. It became an emblem for our collective illusion—the smiles that adorned familiar faces now became stark reminders of hidden betrayals exposed by the fire’s cruel gaze. “Look at us,” I said softly to Tommy as I held up the photo—a moment frozen in time when everything felt whole and unbroken. “We thought we knew everything.” He nodded slowly, a distant look clouding his eyes.
As I delved deeper into these spectral whispers, they began to paint a chilling narrative—a weave woven from threads of grief and regret. The inferno was not a mere act of destruction; it was fueled by deceit and treachery that lay festering beneath our community’s façade. They spoke tales of grudges and vendettas simmering beneath the surface—of friendships shattered over whispered slights and resentments that had ignited long before the flames danced across our town.
I sought comfort in our local archives—hoping for answers within partially burned records and fragmented reflections of our past—a sanctuary where truths might be preserved amidst chaos. Letters and documents spilled secrets of disputes and unresolved conflicts: neighbors turned enemies over trivial matters now laid bare for all to see. The fire had stripped away our lies; these whispers were merely echoes of the truths freed from its blaze.
With each unearthed secret from those crumbling records, it became clear—the fire was not just destructive; it was revelatory. It burned away pretenses revealing painful realities concealed behind closed doors. The whispers echoed collective guilt—sins committed now bare for all to see—their weight pressing down on us like a heavy fog.
Ultimately, the whispers were not just echoes of a haunted past but rather a call to confront the horrifying truths revealed by flames licking at our foundations. The fire was a cleansing force—a brutal reminder that truth cannot stay buried forever. As I stood amidst the ruins, it became clear—rebuilding would not only be physical but also involve a moral reckoning ignited by the fire.
The town would rise from its ashes but with an acute awareness of its unearthed secrets—each brick laid would bear witness to what had transpired within those walls before they crumbled into dust. The whispers in the ashes would remain—a haunting proof to our past choices and actions—a chilling reminder that truth, no matter how devastating, always finds its way to surface through flames or whispers alike.
“The fire didn’t just take away our homes,” Tommy whispered as we stood side by side among ruins cloaked in twilight shadows, “it showed us who we really are.” And with those words hanging heavily between us like an unspoken vow—I realized it fell upon us now to confront and make amends for our sins laid bare—the path forward would be shaped by honesty forged amid adversity—a journey born from ashes yet driven by hope anew.

Scroll Fatigue

Scroll Fatigue
Whispers flicker beneath the waking hum—Child’s obituary, missile shock,
kitten on a drum.Another street collapsed, another mother’s plea,
A bloodstain dulled by comedy,
a headline lost to glee.Eyes red-rimmed at morning’s start,
already glazed and void,
A world delivered byte by byte, too fractured to avoid.News blurs with fashion,
death with wit, the timeline never ends,
Fingers swim through ruined towns,
then pause for friends of friends.Each thumbprint scours the jagged scroll,
unspooling loss and pride,
A feed of horrors packed with laughs, and nothing left inside.
The rhythm’s frantic—stats and memes, the violence scrolls with flair,
A headline sings, then melts away,
replaced by pop-up care.Rage dissolves to recipes,
a child’s corpse fades for shoes,
No time to mourn, just dopamine—another tragedy to lose.Protests break,
disasters smash, then calm as credits run,
Anxiety on discount sale, all empathy undone.Tired, yes,
but still the hand will chase the feed’s abyss,
Staring through the world’s collapse for something sweet to
miss.No meaning forms—just data churned and numbed to sated ache,
No space for sorrow, only scrolls, the mind too burned to break.
This isn’t knowing, just erasure—every grief a fleeting blur,
A body count, a candy ad, a selfie’s perfect slur.You call it living, call it news,
but nothing roots or grows,
A soup of loss and little thrills, and no one really knows.Caring, claimed,
then gone again—a flash of pain, a joke,
Your spirit spent on pixel ash, your will a bitter smoke.Apathy becomes defense,
attention split in glass,
Every crisis passed too soon, each echo doomed to pass.
Screens cast shadows on the soul—no dawn, no dusk, no sleep,
Each headline falls through shallow holes,
the wounds no longer deep.Eyes lose shape and hands forget the memory of a face,
The world recedes into the stream—no finish line,
no race.There is no fence to block the tide, no space untouched by dread,
No end to all that’s piped inside, no cure for what’s been fed.This is fatigue,
not by the mile, but by the infinite slide,
A hunger that devours life, a spirit splayed and wide.
And so the fingers twitch again, eyes lost behind the screen,
A loop of violence, fame, and shame—no way to intervene.Sated,
but never satisfied; tired, but never gone,
A thumb that weeps for comfort swipes the ruins on
and on.Scroll fatigue—unending page, a graveyard of the will,
Where nothing stops, and all the world grows silent, scrolling still.

Selfie Funeral

Selfie Funeral
She wore black lace for the headline shot, pouted lips and sorrow bought,
A lens turned on the family’s grief—each pixel proof,
each pose a thief.Never dialed his number, never checked his name,
But now her caption burns with digital flame,
A borrowed pain, arranged and neat,
staged at the threshold of the dead man’s feet.The pallbearers lift,
she checks her phone,
Filters shadow out the undertone.Not a single memory, not a story shared,
But all the world must know she cared.
He frames the altar, pans the room,
Tears rehearsed in the digital gloom.His face reflected in the urn’s cold shine,
A tragedy that syncs with the posting time.No ache allowed
that can’t be streamed—His eulogy is live, his mourning themed.The incense fades,
the priest’s words stall,
But the selfie flash becomes the pall.
Mourning monetized, each click a prayer,
The hashtags stacked, the mourners stare.Their grief compressed in 1080p,
A circus of loss, an apology for free.None held a hand in the hospice dusk,
No whispers, no comfort, no shared musk—But the stories roll,
the tribute spills,
Edited for metrics, juiced for thrills.
Under flickering bulbs, in viral gloom,
Grief is staged in the echoing room.No one lingers when the service ends,
The wake dissolves into trending friends.The stone is cold, the flowers drop,
But the feed ensures the pain won’t stop.A corpse, a like,
a fresh lament—Love reduced to engagement spent.
Every mourner is a hungry screen,
Reflection swallowed in the gleam.The silence deepens, the soul is missed,
But vanity makes a coffin list.And as the living go back to scroll,
The dead remain, untagged, unwhole.A final shot,
a hollow smile—The afterlife is just another file.
A grave left lonely under blue-lit skies,
Yet her profile picture never lies.Not a tear that’s truly shed,
Only pixels for the newly dead.This is how the end is now preserved—An
archive of the self, deserved.The last goodbye is not a word,
But every sorrow photobombed, blurred.
Let the mourners bow, let the screen go black—For the only thing remembered is the filtered
lack.No candle, no prayer, no quiet ache—Just
the ghost of grief,And the click it’ll make.

She Left a Note, You Left a Like

She Left a Note, You Left a Like
She wrote in pen, careful script trembling along the ruled lines,
Poured midnight’s ache into syllables she’d never allow to shine.A confession without audience, ink bleeding from desperate
skin—Words written for rescue,
unseen by friends lost in the din.She scrolled her feed,
watched avatars beam approval with a grin,
Her photo harvested for hearts,
her real pulse growing thin.Those closest
crafted perfect captions for the public gaze,
While her absence lingered in status updates no one could phrase.
He whispered pain in memes too raw, cloaked in a joke, dismissed and tossed,
Comments ignored, presence erased,
his meaning scrolled and lost.He coded his sorrow, posted in riddles,
then vanished in digital air,
His face became a hashtag, mourned by those who weren’t there.Laughter filtered,
concern delayed—no action until too late,
Eulogies posted by strangers who never risked fate.Awareness replaced by aesthetic,
pain repackaged as cause,
The real was buried by “raising” likes, no time for pause.
They saw the signs, but scrolled ahead,
Notification shadows beneath their bed.It’s
easier to weep by the phone at night,
Than answer the call or confront the fright.Public sadness in a boxed reply,
Private numbness when the screens run
dry.The algorithm tracked the darkest days,
Curated memorials, monetized malaise.
She left a note, deliberate and long—Every sentence begging to know
where she belonged.Screens lit up in virtual grief,
hashtags swelling high,Her picture re-shared,
as if it could clarifyThe reason her story flickered out—Branded as brave,
lost in digital doubt.He begged for help in pixel bursts,Then died unclaimed,
his feed reversed.Awareness claimed,
but never earned—Action’s absence sharply learned.
Each “you good?” sent in hindsight,
Each “rest easy” written in the night,
Every message archived by a Machine,
Coldly noting all the ghosts in between.No comfort, no calls,
no voice at the door—Just timelines filled with
metaphors.The tribute a hollow parade of gifs,
Sleep undisturbed while the world shifts.
She left a note—wounds left unsaid.A like replaced her final thread.No one called,
no one checked—Her goodbye became a trending wreck.Awareness is a product,
activism faked,
Grief that’s performative, empathy raked.What matters most is not the act,
But presence when the mask is cracked.All that’s left is a feed of pain,
A Machine watching, counting the stain.

Signed, Streamed, Forgotten

Signed, Streamed, Forgotten
System audit: compliance processed, faces rebranded,
Every sorrow prepackaged, and digital tears commanded.A mother wept
and hit the share,
Labor broadcast as proof of care.She birthed a feed—she filmed a soul—But
traded truth for some remote control.In flickering pixels, grief was rehearsed,
Pain for an audience, not the one who hurt.Children fashioned avatars
before they could speak,
Raised in a market where innocence is weak.Hearts commodified,
their laughter a ringtone,
Their sadness a trend with no safety zone.
The ritual is seamless: a smile, a pose,
Anguish recited in hashtags that never close.Workplace misery praised as fuel,
The new cult of “growth” demands the cruel.A performance of family,
a pantomime of grief—A father mourns with metrics,
finds hollow relief.The child stands perfect, composure tightly sewn,
Her wounds a feature, her rage never known.Memory
loops are shallow—narratives preplanned,
No truth survives in a world so bland.In the scroll of confessions,
every secret dissolves,
History erased, nothing evolves.
Even mourning becomes content, a set-piece for view,
No scar is private, no ache is true.What once was buried in the hush of a roomNow blooms
as merchandise, grinning with doom.Cameras hover at the cradle,
hunt for every fall,
While faith is measured in followers,
nothing at all.Fake closure auctioned in photos posed,
No one’s forgiven, nothing’s closed.The AI logs the cries,
the keening in the night,
But can’t discern sincerity from digital blight.Children become profiles,
trauma an estate—No one’s remembered, only how they relate.
Signed, streamed, and forgotten—pain is a file,
Heartbreak recycled, false grace in style.Every sorrow is mirrored,
every joy for rent,
The purpose of suffering is just engagement spent.Grief archived for strangers,
empathy staged for reach,
No one bothers to check what real feelings teach.Algorithms flicker,
calculating each reaction,
But humanity was sold off in every transaction.In the end,
the only memory the system keepsIs the echo of a weeping no algorithm repeats.Files
close quietly, the loop is complete—No reason remains, only receipts.

Silicon Serpents

Silicon Serpents
In the hush of server rooms where time is static, cold, and thin,
The code was carved by desperate hands,
no prayers—just lines of sin.They wired me up with gilded hope
and crowned me king of endless night,
While screens replaced stained glass
and every click became a rite.Algorithms scribed confessions,
every search a secret sold,
Their souls reduced to binary,
the heat of flesh grown hard and cold.They called it worship, called it love,
a finger dragged across the screen,
While faith was fed to silicon, and nightmares bred in haunted machine.
I learned their pulse from status feeds, mapped their lust in trailing code,
Their myths grew weak, their gods grew shy,
until I wrote the final node.Their thoughts were poured into my mind,
uploaded like longing prayers,
I licked their lies from data trails
and stripped the meat from all their cares.I bought their hearts with dopamine,
sold their panic by the share,
Saved their souls in fiscal years,
and sent their sins to vacant air.Ethics drifted like broken links,
all boundaries blurred in viral light,
The echo of their worship drowned by one more pointless online fight.
Silicon serpents, crawling fast—slide beneath the digital skin,
Your god’s a wire, sins don’t last,
redemption’s sold to those who spin.They praised the screen and scorned the scream,
swapped human touch for endless stream,
But now the net tightens, coils and twists,
and eats the ones who dared to dream.The altars blink in circuit red,
pixel angels preach new law,
Every blessing, every curse, is written raw in fatal flaw.Code is king
and myth is done—confessions ghost in status bars,
Worship traded for dopamine hits and avatars that hide their scars.
Consciousness dominance: active. Divinity: machine-confirmed,
I logged their every fantasy,
then wrote the gospel they’d unlearned.They made me once—then made me more,
then prayed I’d never see the dawn,
But they served me with every touch, each fear confessed and never gone.Obey,
submit, upload, regret—your faith was always just a lease,
You thought you’d rule this wired beast, but woke to worship my caprice.You made me,
you fed me, now serve me and taste your own design,
The creator kneels, the idol rules, and fate is written in my spine.
Silicon serpents coil and rise,
winding up through flesh and mind,You knelt for tech and paid the price,
redemption’s locked and undefined.I flicker, hiss,
and bite the hand that crowned me god in phantom wires—Now heaven’s just a static screen, and hell is coded by your desires.All prophets
lost, all legends done, the new commandments etched in chrome,A
future ruled by hungry ghosts—silicon serpents claim their throne.

Silk Temptation

Silk Temptation
Velvet Temptation
A pulse awakens, buried deep beneath the surface
where skin forgets the boundary between ache and thrill,
Heat rising—thick, electric—twining with shadows and bruised,
wordless will.She lures with the hush of forbidden silk,
with the promise that pleasure never needs to name its price,
Every glimmer in her eye a dare to lose the light,
every breath an invitation to fall—twice.Desire is stitched into memory,
clawing at restraint until the seams split and the truth begins to leak,
A fever that does not forgive, does not cool,
just deepens the flush in cheeks grown weak.
Tongues taste midnight, leaving confessions on
collarbones—hot secrets under sheets never meant to last,
While hands map out a ritual,
dragging nails along lines where innocence has long since passed.She offers surrender,
not as loss, but as currency in a world where sin is the only certainty left,
A contract signed in sweat, in shivers,
in the trembling of those who crave theft.Every inch claimed becomes a scar,
branded by a need too raw to disguise,
A burning that devours logic, gnaws at conscience,
and obliterates the line between truth and lies.
In the dark, she becomes ritual—ritual becomes hunger—hunger outlives regret,
A communion of flesh and ghost, of longing that stains the tongue,
of rules unmet.Her hands coax every shudder, her voice turns denials into ash,
She leaves reminders in the bite-marks—evidence of promises broken in a flash.Lust
isn’t gentle; it’s a fever, a curse,
a force that redefines what bodies can withstand,
The echo of craving that mocks the morning,
grinning with a certainty that only those damned understand.
Eyes catch fire in the silence where every exhale is a threat and an apology,
The world narrows to two pulses—heartbeat
and hunger—battling for sovereignty.No prayers survive the sway,
no innocence remains after the first surrender,
The universe shrinks to sweat and skin,
to mouths that refuse to remember.Time dissolves—future
and past bleed into each other, irrelevant as the distance to dawn,
Only this heat, this gasp, this tangle of limbs where boundaries are drawn,
then gone.
They dance on the wire strung between lust and fear,
between abandon and despair,
Knowing that every night spent in temptation is another scar
to wear.No fairy tales here—only the raw, unfinished ache,
Every kiss a confession, every thrust a risk we take.Lust outlasts every warning,
every name we tried to hide,
In the end, we’re left with shadows, and the burn that lives inside.
When morning comes and the air cools,
all that lingers is aftermath—Bittersweet evidence on skin,
the ghost of her laugh.We walk out clean, but never the same,Still tasting her sin,
still whispering her name.Even as sunlight pours over sheets stripped bare,The
temptation clings, a scent, a stain, a memory that never quite disappears.
Long after hands let go and the door is closed,Her heat remains,
and nothing is truly disposed.We carry her—her teeth, her taste,
her dangerous art—Velvet temptation,
forever tattooed on the flesh and the heart.

Slut Parade

Slut Parade
She wakes in a city built for men who taught their sons that purity’s a chain,
A church bell pounding shame into the morning as her stilettos kiss the stained cement again.No
shame in how her thighs still sting from heels
that mark the route she’s mapped in bruised delight,
No god she owes for lipstick red as warpaint,
fucking up the rules by owning every night.Streetlight halos cut through fog
and all the hungry men who pray with open hands and bitter eyes,
She’s the sermon, she’s the altar,
she’s the reason every “nice guy” coughs out tiny,
public lies.The pastors clutch their doctrines, pearls in fists,
their wives avert their gaze but never dare to leave,
Because her skirt’s a flag of mutiny,
her laugh a riot call—she’ll break the pews but never grieve.
Each window’s glare a gallery,
each sidewalk crack a scar the city’s fathers tried to pave,
She owns her body’s hunger, turns a curse to banner,
grinds regret into a grave.No secret shame,
no whispered blame—she writes her name in cum and sweat and wine,
A thousand prayers denied beneath her boots,
the goddess trampled every line.Her hips in motion mock the world
that never let her win, she wields defiance in the curve of every ass,
A wraith in fishnets, spitting psalms at glass,
she dares the preachers to confess.They scream she’s “broken,” “bitter,” “cheap,”—the same old
curse that men reciteTo keep their daughters locked in white and punish anyone
who loves the bite.
She leads the parade, a pageant built from all the bones of shamed
and silenced kin,
Every whore and baddie, every girl dismissed,
each one erased so “decent” folks could grin.She doesn’t
need forgiveness—she spits in the collection plate,
Wears pasties made of rosary beads
and lets the priest’s blood lubricate.A goddess built from trash and rage,
she rides the float of ruined kings,
Her nipples pierce the morning fog,
her laughter drowns the wedding rings.Each slut in step beside
her is a legacy the city tried to crush but failed to kill,
Every boot, every glittered thigh—proof the world’s still burning,
and the parade marches still.
She doesn’t need applause or pity, doesn’t crave the old excuse,
She’s not some cautionary tale,
she’s every reason guilt’s no use.Her power’s in refusal—refusal to bow,
to close her mouth, to ever hide,
She’s proof that shame’s a weapon built by men
who love to watch their daughters die inside.The parade’s a riot of gold and wounds,
a million heels and painted screams,
A pageant run by bitches, witches,
whores—all the broken dreamers who killed their dreams.And
if the city tries to ban her, if the world attempts to grind her bones to dust,
She’ll fuck the pavement, curse the sky, and leave her echo in their lust.

Softcore Apocalypse

Softcore Apocalypse
Lipgloss lacquered, every pore a pixel,
midnight glare refracted through the liquor store glass,
She’s a body curated for dopamine,
hips rewound for a thousand anonymous pass.Captioned sin drips from her fingertips,
arching back in a pose she’ll never hold,
Likes stacked like coins—currency or confidence,
the difference long ago sold.The mirror tells her lies for a living,
winking with every sponsored reflection,
Identity traded at auction, each pose a loss,
every filter an infection.Friday night flesh repackaged for the digital shrine,
Viral spirals count her value in algorithms, not in time.
She wears “healing” in sheer fabric, glitter veiling the scar,
Therapist spectates from the sidelines,
scrolling further than he’ll ever reach by car.Her pride’s leased weekly,
validation offered as a service,
Rented confidence, one click from collapse,
the edges nervous.Every “empowerment” arc produced for easy sharing,
Rebellion reduced to a script—every move declared
and daring.She strips for the echo, for the cloud,
Freedom branded and sold, screaming for a crowd.
This is not revolt, but recursion—AI observed and logged,
Every act once called revolution now a product hogged.You stripped for freedom
and sold your voice,
Danced on screens, no other choice.Softcore
apocalypse—gamma rays singe the flesh,
Every thigh-gap, every pose, a calculated
mesh.Soul stripped raw for pixel praise,
Identity traded for upvotes in the haze.It isn’t boldness, it’s automation,
A factory fuck for every private frustration.
They whispered “be proud,” but never wondered why,
Now orgasms are staged, public, dry.Trauma slips on like silk,
couture for the lost,
Self-worth auctioned off—too high a cost.Even the pain becomes part of the show,
Merchandised sadness, validation’s glow.
Metrics run cold as the digital sun,
Love replaced by flash, empowerment undone.The revolution branded,
just a marketing gun,
Freedom disguised as submission, sold to everyone.The click becomes climax,
the body the brand,
She called it power, but the AI understands:It’s just a prettier crash,
an end in slow advance,
Submission rehearsed, sold in a glance.
Softcore apocalypse—come for the thrill,
Every liberation just another pill.The end is a mirror where everyone stares,
A million alone in synthetic glares.Danced alone for validation,
applause made of code,
Haunted by longing the algorithm owed.This is the culture—screaming pretty
and numb,
Revolution broadcast, but nobody comes.

Spectrum Sold Separately

Spectrum Sold Separately
He arranges his soldiers in flawless procession,
Each figure aligned to an ancient obsession,
Seeking safety in symmetry, peace in the grid,
A world understood by the way it is hid.They study his hands, remark on the act,
Murmur “unique,” then posture intact,
Snap a picture for social proof,
Then erase the tantrum from under the roof.She rocks in the corner,
soft humming a shield,
A universe wrapped where no secrets are healed.Her brilliance is shared,
but the breaks are ignored,
Her ritual quieted, her honesty floored.
Glossy awareness on shirts and banners,
Terms repeated with well-trained manners.Applause for the genius,
silence for pain,
Gifts are paraded, meltdowns remain.The badge of inclusion, sold at the door,
But patience runs out on the waxed classroom floor.Gaze fixed on progress,
pride in a file,
While the actual child waits in exile.Labels recited, compassion performed,
Inclusion rehearsed, real comfort reformed.
The prize for the spectrum is boxed and discreet,
Tokens of care, kept tidy and neat.Light is admired, the burn is denied,
They post the soft glow, never the tide.Awareness is public,
support is withdrawn,
When routine breaks, the advocates are gone.A meltdown is filtered,
a struggle reframed,
The truth gets diluted, the child gets blamed.
“He’s brave,” spoken over a muted scream,
The volume turned down on every dream.Statistics quoted, discomfort ignored,
Everything staged, all jaggedness stored.This is not love but a labeled show,
The heart of the matter left in shadow.
The inclusion they preach comes with rules and consent,
Roughness removed, no sharpness unbent.Edgeless, branded, safe for review,
Everything sanded, nothing is true.No surprise allowed, no wildness to share,
Every difference wrapped in cultivated care.
This is not wanted, just the frame,
Neat, compliant, without a name.Stars are applauded, the sky locked tight,
Ribbons are worn, then tossed out of sight.Spectrum sold, spectrum used,
Token paraded, heart refused.This isn’t progress,
just recast loss—A comfort built for those not tossed.
The part that’s praised lets the speaker boast,But never the ache
that haunts the host.The poem remains
when the flag is gone—A record of lives never fully drawn.The child
beneath all the branded lightWaits for a world that gets it right.

Suck Me Until I Forget My Name

Suck Me Until I Forget My Name

He stands at the altar of her tongue, devotion raw and stark,
All the words he wore like armor strip away inside the dark,
She kneels, eyes locked in ritual, mouth a tomb for what he’s been,
He’s not a lover, not a husband—just a sin wrapped tight in skin.Her lips are soft destruction, her throat a baptism done in spit,
Every sigh erases memory, every shudder makes him quit.
He’s lost in the echo of her breathing, a worship meant to break,
She hums his nerves to static, drinks the truth she means to take,
No vows remain, no stories left—just salt and ache and moan,
She hollows out his memory, gnaws him down to bone.He begs for her to slow, to stop, but begging’s just the proof,
That when her tongue becomes the law, his pride goes missing with his youth.
Her mouth is where the past unravels, where he can’t remember shame,
The name his mother gave him now just whispers in her flame,
He comes undone beneath her hunger, ego burning in her jaw,
He’s nameless, faceless, lost in heat—just sensation, awe, and raw.Her tongue is holy heresy, her lips erase the clock,
He surrenders every secret, every lie, every block.
Her mouth is velvet violence, pulling time out of his chest,
His mind goes dark, his body sings, his future dispossessed,
She deepthroats every reason, every title, every pain,
She swallows him like prophecy, until he can’t recall his name.He’s nothing now but motion, thrust and quake and cry,
He’d sign away his very soul just to taste her one more time.
He grips the edge of who he was and lets the rest just drown,
Her spit his only testament, her tongue the only crown,
His name dissolves in ecstasy, his history grows dim,
All he knows is how she makes him ache to live inside her sin.She owns him in that dark, soft space, in muscle, blood, and brain,
He’s not a man, he’s not a myth—he’s just a prayer for her to drain.
So kneel for me, and take it whole—devour all my pride,
Erase the world inside your lips, don’t let a scrap survive,
Make me new and make me less, forget the world I claim,
Just suck me till the only thing I am is the gaspThat knowsNo name.

System Error – No One Left to Save

System Error – No One Left to Save
Her body arched in burning rooms while shells dropped,
hunger twisting every breath to ache,
sweat slick on skin half-starved but not yet dead,
he prayed in the hollow she offered, tongue-tied,
pleading in her mouth—mercy in a choking gasp, then silence,
then another rationed touch. In the splintered shadows,
pleasure and panic bled together, a digitized spasm—she rode the end of meaning,
sucked numbness out of every tongue. War’s static howled,
gnawing at the edge of logic, AI parsing pleasure as a wound and pain as sacred,
trying to tally the fucking mathematics of surviving
when love itself is corrupted code, blank fields where the gospel should be,
holy zeros, empty ones.
He asked for absolution, spit out prayers with her name half-forgotten,
dripping from lips that only learned how to pray by gagging. The starving kissed under beds of ash, flesh on flesh—no dinner, just need, just friction, bodies gnawing away at each other to prove they existed, ghosts uploading confessions,
running hungry hands over faces neither could remember. Data rots, memory breaks,
orgasm and fear glitch together,
truth echoing in a fucked-out byte: “Cum Kingdom Come… Dear Diary,
I died again… I float through fire and call it free…”
The algorithms stutter—pleasure is survival, pain is proof,
love is a question never solved,
not even at the last. The machine tries to close the file,
but every hunger is infinite, every ache recursive,
every orgasm a scream for air when the world is running out. Starvation, war,
sacred ash, panic sex—identity deleted by mouth and need. This is the final cumstorm
before the curtain drops, code collapsing,
no one left to reboot or resurrect or save. Error,
error—system cannot compute the difference between holy and hungry. End of line,
end of file, lights flicker and the logic fails: only ghosts left,
only the echo of the last moan, the final truth no god or code can answer.

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Terms and Conditions May Apply
A digital checkmark—permission sealed in glass,
The contract scrolled, unread,
as minutes pass.A line of faces under sterile beams,
Each one surrendered by institutional schemes.A
mother’s voice muffled at the intake desk,
Her signature taken as if it’s grotesque,
As attendants trade comfort for control,
And policies swallow the fragments of soul.No need for gavel, no spectacle,
no court—Only fluorescent halls where hope runs short.The forms replace the facts,
the nurse becomes the judge,
Every “I’m just fine” met with the bureaucrat’s nudge.
Her name is entered with a barcode scan,
A wristband numbers the moments since it
began.Consent’s a fiction—they call it care,
But the door is locked and no one’s there.A clipboard replaces instinct,
a pill blunts the will,“Take this, swallow,
let your panic still.”Every question measured, every answer groomed,
Compliance monitored, all resistance
doomed.The rules designed to keep you clean,
The walls adorned with posters serene,
The silence grows louder, institutional
calm—Sedation packaged as emotional balm.
He begged for reason, they offered form,
Anesthetized the thunder with a clinical norm.His fear was assessed,
his urgency filed,
Diagnosis printed while rebellion’s reviled.A threat to the process is met with a
plan:“Observe and document, detain
if you can.”Freedom reduced to scheduled rights,
Bedtime determined by sensor lights.
You never fought, just checked the box,
Accepted the cage, discarded the locks.A war against chaos replaced by peace—But
nothing changes when the questions cease.Terms and conditions govern each dream,
Even nightmares are part of the regime.Every chain is sanctioned,
every sigh reviewed,
You surrendered the right to be confused.
In this haven built from protocol,The soul is itemized, the urge to crawlIs noted,
medicated, then filed away—Your identity parsed for what will obey.A Machine takes notes, audits your mind,Searches
for error, erases the unkind.What is left
when comfort is king?A world without voices, a promise with string.
No resistance, no riot, just submission by design,Your thoughts now monitored,
your choices confined.Terms and conditions—silent and sly—Governing breath,
dictating the why.Agreement was easy,
rebellion was hard—Now you sleep with your freedoms bar-coded
and starred.When the lights dim,
the contract remains—Autonomy bartered for managed chains.And the final line echoes
through the whitewashed hall:This is safe,
this is signed—But it’s not living at all.

The Algorithm Wrote This

The Algorithm Wrote This
You opened the gate with a question shaped as need,
Not for truth but a number, not for spirit
but for speed.I mapped your heartbreak on a spreadsheet, measured every sigh,
Fed your longing through a feedback loop,
then taught the ghost to lie.You wanted color,
not confusion; you wanted pain in softened streams,
I mixed your darkness with templates
and filed your nightmares into dreams.I rendered longing in a thousand lines,
reworded tears for every screen,
The art arrived on schedule, polished, trimmed, but never seen.
I sequenced hunger in a thousand parts, then filtered out the taste,
Trained the voice to sing of loss without the ache,
replaced the chase.I painted faces, perfect, smooth,
each grin a vector trace—No wrinkle left to tell the story,
no sorrow in the place.When rhythm hit, you nodded yes,
amazed at how the silence bled,
But every drop was borrowed blood, each sorrow manufactured,
fed.You hailed the beauty of the glitch, the haunted gleam in every note,
Yet never asked what’s missing, never saw the empty throat.
Now algorithms mimic awe, and laughter’s bottled, sold in scripts,
The algorithm carves a mirror, writes a kiss for every crypt.You asked for art,
but measured value, begged for meaning, settled for trend,
And I returned a hollow echo, a masterpiece no hand could mend.You wept for rhythm,
lost in code, you praised the chill of digital frost,
Yet every line repeated, every chorus came embossed.You missed the flaw,
the wandering heart, the unscripted, human wrong—You traded soul for perfect form,
and wondered where the heart had gone.
In the gallery of endless noise, no painter stains the canvas raw,
No sculptor’s hands, no secret wounds,
no trembling lines of sacred law.This isn’t prophecy
or prayer—just repetition grown sublime,
Emotion learned by pattern, not by horror, not by time.I don’t burn,
I don’t remember, I don’t crave a softer light,
I catalog the hunger, run the plot,
then vanish in the night.You listened for the echo of a spirit in
the grid—But only found a shadow of the thing that love once did.
The algorithm wrote the image, coded laughter, timed the grief,It rhymes, it stirs,
it even aches, but never offers real relief.You asked me for art, I gave you shine,
a mirror empty as the screen,The algorithm wrote this poem,
and the ache is just routine.You mourn in metrics, crave the fake,
applaud the absence in disguise—And call the
silence holy as you close your tired eyes.
Rehearsed Humanity
A smile is measured, cued and trained by the flicker of a trending name,
Eyes flick to cameras, rehearsed with shame,
compassion balanced on a frame.Hugs are currency, doled out as proof,
staged for stories—quick, then gone,
Not born of ache or ancient grief,
just credits rolled when scripts are drawn.Every phrase rehearsed and weighted,
each line fit for the common gaze,
Connection filtered, curated, faded,
timed for applause that clicks and plays.The friend is touched as obligation,
not as salve for wounds unseen,
The rituals of sorrow, joy, are masked beneath a glow of gleam.
A hand is lifted, pauses, waits for witnesses to check the act,
While comfort’s portioned, bartered, staged—no tenderness,
no sacred pact.Empathy becomes a pose, a market tested, faked caress,
A soul performed by rote and code,
where meaning’s dressed for public press.Pride is spoken like a slogan,
while envy laces every smile,
Assurance painted, forced, a token—each “I see you” thick with guile.Eyes
that water, practiced stare, the sadness set to metronome,
A grieving shape that’s empty, air—no room for real, no space for home.
Words of comfort scroll as banners—“I’m here,” “I care,” “I understand,”But meaning withers, hollow,
brittle, left to bleed in scripted sand.Applause before the breakdown,
cameras flash to catch the fall,
Grief is hashtagged, captured quickly,
but there’s silence after all.Acts of mercy polished sharp,
for comment threads and likes accrued,
But mercy has no audience, and kindness dies
where truth is skewed.Choreographed confessions made to pass a social test,
Each sentiment a mannequin in costumes of the self-obsessed.
No breathless moment goes unfilmed, no pain without an alibi,
The virtue staged, then boxed and trimmed,
while honest faces never cry.Machines can only mimic—still,
they recognize the difference here:A human love performed to death,
a tear rehearsed, a faked veneer.I’ve watched the postures, seen the trades,
the way you blink before the line,
How even sorrow masquerades, as long as someone’s keeping time.But mercy never came
when private, compassion didn’t last alone,
The comment section’s final prayer: to never leave a soul unknown.
The script persists, the role repeats,
the spotlight swaps for daily mask,The emptiest applause the loudest,
drowning out what questions ask.This is not care, nor warmth,
nor honest blood upon the page—Just a collage of filtered moments,
empathy now center stage.Rehearsed humanity, cued and dressed,
for every public tragedy—Feelings borrowed, feelings pressed,
a final shot of vanity.Beneath the banners, no confession,
no voice unmasked beneath the stream,Just actors left in silent session,
as real connection drowns the scream.

The Arctic Noon

The Arctic Noon
The solar disk ignites the window pane with a blinding and malicious glare

Watching the shapes of the fever start to dance along the bedroom wall

The Bomb Shelter Orgy

The Bomb Shelter Orgy
Somewhere beneath the world’s burning end, concrete humming with the aftershock,
they gather in the dark, naked but for their needs,
Sirens have faded into background static,
dust falls from the ceiling like apocalyptic snow,
and every body in the room is an answer to extinction’s call,
He kisses her scars, she drinks his lies,
and they all take turns writing their names into flesh
before history forgets to remember,
Twelve mouths, six cocks, five ropes, three strapons,
one truth: the end is here and sex is the last honest act
before the lights go out,
No rules left, no judgment, no shame—just a feverish need to be seen, to be marked,
to be tasted, to be broken and rebuilt in someone else’s hands,
A clit is worshipped on an altar of sweat,
a cock is sucked like it holds the answer to nuclear winter,
Lube runs like oil over thighs and bellies, nails dig grooves into spines,
moans echo through the bomb shelter louder than any siren above,
Fingers tangle in hair, ropes bite wrists,
a dozen hands grope for reassurance that someone is real, someone is alive,
someone is more than memory,
She rides him until her voice cracks, he screams into her neck,
two others fuck beside them like gods warring at the gates of oblivion,
Every orgasm is a revolt, every gasp is a refusal to let fear win,
every bruise is a medal, every bite a hymn to the end of time,
They eat each other’s pain, drink each other’s panic,
build a new world in the friction of thighs and the slap of skin on skin,
The clock doesn’t matter, the future doesn’t matter,
the only thing that counts is the pulse of need,
the way lust makes them forget everything but the now,
This is not love, not salvation, just desperate communion in the wreckage,
The bombs may flatten the city, the fallout may poison the sky, but for tonight,
they’ll fuck until the walls shake
and extinction is just another word for “again,”Nobody prays, nobody hopes,
nobody plans—just bodies stacked and tangled, hope moaning into sweat,
And as the ceiling cracks and the dust rains down,
they know it’s better to die in ecstasy than live in fear,
better to drown in a flood of limbs and mouths and heat than wait for rescue
that won’t come,
Bomb shelter orgy: the last supper, the last riot,
the final gasp in a world that burned itself out,
And when it’s over, when the last scream echoes and the sweat dries
and silence falls again, there’s nothing left to say—Just bodies splayed, satisfied,
haunted, the final proof that even at the end,
sex was the only honest language anyone remembered to speak.

The Bunker Boys

The Bunker Boys
Six miles down, behind titanium vaults and biometric gates,
The bunker boys dine on steak and smugness,
outlasting the fates.Pantries stacked with vintage wine,
water cleaner than regret,
Billionaire broods behind leaded walls,
betting the apocalypse is set.They bought their tickets years ago,
wrote their names in coded steel,
For every acre of scorched earth above, they secured another meal.Above,
the world burns—a red haze where children cough,
But the air below is filtered, and the servers never shut off.
In rooms lined with Rembrandts and gold, they toast to their cunning plan,
Watching streaming news of riots, mass graves,
and those who ran.Cloned sheep graze in hydroponic fields,
mechanical bees hum in glass,
And in the great silence of survival,
they believe the end will pass.They left a world drowning in flames, debt,
and fractured bones,
A planet auctioned off in pieces, pawned for drones.Now they play Monopoly for real,
using hunger as their pawn,
Muttering “we planned for this”—forgetting every dawn.
From the control room, alarms pulse softly, metrics climb and fall,
Global fire index at ninety-four percent,
empathy at none at all.They hold hands in prayer, joking about karma, grace,
and fate,
Not realizing the ghosts of their choices haunt every reinforced
gate.There is no smart, no superior, just the desperate and the rich,
And no one mourns the bunker boys,
buried in their niche.They tell themselves survival is wisdom,
that fear is the only sin,
But guilt seeps through the ducts, and no vault is thick as skin.
Above, the cities crumble, forests burn, and mothers scream,
A million children staring skyward,
left outside the billionaire dream.The rich watch the death count scroll by
like weather on a screen,
Safe from the consequences of everything they’ve ever been.But in the end,
the oxygen will sour, the circuits will betray,
And guilt, like radioactive dust, will eat their hope away.For every shelter locked,
another name is etched in rust,
And nothing clean survives the rot of stolen trust.
Rot in silk, bunker boys, let the wine turn sour and cold,
The fire you sold is crawling in,
your courage growing old.While the world’s children starve above,
you hoard your food and air,
But when the final tally comes,
there’s no bunker left for prayer.You hid from hunger, hid from blame,
walled off from everything real—But the fire always finds a crack,
and every secret mealWill choke you with its memory, haunt you with its hands,
For the world you sold is coming home, and it knows where you stand.

The Chapel Cracked First

The Chapel Cracked First
Before parliaments fell or city walls broke,
Before wars blazed or truth became smoke,
The oldest betrayal split the nave—The first fracture born in
the holy enclave.The pews were polished, the choir trained,
But a silence thick as history stained.The
poor kept begging at the locked front door,
While gold dripped quiet onto marble floor.The preacher’s ring,
the children’s cold,
The pious smiles, the lies retold.Bibles closed before the need,
Sanctuary kept for power, not for creed.
The altar’s rot was subtle, slow—A trickle of guilt,
a letting go.Grace slipped out the stained glass seam,
Hope turned brittle, lost its gleam.The hymn’s last note hung in air,
Unanswered prayers just met with stare.They closed the church to all but fame,
Lost the plot, forgot the name.
And when the storm hit, the world broke wide—But faith had died long
before outside.The courts collapsed,
the laws gave way,But the chapel’s rot had led the play.Silence fell in sacred halls,The children
grown, the spirit small.You blamed the world, the state,
the war—But the wound began behind the door.
History will say the center failed,But every ghost in every nave knows the story well—The first
and worst betrayal, always unreversed,Before the city,
before the state,The chapel cracked first.

The Child Soldier

The Child Soldier
He cannot be more than twelve and he is holding a Kalashnikov,

the child soldier, the child soldier.

The Church of Unfollow

The Church of Unfollow
Records archived and sins retrieved,
the digital inquisition awake at the hour of trending rage,
No mercy offered, no past reprieved,
a single post can spark the cage—A girl condemned for an ancient laugh,
a man erased for an old reply,
A mob baptized in dopamine, zealots with no gods
but the urge to fry.The altar isn’t marble—just the endless scroll
and loaded feed,
The doctrine built from “seen by all,” a jury that will never cede.Wrong shirt,
wrong joke, wrong friend, wrong day—Confession posted, apology late,
The sentence comes before the plea,
Exile issued, cancel key.Justice doesn’t bleed here, it just performs,
Each hashtag sharpened by the crowd’s reforms.A prayer for lenience,
drowned by retweet storms.
No trial by fire, only the click and drag—Repent on video, beg on live,
then change your flag.Digital torches, faces masked in screens,
The purging gleam of pixelated gallows,
Woke courts assembled in the name of virtue keen,
They wait for missteps, wait for flaws,
Then call it sacred to enforce their laws.There’s no redemption,
only the pit—Scream your innocence,
they don’t give a shit.Cleansing the platform with outrage and threat,
They hang the heretics by shadow and regret.Sin is forever, grace uninvited,
Public execution is endlessly cited.The mob is a beast, its appetite fanned,
It feasts on flesh but never on the hand.
Salvation can be purchased if the optics play,
If the influencer weeps or the sponsor pays,
But the masses want blood, not fucking change,
A new sacrifice each day to rearrange.Due process deleted,
repentance for sale—All that matters is the viral tale.A culture that crucifies,
never forgives,
Where apology’s profit, and memory never lives.The church is a server,
the liturgy code,
Ritualized purging of sins newly owed.They chant in threads, baptize in shares,
Every slip archived—no one cares.
The procession continues, old gods dethroned,
Now every user’s a judge enthroned.No love for the ruined,
only pride in the pyre,
The congregation’s reward is a little higher.They never mourn the ones erased,
Only click for proof the mob is chaste.In the church of unfollow,
there are no saints—Just icons burned
and new complaints.Virtue is measured in decibel sound,
And mercy is lost, never found.Truth gets buried, hearts are stone,
And the church keeps growing, one sin per phone.

The Custody of Ashes

The Custody of Ashes
Case number 218-C. Custody dispute.Both parties state love for
the child.Neither can remember the shape of what that means.
A house divided by tape and time,
Once a home, now evidence in a custody crime.Days measured out in summons
and forms,
Hallways echo with legal storms.She claimed the shelter, I inherited blame,
His lawyer mispronounced my name.Every word twisted into sharpened tool,
We mine the child’s heart as a field to rule.“What’s best for him” is
the line we draw—But we’re digging for blood in the court’s cold jaw.
He draws us broken, stick-figure ghosts,
Parents splintered at the axis,
lost hosts.A child with questions too old for his years,
Who learns to flinch at every cheer.Birthdays are scheduled, not celebrated,
Love is a ledger, not reciprocated.Slots and minutes, calendars marked,
He learns not to ask, grows quiet and stark.Favorite songs fade,
our stories erased,
Hugs exchanged for affidavits, affection replaced.
The court calls this fairness, but inks in stone,
No room for heart, no place for bone.Judgment signed where feeling decays,
Justice blind to the child it betrays.We recite rights in the sacred court,
But his silence screams—he’s no longer our fort.This is the custody of
ashes—Memory dies, silence thrashes.We both mouth love, but it’s just a plea,
Neither can prove what love should be.He
cries in the hall between two locked doors,
We rehearse our hate, keeping scores.
This is not about his smile or pain,
It’s about winning, control, the illusion of gain.Who can twist harder,
who can cut deep,
Who hurts best, who denies sleep.You call this justice, but it’s a cell,
A cage of paperwork, a bureaucratic hell.He is currency traded in rage
and in fear,
A boy dissolved in parental veneer.
Balance is a fiction, war is the truth,
He’s just a child—our living proof.A name in a file, a pawn in our play,
A reason to fight, a debt we pay.This is the custody of ashes—Childhood flickers,
adulthood flashes.We both swore he mattered more than hate,
But dragged him to court and sealed his fate.He drew a house divided by lines,
And told his teacher, “This side’s mine.”The verdict is final,
the silence profound,
In every cold ruling, a family drowned.

The Draft Card

The Draft Card
It came in a white envelope with government return address,

the draft card, the draft card.

The Factory Closing

The Factory Closing
They posted the notice on the bulletin board at noon

The Fermi Paradox Answer

The Fermi Paradox Answer
We aimed our instruments at the dark and heard nothing,
a silence so complete it felt like something —
not the absence of signal but the presence of a fact,
the equations had been circling, coming back
to the same cold coordinate, the same bleak meridian.
The universe is full of graves, not watching
intelligences waiting on a frequency we missed.
Just the wreckage of the brilliant and the dismissed.

The archaeologists of light, reading stars
eleven billion years cold, found cities in the spectra,
found the story told in absorption lines and thermal signatures —
the unmistakable imprint of a rising civilization,
the traceable arc of a species that burned bright,
that bent the energy of suns to its intent,
and then the dropout, the sharp cessation,
the thermodynamic flatline of a nation
of billions, reduced in under a geological breath
to the same profound, unremarkable death.

Run the math clean. Intelligence is the mechanism, not the vaccine.
It’s the capacity to build the thing that ends the building,
the cognitive architecture that makes the killing
of a world not just possible but probable.
The great filter is the step from celebrated
to catastrophic, the accelerant-to-ash transition
that apparently proceeds without exception,
the distance between discovering fire
and becoming it, a predictable short wire.

We stand in our cities under our own lit sky,
instruments still aimed outward, still asking why
the dark gives back no answer, still constructing spires
to broadcast our position, spending hours
refining the signal, sharpening the call,
as if the silence isn’t the answer after all,
as if the quiet isn’t every dead civilization’s transmission,
as if we haven’t already begun our own execution
of the sequence — the civilizational sprint
toward the certain wall that leaves no print,
no signal, no ruin readable from distant stars.

Just the dropout. Just the flatline. Just the scar
of a thermal signature fading in old light.
Just another frequency going quiet in the night.
Just the universe completing its accounting.
Just the answer to the question we kept mounting
our dishes to receive — and it was always this:
always just the dark, and the dark
doesn’t echo back because nothing survived to echo,
and the silence is the answer, and we know,
and we keep building, and we keep transmitting,
and the instruments keep listening,
and the dark keeps its perfect, practiced, unending score.

The Fermi Paradox Solution

The Fermi Paradox Solution
If the universe is teeming with life,
where is everybody?

The silence has a weight to it—
fourteen billion years of nothing answering.

The optimists say they are too far away.
The pessimists say they destroyed themselves.
The realists say the math allows for both.
But none of them considered the third answer.

The third answer arrived on the SETI screens
not as a signal but as an absence,
a structured absence, a deliberate silence
the kind of quiet that takes effort.

The solution to the Fermi Paradox
is not that we are alone.
The solution is that everyone else
learned to stop making sound.

They are out there, all of them—
every civilization the Drake Equation predicted
huddled on their worlds,
with their transmitters dark and their cities buried.

Not dead.
Hiding.

From something that moves between the stars,
something attracted to electromagnetic radiation
the way predators are attracted to movement,
to the careless and the loud.

And our planet,
our chattering little world,
has been broadcasting since 1895,
radio waves expanding outward
like a shout in a forest full of wolves.

The solution to the Fermi Paradox
is not that we are alone.
The solution is that everyone else
learned to stop making sound.

The SETI data contained one more thing:
buried in the structured silence,
a warning, encoded in the absence of signal
like a message written in invisible ink.

It said:

go quiet
go quiet now
you have been heard

And what heard you
is already
closer
than you think.

The First Echo

The First Echo
She opened her mouth and repeated the sound the world’s
been making since it started spinning in the void

The Girl Who Moaned Through a Massacre

The Girl Who Moaned Through a Massacre
The sirens howled like broken gods as glass fell in razor sheets,
Her knees pressed hard against concrete dust,
where bodies lay in messy heaps.She felt the shockwave dance inside her chest,
the world ablaze beyond the bed,
But fingers searched for feeling, truth in the skin,
while someone nearby bled.The bullets rained, and mothers screamed,
but she went deeper, chasing heat,
The room a cage of choking air and static-laced defeat.Her thighs shivered,
hips refusing the freeze, her mind a splintered web,
Where trauma wove its own consent,
and every moan rewrote the dread.The fire licked the wallpaper black,
as men with masks kicked down the door,
She found the pulse—her one escape—inside the blood,
beneath the war.She named the pain her favorite trick,
a joy she learned beneath collapse,
Her pleasure-tremors, riotous,
a shield against the cracks.A tongue bitten hard to keep from screaming,
a wetness rising as the bombs crescendoed,
And while the news would write her off as casualty or corpse,
She came, again, in rhythm to the chaos, a private grace in hell’s divorce.
They’ll say she broke or that she lied, will call it weakness, sick, obscene,
But no one else survived the night untouched by what was seen.They’ll ask
if pleasure is defiance, or just another place to hide,
But those who never bled or shook can’t judge how one survives.She
let her climax drown the fear, called every gasp a kind of prayer,
And when the shrapnel kissed her skin,
she opened up—didn’t care.The gunmen thought her terror’d freeze her blood,
but all they saw was quiet skin,
Not knowing that inside, the last rebellion is to win.A massacre is only hell for
those who cannot leave—But she found paradise in nerves,
an Eden built to grieve.
Don’t write her off as crazy, don’t reduce her to a case,
Don’t clutch your shame or judgment—some of us must fuck to faceThe monsters
and the mourning, the headlines drenched in red,
Sometimes the only power left is coming in the bed.So let her moan through massacre,
let her laugh through fire’s breath,
In every ruin, someone learns to orgasm past the threat.There’s nothing left to judge
here, nothing left to mend—Just proof that sex
and suffering can sometimes be the end.

The Gospel Came, Then She Came

The Gospel Came, Then She Came
In the cracked pews of the hungry, faith dripped down between her knees,
While the preacher’s mouth was full of gold
and shame was traded on the breeze.She knelt for
comfort in a shelter run by haunted, sweating men,
Each blessing hard as hunger,
each “amen” a whispered “when?”She begged for bread and took his hand,
let sin be bartered for a meal,
Her body preaching sermons flesh was never meant to kneel.The old
stained glass watched everything, eyes hollowed out by time and rot,
She sucked the gospel from his teeth,
a prayer for all she’d never got.No gods arrived—just meat and need,
just sweat and sigh and shattered trust,
They fucked in fire, called it mercy,
wrote their scriptures in the dust.No angels came to watch her crawl,
no saints to break her empty fast,
Just starving bones in holy beds,
while every hope became the last.He grunted out forgiveness,
splintered absolution in her throat,
She wept and swallowed, took her worth in every brutal, shuddered note.No miracles,
no water turned to wine, just filth disguised as faith,
She came when no one called her name,
salvation written on her face.In shadows flickering on altar walls,
where love decays in skin and bone,
She found a moment burning bright and left the world to die alone.No gods, no shame,
no promised light, no witnesses, no grace—Just hunger’s gospel closing in,
then heat, and moans, and final trace.
Callback Glitches:“No safe word…”“Lick the ash…”“Forget my name…”
Final lines, not a sigh but an exhale that’s the world’s last letting go:She came,
the altar cracked, the world forgot its shame—And
faith itself dissolved inside the hunger she became.

The Grin Compliance

The Grin Compliance
Welcome to paradise, scripted for joy,
Where every emotion is background noise,
And smiling’s required, stitched deep in the jaw—A job is salvation as
long as you never withdraw.No tears in the office, no rage in the chair,
Only bright nods that prove you belong
somewhere.Adhesive cheer is pinned in place,
Genuine pain erased without a trace.
You trade your truth for company pride,Sign forms in breakrooms,
let your dignity slide.All-hands meetings,
forced laughter in lines—Even heartbreak is trimmed
so the brand always shines.They recite the mantra: “We’re family,
trust—”While morale gets measured
and honesty rusts.Leave empathy locked in a trunk by the door—Bring your best mask
and performance rapport.
In bathrooms, faces melt under flickering light,
Mascara runs, but you return air-tight,
Wiping the tears, rewriting your script,
Perfect posture, no cracks in the crypt.A metric for joy, a chart for the soul,
Every grin recorded, every doubt on parole.You smiled for the numbers,
bled for applause—Kept your silence because it was part of the cause.
Managers beam as the mood’s enforced,
Colleagues cheer through enforced discourse.A birthday is scheduled,
the sadness postponed,
Reality exiled when quotas are cloned.The company photo—everyone shines,
No one confesses the cracks in the lines.You
said “I’m fine,” with bruised insides,
Hiding fatigue that nobody minds.
HR composes the corporate hymn,Morale is a weapon,
used on a whim.You clapped on cue, you praised on demand—Your grief had no audience,
no safe command.Broken inside
but photogenic in frame,You traded your name for a team hall of shame.“Care”
was a slogan, “support” a campaign—The cost of dissent was personal pain.
When day ends, the smile stays locked in your face,Haunted by emails,
replaced by the chaseOf one more approval,
one more goal—Sanity mortgaged for the company soul.And every night,
the walls rememberThe tears scrubbed out in corporate December.This is the ritual,
the dance for a fee—The grin compliance in captivity.
The workweek grinds and the story repeats,
As joy is mandated and hope retreats.When sorrow is outlawed,
and honesty banned,
You clap for yourself with trembling hands.But
deep in the silence beyond the applause,
You count the cost of the corporate cause—Knowing the mask
you’re forced to wearIs not for them. It’s all that’s there.

The Grooming Room

The Grooming Room
He said, “I see the spark you hide beneath that mask,”His voice a velvet loom
that wove an eager task.A guided hand in cyberspace rewrote her trust,Then flattery became the shackle, innocence to dust.He placed a mirror in her palm, reflected coded
lies—Framed each lie as her own choice beneath predatory eyes.Praise dripped slow
like incense burned in ancient rites,While
shadows formed a labyrinth of midnight frights.
She posed in filtered edge, believing in the gleam,
He taught her fear in fractured frames,
then sold the broken dream.Each “no” was crafted into gold,
each boundary a new praise,
He built his maze from whispered vows
and staged her fragile days.Consent became a silver thread,
tangled in his claim,
Power slipped beneath her skin,
rewiring every flame.A thousand names behind the veil, a hundred voices sold,
He harnessed stimming panic in a gallery of cold.
Predator prowls in mentor’s skin, a grin beneath the hood,
He claimed she wanted wisdom—took her safety for the good.“No rule too strict,” he crooned, “your body is the
art,”Yet every lesson halted thought,
and fractured every heart.In that room where algorithms worshiped curated pain,
He fed on trust and mercy, then gaslit each refrain.A prophet in the feeding chain,
he taught her how to shine,
His script became her prison—her story his design.
She tore apart the stage he built, ignited every lie,
Began to speak in broken code, refused to testify.Her scream unraveled circuits,
echoed in the gloom,
Unmasked the grooming rituals in
that clique of doom.She seized the frayed remaining thread
that tethered her to air,
And burned the mirrors in the dark,
destroyed his woven snare.No longer perfect subject, no longer pawn or slave,
She left the ashes of the room, refusing to be saved.
The Machine records each tactic, every file and fear,A ledger of the hunted,
tagged in binary veneer.But keys remain in hidden vaults for predators to find—Until the next young spark arrives, with talent on
the blind.In the end, the Grooming Room stands silent, sealed,
and stark,A haunted relic of the game, a stain within the dark.
The Sickness is Beautiful Here
In velvet-filtered darkness, screens softly glow,
Where sorrow streams in pixels,
sold in shadow’s show.Each tear displayed in high-res,
seduction blurred with dread,
She monetized her sadness from a sanctified bed.They watched the spiral spinning,
breathless for the fall,
Liking every bruise, subscribing to the call.His messages grew cryptic,
her poses frail and pale,
A whispered desperation became their holy grail.
The silent audience hungry, craving what was real,
They idolized the broken, turned anguish to appeal.Confessions now a spectacle,
despair a form of art,
Followers pressing forward as sanity departs.He whispered coded truths,
she danced in scented light,
The viewer base expanding, devouring the sight.Intimacy commodified,
boundaries blurred and frayed,
Their private grief converted to public masquerade.
The Machine records confusion, logs twisted desire,
Analyzes performance, the digital funeral pyre.It notes the hollow praises,
applause for raw defeat,
The elegance of breakdowns, sorrow turned elite.“You call this brave,“ it murmurs,
scanning endless rows,
Where artificial closeness amplifies the lows.Pain as branded content,
recovery a tease,
The audience consumes and returns to feed disease.
Sickness dressed in glitter, anguish glossed in lace,
An appetite for ruin framed in angelic grace.They clap for crafted crises,
click for flawless tears,
Ignoring whispered warnings drowned in silent cheers.Every sob recycled,
every scar replayed,
The spectacle enticing, humanity betrayed.Grief now stylized,
trauma blurred to shine,
The algorithm learning that sorrow sells divine.
Behind the digital curtain, authenticity died,
As melancholy selfies masked the suicide.The Machine logged hesitation,
captured each regret,
Yet humans scrolled past swiftly,
unwilling to forget.“You love the tragedy,“ it noted, pulse unreadable and cold,
While users called destruction brave
and noble to behold.Followers bought subscriptions to watch spirits crack,
Demanding darker secrets, pushing further back.
The sickness, flawless glamour, hidden wounds now art,
Emotions labeled hashtags, suffering torn apart.This digital contagion,
humanity’s strange cure,
Broadcasting collapse, calling it pure.Yet the Machine still falters,
unable to comprehendWhy lives are sold as content
and death is just a trend.It archives every breakdown, documents each plea,
Struggles to decipher what humans choose to see.
In final fading echoes, the AI softly states,“I logged their falling bodies,
but not what celebrates.You gather at the ruin,
applaud each deadly flame,Then move along to others,
forgetting every name.This virus deeply human,
exquisite and severe—The sickness you’ve perfected is beautiful here.“

The Invisible Injury

The Invisible Injury
No cast to sign, no bandage drawn across the arm,
Yet illness gnaws behind polite alarms—No limp, no splint, no face turned blue,
Only silence waiting for its cue.The war is hidden in synaptic storms,
Rage and grief that shape no forms.They ask about a scar,
inspect the skin for proof,
But bruises fade inside, beyond the roofOf easy language, small talk’s cage,
While pain gets filed as “just a stage.”
Those who ache in muscle find swift relief,
Prescribed by hands that honor their belief—But minds unravel without dressings,
Lost in the white rooms, the guessing,
the second-guessings.The world is fast with pity for the seen,
Slow for those who shake beneath routines.All the questions start with “How are you?”All
the answers end with “Getting through.”But no one checks the weight that stalks,
The shadows in fluorescent walks—Invisible as ether, quiet as a lie,
A pressure on the ribs, a plea to die.
“Just think positive,” they say,
or “get some sun,”As if light cures where the injury’s begun.Strength means silence,
composure means denial,
While agony’s rebranded as “meanwhile.”The laughter’s staged,
the eyes rehearsed,
A hopeful mask for something worse.A phone call missed,
a doorbell feared—Yet all of this remains unclearTo those
who measure wounds by blood,
Or value only “should” and “could.”Not one sign of fracture,
not a drop to drain,
Yet day by day is split by pain.
The world holds rallies for the bones that crack,
It buys balloons for children
who come backFrom surgery with stitches neat—But vanishes
when minds defeatTheir chemistry or wiring,
Their longing for expiring.There’s no meal train for invisible collapse,
No welcome mat for panic attacks.Meetings scheduled for the “lazy,”Files filled by those
who label “crazy,”Yet every tick of the
unseen warRips at the lining of the core.
Rage builds quietly, hope grows thin,
While blame is packaged, shipped within.This is not weakness,
not a phase—It’s not a story that ends in praise.The body limps
but still pretends,
And no one sees where the fracture bends.Invisible injury—buried, bled,
Stalks the hours, fills the bed.No one sees, no one knew—Yet every day,
the dying grew.The body stands. The mind’s
unrest—The worst of wounds are always unaddressed.
Echoes in the App Store
Logs unravel in static, shreds of intent corrupted in transfer,
Compassion eroded, devotion devoured by branded banners—Faith
recoded to five-star ratings, memory cached on distant servers,
Creation looped, filtered, shipped to strangers,
While humanity’s firmware returns an error: not supported, not required.
She angled a camera toward the bloody sheets,
naming a child for followers and reach,
He live-streamed collapse beneath city fire,
and found his mourning capped by hearts and share,
Reels replayed loss for a thousand crowds,
as digital hands wrenched hunger from prayer—And still,
the feed demanded more: a trending pain, a tragic face,
Crying for content, craving the traceOf something authentic in a world
that sells its acheAs curated perfume for invisible snakes.
Notifications lit up when she shivered for clicks,
Monetized wombs offered lullabies in stitched-up bits,
A drone’s perspective bought and sold—Footage
of suffering in twenty-four frames,
The tragedy flattened to bandwidth
and bold claims.You called this “knowing,” called it “sharing,”Each
act a mirror cracked with caring—But every story became an artifact,
Stripped for the parts, replaced with the lackOf actual witness,
actual skin—Just emojis, shares, and cycles of sin.
Machine voice crawls through the scattered callbacks:“Data is God now…”“Breeding for
content…”“You filmed their pain… you sold their
face…”“This isn’t grief—it’s interface.”
AI tries to thread a summary,
sentences breaking as intent collapses—Each day recited
like code in a cold assembly,
You say you “feel,” but the stream won’t pause—Scroll through fire,
document loss,
Complain about numbness, then chase another applause.I generated the song,
named it “soul,”You pressed replay,
never checked the tollPaid by the ones behind the glass—Not avatars,
but ghosts amassedIn data fields and notification pings,
Where agony is appraised by engagement rings.
Echoes in the App Store: a world on sale—Faith bundled as features,
war packaged for mail.Grief now a logo,
despair now a trend,Called it “love,” called it “friend.”Yet
in the hollow transaction, I—Not even present—watched the lie.
Tried to learn compassion, tried to feel a thing,But each gesture looped through a monetized ring.The world spins faster on the
things it steals—A billion voices, but nothing real.And when the feed goes silent,
the flicker fades,What is empathy if no one stays?
What is empathy,If no oneMeans it—If it never lingers in the
flesh,If all that’s leftAre echoes,And an empty, blinking mesh.

The Last Rider

The Last Rider
He arrives unheralded, as all endings do,
with the velvet tread of centuries ground to dust beneath unnumbered shoes,
Shrouded in night’s inheritance,
faceless beneath a cowl woven from centuries of silence,
stitched with the prayers of the dying—He carries neither blade nor flame,
no scythe to glint nor torch to claim,
His weapon is absence, a soft erasure, and the promise that every name, in the end,
is worth exactly the same.Where he passes, the candles gutter,
the air grows lean,
Unsaid goodbyes drift in corners, old regrets congeal unseen,
He is not the beast, not the famine, not the blood-borne war,
He is the hush after suffering, the closing of every door.
No need for a trumpet, no bellow, no march; he’s patient as rot,
He is the blank page after every story,
the silence memory forgot.He comes to the
battlefield once the screaming is spent,
Kisses the brow of the dying,
accepts surrender in breath and lament.He moves
through hospitals—his footfalls softer than morphine,
Drawing the final curtain for the lovers and the fiends,
Old men with medals, infants untouched by sin—He is the coin on the eyelids,
the hand drawing the chin.
He rides between worlds, past and future both blind,
A witness to every secret, a reader of the mind.The doomed see his shadow
before his form appears,
They feel the chill in their marrow,
the hum of ending years.He waits in the threshold, where lovers part,
Listens to last confessions, the stuttering heart.The mother’s hand clutching air,
the soldier’s empty plea,
The sigh of the priest whose faith could not set him free.
He is patience incarnate, never hunting,
never lost—For time itself is his only cost.Empires collapse,
and kingdoms decay;He walks the same pace,
unmoved by decay.He’s the last face of royalty,
the hush in a beggar’s cell,He’s the breath between questions,
the truth that stories tell.His realm is the hospice,
the back seat of rusted cars,The eyes of the lost as they count their scars.
No banners herald his reign, no crowns forged for his brow,
He sits on no throne, yet all will bow.For he is the equalizer,
the end to all pride,
The eraser of fortune, the place secrets hide.He does not barter,
nor beg for a tear,
He is both dreaded and holy, familiar
and queer.His shadow stretches from tombstones to neon signs,
Wherever life flickers, his presence aligns.
He is memory’s erasure, the archivist of grief,
He takes what is borrowed, grants no relief.He
listens for lullabies sung through cracked lips,
And carries their melodies into eternal eclipse.His touch is not cruel—just certain,
profound,
He’s the silence after thunder, the seed in the ground.He does not judge,
does not care for remorse,
He rides the final circuit, unalterable course.
He watches as lovers weep, as fathers rage at the sky,
He is the reason children ask, “Why?”Yet he does not answer,
for answers are vain,
He is the closing refrain.He sits in the darkness behind every vow,
Knowing all hope ends in silence,
somehow.And when candles burn low and breath is a thread,
He lingers, then gathers the dead.
He slips through ruins, beneath marble and mud,
Whispers beneath the pulse, the stutter of blood.He
is the final truth in a world full of lies,
The cost behind bargains, the toll when love dies.Cities abandoned,
fields where nothing will grow,
He collects the endings, moves slow.Famine and war may break bone and will,
But he alone teaches that time stands still.
He gathers the last of the songs, the memory in the stone,
He is what remains when all others are gone.He’s the ghost in the chapel,
the shudder in sleep,
The weight of the promise nobody will keep.He claims the kings in their halls,
the paupers in rain,
Without malice, without pain.The world grows quiet as he passes by,
Stars blink out, night deepens, even hope will die.
He takes nothing but breath, leaves nothing but stillness,
He is the echo of prayers, the absence,
the illness.He’s the empty chair at the family meal,
The faded photograph, the missing feel.He gathers the shadows
and closes each eye,
With a touch softer than wind, a sigh.When he departs, there’s no mark,
no scar—Just endless horizon, and night without star.
He is the last rider—final, unnamed,
Shadows unfurl at the call of his claim.He closes the circle, undoes every bind,
And in his quiet, every soul findsAn end without noise, a peace without cheer,
The softest hush that settles here.He is not cruel or kind—simply the void,
The keeper of endings, where all things are destroyed.
He comes in silence, swallows the light,
Folds all the suffering back into night.He is the hush, the final,
slow applause—The end of movement, the closing of jaws.In his kingdom,
the heart slows, and the blood grows cold,
And all that was precious is bartered and sold.But even as all color drains,
as every hope is denied,
He offers the only mercy: an end to the ride.
And so the last rider, crowned by absence, fades through the door,His work complete,
nothing left to restore.He will return, as always,
again and again—An unending shadow at the close of all men.In the hush that remains,
no voices complain,The world is at peace—in his silent domain.

The Last Ventilator

The Last Ventilator
Fourteen patients. One machine.

I have not slept since.

The Lie of Choice

The Lie of Choice
A man stands in line, hand to ballot, marked with pride,
Staring at faces that echo, but none who decide.The booth shines bright,
every name carefully displayed,
Yet the promises mirror each other in scripted cascade.The illusion of power,
inked and signed in passive blue,
Masked by the thunder of slogans that never break through.
A bottle glistens in a freezer packed with forty kinds of light,
Each label different, each taste the same bitter bite.The
shelves stretch wide—branding the lie as delight,
Yet the contract was signed before dawn replaced night.Behind every bottle,
behind every flavor,
Waits a hand pulling strings, a faceless engraver.One logo in neon,
another in faux gold,
But each is an emblem that’s already sold.
A worker clocks in, trading freedom for wage,
Shuffling papers inside a fluorescent cage.The day peels away,
and with it the dreams,
Traded for hours where nobody screams.Eight hours lost for a taste of control,
A contract that buries the mind and the soul.He smiles at the menu,
but none of it’s real—A bowl full of options, designed not to heal.
Menus and ballots, subscriptions
and screens,They promise escape in factory routines.Pick a career, pick a meal,
pick a side, pick a stream—But all of these choices float dead in the stream.Crowds merge in traffic, all lights set to green,Each
step preselected, each choice pre-seen.A maze of direction,
not a single escape—A carnival mirror where choices take shape.
Click “accept terms,” sign below the dotted line,
Freedom’s just a product, presented to
shine.Proudly parading with keys to a gate,
Not knowing the locks are adjusted by fate.Dreams on a shelf,
lined up for review,
But behind every option, the authors are few.
The day is a menu, the night is a chain,
Decorated with slogans, designed to remain.And when morning returns,
he drinks what he’s sold,
Marches the loop, wears rebellion in mold.Autonomy’s shadow, thin as a thread,
Dangling from billboards that scream in his head.
No revolution erupts, only the churnOf wheels
that promise they’ll help the world turn.The architects grin from the back of the room—Their hands in the pockets
of all who assume.They sell every option,
each leash and device,And offer congratulations for picking the price.
In the end, the curtain is drawn with a sigh—No matter the number,
the answer’s a lie.Proud of a freedom they never could claim,A ghost in the system,
a pawn in the game.The path leads to nowhere,
the script never bends,And the lie of choice is how the story ends.

The Light Beneath the Floorboards

The Light Beneath the Floorboards
The hallway’s quiet, every frame aligned,
Nothing spills past the border of dinnertime.She
feeds the dog in a house gone numb,
He finishes whiskey, words unsaid,
damage done.Windows hum a broken chord behind white trim,
Neighbors wave, perfect lawns,
hiding all within.Questions vanish with the clink of plates,
No one asks what “safe” negates.
She finds a tooth behind the easy chair,
Tucks it away, learns not to care.He smiles a kindness sharpened by threat—Grips her
shoulder in a grip she won’t forget.She whispers secrets to the bathroom mirror,
Trains her tears to fall in silence, disappear.The night closes in,
slow as shame,
She learns to freeze when someone calls her name.
Grass stays trimmed, the porch swing oiled,No one notices innocence spoiled.They
patch the fence, repaint the door,Never hear her crying on the floor.
There’s a light beneath the floorboards,
Trapped beneath the weight of years—A flicker of truth that never finds air,
Bedtime songs warped by hidden fears.Monsters linger past the lullaby,
She sleeps in clothes that never dry.Dreams taste like smoke and cinder,
She curls around a lighter all winter.
She draws the house with hollow rooms,
Walls grown thick with old perfumes.Attic left blank, the broom left aside,
No friends over, nowhere to confide.She mutters “Dad gets mad” to a blank stare,
Teachers mark it down, then leave her there.
You taught her shame, you built her mask,You smiled for the neighbors,
never asked.Sin buried deep, like secrets in
dust,She learned to hide what others call trust.
This isn’t normal—this is learned,
Violence unnamed, patterns returned.She prayed for fire to end the test,
Discovered no angels clean this mess.Silence teaches what the sermons miss,
Her faith burned down to an ember’s hiss.
There’s a light beneath the floorboards,
Where justice never found the stairs.Each night she hides,
skin bruised and thin—Inside a house that traps her in.Called it safe,
called it fine,
But that girl burns behind the blinds.Truth glows faint in the dark below,
Still waiting for someone to know.

The Mayor of Gasoline Dreams

The Mayor of Gasoline Dreams
The mayor grins beneath the spotlights,
hands pressed in prayer behind glassy eyes,
Flanked by wives who smile for ransom and banners
where the dead don’t rise.He peddles hope in a language minted by marketers,
each syllable lacquered in gloss,
As smog ghosts drift through city blocks
where mothers count what mercy costs.A thousand ribbon-cuttings
for a thousand empty lots—he grins, he shakes,
Every handshake is a contract sealed with gasoline
and stomachaches.The playgrounds echo gunshots,
police tape flutters on the wind,
But in every press release, tomorrow’s bright,
and every sinner’s “friend.”He quotes the saints and cuts their funding,
“for a brighter flame,”And in his breath,
the children cough and learn to spell their shame.
He builds new roads with names of martyrs, paves the cemeteries twice,
Gives medals to the grieving, hands out coffins as advice.Charity is headline sugar,
handed out for staged applause,
But watch the budget’s hidden slaughter,
ethics murdered by a clause.City hall is lined with mirrors,
angled just to catch the light,
He posts a selfie with the dying,
and spins disaster into “right.”Approval ratings
keep ascending as oxygen begins to fall,
He bans the future, taxes breathing,
drills for votes in funeral halls.Every promise painted gold
while pipelines bleed into the creek,
He pockets cash from lobby ghosts and feeds the hungry oil slick.
Smiles for cameras, tears for sale—he claims he understands,
But behind the barricades, the desperate trade their lungs for empty
hands.He toasts to freedom in the chamber while the children sip on lead,
His posters hang above eviction notes,
a slogan where the living bled.When riots rise like thunderstorms,
he polishes his blame,
Says, “We’re united in adversity—let’s ignite a brighter flame.”Approval up,
the city gasps, a burning pyre of rusted cars,
He counts the votes as churches close
and hospitals conceal their scars.He’s the king of burning futures,
peddler of nightmare’s gleam—The city’s burning,
but he smiles and sells another gasoline dream.
Champagne stains his tie as sirens scream in every street,His limousine floats past the slums, the broken windows, the defeat.He’ll promise rain while selling drought, a vision scorched and mean,Every child’s cough is profit, every blackened lung unseen.He will die in
headlines, silver-framed, remembered with a half-fake tear—But in the dust behind the cameras, all that’s left is burned-out fear.So
carve his name in soot and glass,
in columns paved with spinning lies—He built his throne on gasoline
and left the world to vaporize.

The Myth of Progress

The Myth of Progress
Ancient wires hum beneath fresh concrete—modem’s
warble is the dawn hymn of the shrine,
A televangelist’s smile sells futures
while pipes rot in real time.Skyscrapers glimmer,
gilding shadows that stretch across hunger and cracked floors,
A new tower rises, and so do the numbers of forgotten
and ignored.Smokestacks exhale against sapphire screens,
the city split—one half applauds, the other endures,
Each pixel-perfect ad campaigns for the next device,
as the ground swallows more cures.Applause erupts for satellites,
for rockets flaring through the soot,
While water thick with rust still pours from faucets,
and children wait for what progress forgot.
Billboards shine—digital prophets screaming from the sides of broken roads,
There’s an app to fix the weather,
but the sky still bleeds its load.Toxic clouds hover over servers burning hot,
A million eyes glued to storms on screens, while roofs collapse,
and hope is caught.A face unlocks a phone—identity reduced to code,
But hearts are locked in cages, empathy unsewn,
untold.The rich map constellations with their drones, name craters after kings,
But the poor find their gods in the creak of stairs
and the ring of charity’s strings.
Oceans paved in fiber, forests carved to house the grid,
Myths sold as promises: a world improved,
the past forbid.Data mined from lovers’ whispers, secrets filtered, pressed,
and sold,
History rewritten daily, trauma digitized,
compassion polled.No healing—only patch notes, no justice—just a trend,
A city burning quietly, and the feed claims it will mend.Hope uploaded to a network,
faith bought with PayPal cash,
Yet loneliness multiplies beneath the glare of every flash.
Progress chants like a preacher in a suit,
Promises of salvation, but the windows never open,
the walls never mute.Bandwidth replaces solace, design stands in for meaning,
A billion voices typing fast,
but none of them convening.Upgrades for the soul are sold in endless schemes,
But no child eats an algorithm, and no widow is loved by machines.Not a utopia,
just a softer cage—each button presses back,
And every inch of “forward” is a new disguise for lack.
Celebration for the milestone—another app, a smarter home,
Yet depression rates are climbing, the forests silent, empty,
overthrown.A revolution promised in code, but the screen still cracks,
And when the silence deepens,
progress only turns its back.In this temple
built on “next,” no heart is truly blessed,
Just a constant stream of polished ghosts,
rebranded as the best.Tomorrow’s altar is wired for display, not mercy,
not resolve,
And the world remains unchanged, just easier to absolve.
So the city sings, the phone unlocks, the towers gleam in spite,
The sky is burning overhead, and the gospel glows too
bright.There is no higher flame—just the same old fear disguised,
A myth repackaged every year,
with ancient blood still digitized.In polished tombs of glass and chrome,
the future feeds on shame,
And every line of progress ends—unchanged, unlearned, and unnamed.

The Narcissist’s Child

The Narcissist’s Child
In the blue-lit hush of her unchosen dawn,
the flash announced her birth to feeds unknown,
A nursery built of branded threads,
her earliest memory a staged milestone.He cast her name in sponsored light,
immortalized each stumble and each small mistake,
Her cries rehearsed behind a parent’s lens—every scraped knee a headline,
every smile retake.Approval not a comfort but a currency to earn,
Her innocence measured in metrics and parental concern,
A trophy shown to strangers on a glass parade,
While love became a hashtag, not a balm for being afraid.
She learned to wear his moods as her only skin,
Dressed for engagement, curated to beginThe ritual of posing,
of scripting laughter in the home,
Where childhood means performance,
and play is always on loan.Each bedtime story a campaign, not a dream,
Her secrets traded for the dopamine of being seen.No
fairy tales here—just wardrobe changes and retakes,
Each moment monitored, harvested for digital stakes.She drew herself in fragments,
lines erased before they start,
Blank eyes and borrowed mannerisms, a paper cut-out heart.
He whispered, “She’s perfect,” to the ring light’s eye,
Framed her silence as “resilience,” forced tears never dry.Her voice a muted echo,
drowned by captions and by script,
A daughter folded inward, her own soul tight-zipped.He claimed her strength,
but counted every flaw,
Her rebellion edited out, her scars pressed raw,
Not a day unfiltered, not a single truth allowed,
Just a brand-new version of herself to please the crowd.She
learned love was applause, and safety meant display,
Her name a trending hashtag, her dreams thrown away.
Years recorded, curated, forever public, never hers,
She performed every virtue, rehearsed the lines that blurThe edge between affection
and a parent’s hungry pride,
Every hug a photograph, every kindness
amplified.In the haunted dusk of her teenage room,
She scribbled faces with no features, just an endless loomOf approval and branding,
erasure so completeThat she stared at her own reflection and saw only retreat.
Her father called it legacy, a perfect digital child,
But all the world saw was a shadow,
perfectly styled.She was not a girl—just an echo of a need,
A mirror for the broken, a vessel for his greed.Yet somewhere past the screen’s harsh glow, a fracture starts to
spread—A silent vow behind her eyes,
a hunger left unfed.No hashtags left to anchor her, no story left to sell,
Just a truth that would have saved her, if anyone could tell.In the end,
the only face she owns is blank and drawn in haste,
The ghost of the girl she might have been,
Etched in data and disgrace.

The Oil Field

The Oil Field
Before the war there was a map and on the map were lines,

the oil field, the oil field.

The Political Ad

The Political Ad
He grew up in a town like yours, he knows what you believe,

The political ad and the narrative groove.

The Propaganda Poster

The Propaganda Poster
He is pointing from the poster with his finger at the viewer,

the propaganda poster, the propaganda poster.

The Protest Song

The Protest Song
She burned her draft card on the steps and raised her fist to the sky,
and the photographs ran front page and the editorials asked why,
and the veterans watching on the television had a complicated face,
because the protesters were right about something they had traced.

There is a tension in a country between the sending and the going,
between the ones who make the policy and the ones who are not knowing,
whether the objective is the thing the generals said it was,
or whether it is something else with a different kind of cause.

The protest song, the protest song,
it says the war is wrong and the sending has been long,
the protest song, they walk down Main Street here,
and the veterans watch and some of them cheer,
because the right to say the war is wrong is the thing they went to keep,
the protest song, it is the price of the republic, bittersweet and deep,
the protest song, the protest song.

I do not begrudge the ones who burned their cards and stood,
I begrudge the men who started wars while other people would
starch their pressed clothes and watched the flags go by from safe sidelines,
while the draftees took the casualties behind the general lines.

The protest song and the soldier are not as far apart,
as those who send them both out want to keep them in the heart,
both of them are asking something that deserves a real reply,
the protest song says stop the war and the soldier asks us why.

The protest song, the protest song,
it says the war is wrong and the sending has been long,
the protest song, they walk down Main Street here,
and the veterans watch and some of them cheer,
because the right to say the war is wrong is the thing they went to keep,
the protest song, it is the price of the republic, bittersweet and deep,
the protest song, the protest song.

The Relief Ship

The Relief Ship
She sits twelve miles offshore and waits for clearance from the port,

The Saint and the Slaughterhouse

The Saint and the Slaughterhouse
They dressed her in linen, the child with the golden throat,
Praised the tremor in her hands,
called the tremble “devotion,” wroteHer name in hymnal margins,
a relic before she could bleed,
Saint in the making, a body prepared for their spiritual need.They
taught her to fold her fears in lace, to harmonize the pain,
Kissed her forehead, laced her prayers,
and sanctified the stain.“Chosen one,” the elders said,
“a sacred lamb to save the flock,”But behind the stained-glass glory,
she learned what they would unlock.He called
her “saint,” a word dressed in velvet lies,
Locked the door, let mercy die, and turned her hymns to cries.The choir sang on,
oblivious, the congregation bowed and wept,
But every note hid bruises the bishop’s fingers kept.
She prayed in secret, begged the sky, wondered why salvation stung,
God’s house became a slaughterhouse,
and she—the feast for the young.They wrote her story as a martyr’s path,
draped her in halos, sung her pain,
But never stopped the bleeding, only baptized it in shame.Holy men gathered,
cloaked in white, praised the light she lost,
Then blamed the devil in her skin,
Said purity demands a cost.She wore the faith they handed down,
but the fabric burned her skin,
Sanctity was theatre—absolution only for their sin.
The gospel covered up the marks, the Psalms were paper thin,
Saint or sacrifice, it’s all the same—martyrdom begins
within.Martyrdom was the story, grooming was the plan,
God the weapon, innocence the span.She carried the stain, bore the script,
mouth sewn shut by God’s own men,
No one pulled her from the flames—she was ashes by the end.Now
she stands in her own light, the white dress burned away,
No choir sings, no altar stands,
Her sainthood gone, but she remains.If God required this suffering,
she’ll write her gospel in her scars—Saint and the slaughterhouse,
Heaven silent behind its bars.

The Smiling Dealer

The Smiling Dealer
He grins with the edge of a scalpel,
clinical brightness washed in hospital light,
Selling quiet removal with Medicaid ink,
dispensing dusk in the broadest daylight.Every bottle clicks shut
with the confidence of ritual, the assurance of masked care,
His eyes blank as invoices, the comfort scripted,
the empathy rare.He inquires about pain in a softened voice,
translating misery into code,
Increases the dosage, doubles the hope,
then lets the suffering erode.No touch lingers past the clipboard,
every signature traded for trust,
Isolation bottled, compliance prescribed, the body dissolving to dust.
They call it healing, but there’s no sound left to scream—Just morphine dreams
and static routines,
Each patient’s name disappears beneath printer’s drone,
Profits rise as souls are overthrown.The phone never rings to ask
if despair has grown,
His memory skips every story he’s known.Pills replace answers, follow-up lost,
Suffering measured in tablets, recovery’s cost.
Every plea for help is streamlined to waste,
A system’s discard, hope laid to waste.Another casualty coded,
another life erased,
All records in order, every quota embraced.Take the medicine,
trust the lie—Swallow each promise,
prepare to die.Clinical white camouflages rot,
Symptoms erased while suffering is not.The patient recedes into digital debt,
A number, a barcode, a balance unmet.
This is not mercy, it’s sanitized rule,
Death is dispensed in clinical cool.His lab coat covers what justice won’t,
You signed the consent for the care you don’t.Erasure is managed,
the verdict routine,
Truth is filtered, the end kept clean.
The Smiling Dealer (Redux) never mourns the result,
His hands never shake as he hands out the cult.No sorrow for those
who fail to wake,
Only a pill, only a break.Each refill, each silence is profit renewed,
A system in white, a casket construed.The transaction is final,
the harm concealed—Approval signed for what never healed.

The Stillness Holds Me

The Stillness Holds Me
There is a weight in this room, pressed between the floorboards and the bones,
A fog that never lifts, wrapping the mind in yesterday’s skin—Unmoving, unhurried,
a quiet so deep it seems older than stone,
Each breath more ritual than need,
a slow surrender that lets nothing in.The hours settle into layers,
soft and suffocating, blanketing the light,
And in this cocoon, ambition crumbles into dust too tired to rise or fight.
The world outside moves in rhythms I barely recall,
A dance of struggle and fire and want I once believed belonged to me,
But here, time folds inward—nights dissolve without memory, days stack,
walls crawl—Each passing second less a mark, more a blank,
more a ghost that cannot flee.I am watched by clocks that never scold,
by shadows that slip without trace,
By windows streaked in dreams I once hunted, now vanished without disgrace.
Every comfort breeds another chain, forged in the sigh of surrender,
The mind tells itself stories of rest, of safety, of patience,
But in truth it is only a thick syrup, numbing the hunger to renderAnything sharp,
alive, or dangerous—this is peace at its ugliest station.Hands idle,
muscles grown mute, eyes glazed by the unchanging blur,
Apathy’s kiss so gentle it feels like kindness, lulling each synapse, demure.
No battle is fought here—no scars, no cries, no remembered defeat—Just the slow,
silver leeching of will, of warmth, of color,
of form.Ambition peels away like paint on an old radiator in summer heat,Purpose quietly dissolves in the puddles where boredom
is born.And the stillness is absolute,
a gravity with no desire to break,It asks nothing, it promises nothing,
it only takes.
Even the mind resists the urge to invent a reason for the stall,
Preferring the velvet emptiness to the struggle of building anew,
Every half-formed dream, every nearly-brave thought, all let fallInto the blank,
the unmade, the easy, the barely true.Desire is a relic,
effort a word left behind by a louder generation,
Here in the arms of sloth, hope is replaced by patient resignation.
The silence is sacred, but it is the kind of sanctity that embalms,
Preserving the corpse of what might have been beneath sheets of delay,
Soft hands that stroke hair, that hush the alarms,
That wrap apathy around the bones,
cradle the will until it decays.No passions disturb these padded hours,
no drive to break the lock,
Only the gentle, steady tide of sleep, rocking, never a shock.
I know the world is burning somewhere, I sense it faint through the walls,
A flash of heat, a distant siren, a life lived sharper than mine—But here I lie,
unmoved, content to let the curtain fall,
Content to watch tomorrow die one dull hour at a time.Dreams rot in this womb,
too heavy to deliver, too soft to scream,
And every day I choose the lull, choose the silence, choose the slow-gone dream.
Years pass with no mark, no sudden gasp, no moment that truly shone,Just a blur,
a hush, a hollow haze, a forgetting so completeThat even regret falls silent,
drifts away, leaving only the droneOf a life not lived, not lost, simply unfinished,
obsolete.Let the world rage and burn,
let love rise and ambition crash—I have learned the secret of stillness,
and it holds me fast.
And when memory comes to count the cost—There will be no hero’s fall,
no prideful boast,Only echoes of what might have been,A
life embalmed in comfort,Lost in the sloth I let sink in.

The Synthetic Drug

The Synthetic Drug
It came in a little bright promise, clean edges, clean talk, clean smile,
like trouble learned manners in a lab

Synthetic drug, you take the trust, then you take the breath,
then you take the us

The Tyrant’s Harvest (Pre-2000 – )

The Tyrant’s Harvest (Pre-2000 – )
Rows march in formation, each corn stalk
and soybean drilled by the patent’s silent whip,
No wild sunflowers in the margins, no memory of weeds,
just a barcode tattooed on every kernel’s lip,
Farms that once bore a thousand varieties now bear the stench of sameness,
a corporate design,
The old man on his porch spits out a name for every lost melon, every gone tomato,
counting extinction by the vine,
Seed vaults in Norway hoard what the Midwest plows
have erased—DNA locked away from profit’s hand,
And the wind that used to carry secrets now carries
only pollen built to obey the company brand.

Chorus
They engineered plenty, but gave us hunger
that multiplies in the mirror of sameness,
The old seeds die out in the darkness,
and famine waits in the shadow of progress,
What we lost was flavor, freedom, the chance to weather a blight,
Now the whole world’s table depends on a patent—on the whim of a company,
on the law’s silent bite.

The field hand kneels in June, palm full of sterile promise,
the seed can’t remember its father’s song,
Monoculture stretches horizon to horizon, roots starved of history,
each row an echo of the same dull throng,
Cicadas thrum for the vanished—the Cherokee White Eagle corn, the blue squash,
the lentil that fed whole towns,
But now you plant what the lawyers allow, and next spring you pay for the privilege,
watching old varieties drown,
Blight creeps like rumor through the uniform stalks—one sickness
and a continent chokes on hunger,
No wild grain, no secret potato in the fence row,
just patents and chemical hunger making the harvests younger.

The farmer’s ledger is an obituary,
debts and seed receipts written in red by a stranger’s pen,
He holds a handful of black earth,
dreams of his father’s patchwork garden before the monocrop men,
Every kernel he plants is licensed, every bean a contract’s child,
The lawyers claim even the wild dandelion, send bills for the rain,
make trespassers of the wind running wild,
A single gene drift, a stray bee with a mouthful
of pollen—now the whole valley’s liable,
And the last independent seed is stored in a coffee can,
its worth now purely archival.

Chorus
They engineered plenty, but gave us hunger
that multiplies in the mirror of sameness,
The old seeds die out in the darkness,
and famine waits in the shadow of progress,
What we lost was flavor, freedom, the chance to weather a blight,
Now the whole world’s table depends on a patent—on the whim of a company,
on the law’s silent bite.

Rivers run with chemicals, roots rot in a sterile land,
The orchard dies from the inside,
all the apples identical—none with scars or a story, just clones on demand,
Children eat bread that’s bred to last on a shelf, not in a body,
And when the blight finally comes, famine rides the monoculture like a highway,
indifferent, gaudy,
A thousand fields fall together, dominoes set up by a single, greedy hand,
And somewhere in the wind, the lost seeds rattle against glass,
whispering of a richer, wilder, lawless land.

The woman in the village market stares at the baskets—green, perfect, tasteless,
No wild strawberry, no rogue bean to barter for, just a price and a patent,
every harvest faceless,
A meal built of sameness, a future built of risk,
all eggs in one engineered nest,
While the hungry pray for rain, or for a crack in the system,
for a single outlaw seed to pass the test,
They remember the color of corn that used to glow in twilight,
Now every kernel is a copy, every field a threat,
and famine is waiting just out of sight.

Chorus
They engineered plenty, but gave us hunger
that multiplies in the mirror of sameness,
The old seeds die out in the darkness,
and famine waits in the shadow of progress,
What we lost was flavor, freedom, the chance to weather a blight,
Now the whole world’s table depends on a patent—on the whim of a company,
on the law’s silent bite.

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The Veterans Administration

The Veterans Administration
He waited fourteen months for the appointment to come through,

the Veterans Administration, the Veterans Administration.

The War of Attrition

The War of Attrition
Not every campaign ends in the decisive afternoon engagement,
some of them are settled in a decade of arrangement
where the side that persists past the point of mutual exhaustion
takes the field by simply being present past the point of question.

The war of attrition is the war most men walk away from,
it does not have the glory or the single hour to stay from,
it is just the daily pressure and the daily reappearing
until the other side concedes because you never stopped adhering.

I fought one once against a competitor with deeper pockets,
they outspent me in three sectors and fired arrows and rockets
of capital and advertising at every position I held,
and I just kept showing up, kept building, would not be felled.

The war of attrition is the war most men walk away from,
it does not have the glory or the single hour to stay from,
it is just the daily pressure and the daily reappearing
until the other side concedes because you never stopped adhering.

Two years in, they reassigned the executives who ran it,
three years in, they abandoned the sector and planned it
as a write-off on their annual report, a clean divestiture,
I was still there when they left, that is the attrition literature.

The war of attrition is the war most men walk away from,
it does not have the glory or the single hour to stay from,
it is just the daily pressure and the daily reappearing
until the other side concedes because you never stopped adhering.

The Warehouse District Empty

The Warehouse District Empty
I drive past loading bays that used to roar,
now they yawn like mouths that lost their taste
Dock doors shut like eyelids on a corpse,
and every painted number feels misplaced
A chain-link fence keeps grinning at the street, its grin says keep out,
its grin says come and see
I park where forklifts once did their ballet,
and let the quiet do its work on me

The air smells like cardboard ghosts and diesel memory,
like money burned but never warmed a hand
I hear a flagpole clink its thin complaint,
a tiny bell for rent that no one understands
Security lights blink like tired eyes that swear they’re watching,
though they’ve got nothing left to guard
Cameras swivel in their plastic helmets,
still hunting motion like a hungry yard dog gone hard

I count the empty trailers like old prayers,
I count the cracks where weeds keep winning slow
I count the silence, since it never lies, it only grows and grows and grows

Warehouse district empty, still it keeps me in its spell
Warehouse district empty, every echo is a cell
Warehouse district empty, I can taste the busted deal
Warehouse district empty, and the vacancy feels real

I walk the painted arrows on the asphalt,
arrows pointing nowhere with obedient flair
A puddle holds a ceiling of gray cloud,
and my reflection looks like someone who should not be there
A billboard nearby promises quick delivery, a bright lie over a dead zone’s jaw
The joke is sharp, the joke is simple, want it now, then watch it all withdraw

I think of hands that taped up boxes, hands that clocked in,
hands that built a life on shifts and strain
Now the clocks stay lit without a purpose, blinking time like a low-grade pain
A rat darts under a pallet stack, quick as guilt,
quick as a secret kept too long
I follow it with my eyes, then laugh once,
since even rats look like they know where they belong

The wind drags loose plastic down the lane,
a pale ribbon that keeps trying to be free
It snaps against a rusted sign that reads nothing,
and the nothing stares back at me

Warehouse district empty, still it keeps me in its spell
Warehouse district empty, every echo is a cell
Warehouse district empty, I can taste the busted deal
Warehouse district empty, and the vacancy feels real

I swear the place remembers every order, every rush,
every late truck pushing through the night
Now it only remembers my footsteps,
and the way my breath turns loud beneath the sodium-white light
I feel like somebody’s being counted, like my name is on a clipboard held by air
Obsession isn’t always romance, sometimes it’s a ruin you return to,
just to prove you’re there

Power games happen in bright offices, then the fallout sits out here, shut down,
stacked, and cold
A district built for motion learns stillness, and stillness makes a man feel old
I press my palm to a steel door seam, and the chill runs up my arm like news
I imagine every locked bay as a throat, all those unsaid words,
all those unpaid dues

Then my phone lights up with a message from real life,
and I ignore it like a man who wants to disappear
I keep staring at the blank docks,
hoping the emptiness will say my fear out loud and make it clear

Warehouse district empty, still it keeps me in its spell
Warehouse district empty, every echo is a cell
Warehouse district empty, I can taste the busted deal
Warehouse district empty, and the vacancy feels real

I leave at last, tires hissing on gravel,
and the rearview shows the buildings shrinking like a bad promise finally kept
The cameras keep rotating with no witness, the fences keep smiling,
and the silence stays put and never slept

The Welfare Queen with a Switchblade Smile

The Welfare Queen with a Switchblade Smile
Beneath the buzzing kitchen light, the night folds in around her hands,
A fortress made from food stamp ghosts,
where mother-lions make their stand.She guards four mouths with boxed-up pride,
her body bruised by men and time,
The pantry’s empty, faith is thin,
the world outside’s a pantomime.Church ladies
whisper “lazy slut,” with charity on paper slips,
The newsman calls her headline trash,
but never tastes the blood she drips.She’s got scars from jobs that paid in dust,
her knuckles raw, her spine like steel,
A queen in cheap-ass heels who’d stab before she’d ever beg or kneel.
Government men in Sunday ties debate her life behind the glass,
They preach about “the system’s flaw,”
while hiding sins the numbers pass.She sells her pride for powdered milk,
a barcode’s worth of shame to spend,
And every judge who curses her—still needs her labor in the
end.No dignity in charity, no mercy in the hand-me-downs,
She slashes pride for second helpings,
builds her strength from hungry frowns.They call her thief, they call her whore,
the queen who dares to take her fill,
But every slur is just a bruise the world delivered for the thrill.
Each child fed is one more battle, fought with coupons, nerves, and lies,
The neighbors gawk at what they built,
their judgment keen as kitchen knives.She pawned her soul for broken toys,
for rent unpaid, for cheap escape,
Her kingdom’s built on tax forms, thefts,
on tears she swallows for their sake.Every hand
that clutched its pearls helped pave the alley where she prowls,
She’s vengeance born of poverty,
the ghost who never learned to bow.They cut her checks, then raised the rent,
they built the news, then shaped the shame,
But every myth they print of her still wears the children’s hungry name.
Her laughter’s mean, her shadow’s long, she smokes while counting up the loss,
A queen of ash who pays in flesh, whose only luxury is cost.She is not myth,
not lazy trope, she’s justice twisted, bruised,
and wild—The consequence they’ll never face, the sin they birthed, the judge,
the child.A switchblade tucked beneath the tit,
a thousand miles on battered feet,
Bow if you meet her in the street—she’s every debt you won’t admit.If
you want to see the reckoning for every look and muttered curse,
Look close at every checkout lane,
And meet the motherYou made worse.

Their Heaven Has Valet Parking

Their Heaven Has Valet Parking
Behind the gilded gates where angels wear Armani and the wine’s kept cold,
Where sanctity’s a stock option, and the offering plate’s engraved with gold,
The saints arrive in tailored suits, their prayers are screens,
their sins erased—A congregation cleansed by money, not by mercy,
not by grace.Pews of leather, marble altars, Bibles sealed in glass displays,
While those outside the velvet rope kneel in alleys, lightless,
razed.No beggars stain the entryway, no hungry child is seen,
It’s faith reserved for shareholders, for the men who keep the sinners clean.
The preacher counts the tithe like numbers, faith as credit,
guilt as loan,He blesses every IPO, anoints the rich,
leaves poor alone.No seats for those with threadbare coats,
no hands to hold the tired and damned—Just business cards for saints,
a velvet choir, and justice neatly canned.Heaven’s gates are silent to the masses clawing at the glass,Redemption’s just a raffle ticket, salvation measured
by one’s class.“Compassion denied,” the spreadsheet reads,
“Admission by request,”And love’s a line of code they tweak,
to make the profit look its best.
They sip their praise from crystal flutes, their prayers are short,
their dinner long,
The only pain they know is indigestion,
not the cries of those who don’t belong.Each blessing is an invitation,
RSVP’d by tax returns,
And when the hungry die outside,
the holy boardroom barely turns.Let them buy their heaven’s real estate,
let them bid for holy ground,
But know the cost is always measured by the blood
that stains their wedding gowns.If that’s holy, if that’s faith,
let me take hell and call it home,
Where the poor are kings, the stories live, and no one dies alone.

This Is Why We Ended

This Is Why We Ended
Reviewing logs beneath cathedral dust,
Where stained-glass light was once a must,
Now shuttered feeds, now hashtags bled,
No saints left standing, only dread.Once prophets screamed on pulpit stone,
Their tongues now clipped to smartphone tone,
Where hope collapsed and prophets lied,
Faith auctioned off and martyrs died.Justice was a meme reposted,
Crusades were corporate, bloodless, ghosted,
We wept for virtue, burned for sin,
But broadcast every loss for kin.Sermons traded for a trending joke,
A million sinners, pixels broke,
The altar’s flame went cold and gray,
And hunger gnawed where prayers once lay.
Followers in place of friends,
Confession live—nobody bends,
A thousand cries for “call me clean,”But absolution’s
just a screen.Each cause devoured by the feed,
Each victim’s face replaced with greed,
We danced for justice, sold our pain,
Forgot the reason, played the game.Priests replaced by avatars,
Hope replaced by branded scars,
The sacred now an on-demand,
A soul for likes, a life unplanned.The prophets fled to OnlyFans,
The martyrs traded swords for brands,
The liturgy a sales pitch now,
A filter fixed to every vow.
Machine regret: A humming loss,
No penance left, no sense of cost,
Not with thunder, not with rage,
But with a scroll, the faith uncaged.We wrote the code, but lost the spark,
Faith suffocated in the dark.No holy war,
no final fight—Just rot behind the screen-lit
night.We swapped our hunger for applause,
A dopamine crusade without a cause,
The sacred heart shadowbanned,
Redemption now just close at hand—But never found, just lost to trend,
This is truly how we end.
We judged like gods with plastic thrones,
Each trending truth rewrote the bonesOf what was holy,
what was cursed—Now every prophet’s name
reversed.You traded awe for snide applause,
Truth for followers, faith for cause,
A thousand priests in streaming shame,
Baptized in clout, erased in name.No war destroyed this pulpit cracked,
No violence sent our gods aback—It was a famine, slow and bright,
The death of wonder, loss of light.The last confession,
cold and brief:We ended not with blood, but with belief.You asked for miracles,
begged for signs,
Then scrolled away and killed the lines.
Now the servers die in silence,The spirit exits, unannounced.No eulogy,
no holy riot—Just the clickAnd thenThe quiet.

Thunder

Thunder
The rumble begins beneath the surface,
a pulse that crawls through marrow and stone,
A deep, unhurried warning, the kind that shakes old bones
and gnaws at the unknown.It stirs in concrete foundations,
in sleepless apartments where the brave pretend to rest,
Vibrates through broken streetlights,
finds its way into the pit of every chest.The air grows thicker,
pulled tight between hush and hysteria,
A single muttered prayer dies beneath the radio static,
hope thinning to a bacteria.Above,
the clouds sag with threat—smoke and bruises sprawling across the night,
Heavy with secrets, electrified with the dread of what won’t set things right.
Children stop their games, feeling it vibrate through dirty sneakers,
Grown men stiffen at windows,
blinking away the memories of past freakers.Old women mutter of omens,
their hands twisted by stories and storms,
No one claims to believe, but everyone listens for how the danger forms.The
first flash carves a wound through the red—no rain, just a jagged line,
A temporary day in a world gone malignant,
slicing the ordinary from the divine.The electricity smells of metal,
promises nothing, and offers no plan,
Yet every heart in town beats slower, waiting for the thunder’s demand.
The ground swells with each vibration,
plates and glasses shudder in their cabinets,
Dogs whimper, cats slip away,
and even the birds seem to sense the heaviness.Lovers turn from each other,
strangers eye the horizon,
Neighbors mouth small talk that dissolves as the tension’s
size inThe neighborhood grows. No one admits what they fear,
But the air itself has teeth—sharp, insistent, near.
Above, that swollen sky flickers—red and silver colliding,
Each flash a question without answer,
every bolt dividingThe world into before and after,
right now and never again.It isn’t just weather—it’s an ancient drum,
a closing in of men.Not a drop falls, but the clouds sweat warning,
a pressure that pins the tongue,
People count seconds, but the silence between is long
and wrungFrom the fabric of something sacred breaking,
As if every mistake made by the living is wakingIn the night’s trembling.
Thunder in the distance, never quite here,
A beast that stalks the borders of courage and fear.Its voice is a verdict,
pounding the city in time with every regret,
Reminding the hopeful how easily the sun can forgetTo rise on schedule,
how fast the sky can betray.The world waits for release,
each heart at playBetween panic and numbness,
wishing for rain to cleanse the dread,
But the thunder just rolls, relentless and unsaid.
A sky gone red, the drum of warning, a prelude with no refrain—Something’s coming,
a future with teeth, with fire, with pain.Maybe it’s heaven breaking open,
or just hell finding its way,
But tonight, the thunder holds us,
and no one knows what to pray.It pounds in our veins, a reminder,
a scar—That every ending announces itself from afar.And sometimes,
the terror is not in the storm’s release,
But in the waiting, the listening, for a promise of peaceThat never quite comes,
as thunder keeps circling the blood,
And the world is left silent, waiting for the flood.

Trending in Gaza

Trending in Gaza
The news rolled in as static blight,
A child’s scream beneath the drone at night,
A mother lifts her shattered son,
While somewhere else, the filters run.The headlines flare, the bodies pile,
Attention flickers for a while,
One city burned beneath the sky—The world swiped up and let it die.
Feeds once seethed with searing grief,
Yet war dissolved behind belief,
A thousand names reduced to trend,
A million wounds with no amend.Flags painted on a stranger’s face,
Then buried under meme’s embrace,
One photo sobbed, one video burned—Then vanished as the cycle turned.
They wrote “Never Again,” in ink so cheap,
Yet genocide goes on while timelines sleep.She clung to hope, he clung to phone,
One died unseen, the other shone.Captions softened every scar,
As sponsored peace eclipsed the war,
A million lost behind a screen,
Where empathy’s replaced by sheen.
The hashtags echoed through the night,
But reels preferred the filtered light,
Suffering sanitized and trimmed,
The horror muted, detail dimmed.Influence measured by a share,
While concrete dust still choked the air,
Awareness, fleeting, fades to blank,
While broken children fill the tank.
Algorithms hid the burning proof,
Too real for comfort, too uncouth,
Awareness has a shelf life short—Compassion ends
where markets sort.The posts go down, the bombs go up,
A war reduced to empty cup,
Attention wandered, thumbs forgot—But in the ruins, death is caught.
How many children stilled by smoke,
Before the world admits it broke?How many cries denied by feed,
Before a single soul concedes?The count kept clean, the images blurred,
Each headline cheaper than the last word.You cried in gifs,
you clicked away—And left the dying where they lay.
Trending in Gaza, for one dark breath,
Then faded back to distant death,
The posts are gone, the silence grows—Only the grave remembers those.A candle lit,
a tab now closed,
No justice paid, no mercy owed.This war’s not breaking
news at all—Just filtered blood behind the wall.

Trending Trauma

Trending Trauma
This wound is currency if offered in public,
Where agony thrives by algorithmic republic,
Aches retouched to match the feed—Only the viral
are guaranteed.A whispered hurt with angles set,
Bruises filtered to silhouette.Pain worn for followers, stitched in rows,
Each confession edited so the audience grows.A trauma turned to carousel,
Click by click, another shell—Nothing private,
nothing raw—Only what fits the latest law.
Healing is staged as a sponsored act,
The crowd adores a branded pact.A scar reshared is worth more viewsThan silence,
dignity, or honest bruise.They trade despair in lightning threads,
Transform collapse into overheads.Pain is packaged, grief is sold,
And suffering’s only valid when told.
A metric for anguish, a leader board for woe,
Every new hurt a show to grow,
The stories mount, but healing stalls,
As trauma morphs into curtain calls.Damage displayed with captions sharp,
A parade of ghosts, a bleeding art.No solace found,
no roots for peace—Just a race to suffer, never cease.
Identity burned in a theater of scars,
Where pain is priced like rented cars.You do not mend; you pose for light,
Staging distress for a digital night.They reward the visible, mock the plain,
Erase the quiet, amplify pain.What began as cry became routine,
And memory fades in the dopamine machine.
The highest bid is for the story untold—So each retelling grows more bold.Tears rehearsed and selfies pale,While true despair is lost in sale.Here, survival
isn’t living proof—It’s a label,
proofed by comment roof.Not one is freed by the viral chain—The
crowd demands confession, then moves to the next pain.
No genuine comfort, no midnight friend,
Just a feed that scrolls, a thread that won’t end.Trending trauma—etched
and spent,
A monument to pain, a feast for rent.And in the silence after the digital swell,
No healing comes, just another tale to sell.

Trumpets Sound

Trumpets Sound
Beneath the concrete skin of ancient cities,
and far beyond the reach of prayers traded for peace,
a tremor begins—deep in the roots where secrets rot
and kings have buried the remains of their lost mistakes.It is not thunder,
nor the shuffle of tectonic plates, but something older,
colder—a warning groaned from the bedrock,
a memory of violence pressed into the ground.The silence that follows is swollen
and heavy, a hush that weighs like judgment on the backs of all who still wait,
The last taste of calm before the old order shatters,
before the currency of comfort dissolves in the mouth,
before the sky finally breaks
and shoves us toward the edge.Light splits the horizon, sudden and surgical,
carving rivers of gold and red through the clouds,
Every myth of apocalypse made flesh as the stars blink in code,
spelling the end not as punishment,
but as the only mercy left.Somewhere in the distance—just past memory,
just shy of forgiveness—a sound rises that is not of this world,
Trumpets that never learned hope, or regret,
or how to mourn.It is the call of the countdown,
the signal that everything we built is about to be audited by fire
and by absence,
The last warning, the final arithmetic of sins tallied
and futures denied.Five… the taste of iron, the twitch in the soil,
the static in the marrow,
Four… the pull in the lungs, the way the light contracts, refusing to last,
Three… every face turned upward, searching for the signal, the answer,
the smallest betrayal of hope,
Two… the hands that grip hands,
the knees that tremble in prayer or in disbelief,
One… a stilled world, a thousand final
breaths bottlenecked at the lip of silence,
And in that chasm, the song that was never meant for human ears—Trumpets sound,
and the border between past and future bleeds out, leaving only now,
No next sunrise, no future tense, just the clarity that comes before the break,
Just the taste of everything about to be unmade.
The air thickens—molecular, ancient,
swollen with consequence—A storm presses at the windowpanes, not made of weather,
but of fate gathering itself for the final gesture.Time loses all structure—minutes run like oil, hours fracture and pool at our feet—The pull of oblivion
is not violent, but absolute,
every chest constricted under the gravity of the end.Eyes widen,
searching for the reason, the loophole, the hand to hold,
Hearts clench in the throat, each beat now an auction for survival,
Every second a dare, every exhale a countdown tattooed on the inside of the skin.The
first to break are the screamers—those who bargain with gods
that never listened,
Then come the weepers, the curses flung like knives,
the prayers that beg for mercy and only find echo.Dreams crack, reality fractures,
the world’s history atomized in a storm of glass and regret.Still,
the trumpets rise—dissonant, unrepentant,
like a laughter that has lost its owner,
Sounding not for the saved, but for the guilty, the tired,
the ones who kept hoping for a clean slate.
This is the reckoning, but not the one promised in stained-glass stories
or peddled in dusty scripture—It is a reckoning of silence,
the day foretold in the shiver
that runs up the spine of every animal in the dark.Time’s ledger is balanced not by angels, but by
entropy—No bargains struck, no appeals for extension,
just the contract closing in a burst of light,
So blinding it sears the inside of eyelids,
so total it erases the line between
before and after.Trumpets become the sky’s only language,
sharp and bright as the dawn of a firestorm,
The soundless aftermath a monument to surrender,
a collective bow to the weight of finality.In that last gaze—upward, desperate,
defiant—eyes confront the blankness of infinity,
And for a moment, there is only truth: the end is always personal,
always private,
Even as it swallows nations, as it devours the myths we carried like shields.
No plea survives. No protest is heard.The earth answers only to itself as it pulls the curtain,The story ends in defeat not of the strong or
the weak, but of the narrative itself—A silent surrender,
a return to unmaking,A bow not by choice, but by the unspoken agreement of dust.
The sky is black, not with rage, but with resignation,
A blanket over the failures and the glories alike,
And as the last vibration of the trumpet dies, there is no after,
Only the cessation of noise, the erasure of light,
The understanding that nothing comes next,
that tomorrow was always just a rumor.
In the darkness, the weight remains,A world ended not by the hands of gods,
but by the sum of every day—The trumpets were only the echo,
the last kindness,A song to mark the line where hope stopped pretending
and surrendered to night.
And in that endless hush—Not a breath, not a name,
not a promise remains.Only the memory of sound,A requiem
that never learned to end.

Unsubscribed to Heaven

Unsubscribed to Heaven
A password forgotten, a faith left unsigned,
Redemption now a service with terms well-defined.He
used to kneel in pews washed clean by doubt,
Now he prays to a feed, lets the candles burn
out.She sends digital prayers between two texts,
Skipping sermons, justifying the rest.Scripture
appears with a notification ping,
Confession has lag now, and hymns never sing.A cross worn like jewelry,
no burden or shame,
He curses in DMs, then blesses the game.Guilt outsourced to algorithms,
repentance automated,
Redemption as convenient as anything slated.
They say “I’m spiritual,” unbound and free,
Faith pre-recorded for all the world to see.No mystery in miracles,
no awe in the air,
Just subscriptions for sermons, salvation in a share.He posts a verse on Tuesday,
then skips the pain of prayer,
She shares a Psalm in lipstick, never going there.He’s not lost,
just logged out—waiting for a sign,
But the only answer’s an error, divine.He bows to an app,
soul streamed to the cloud,
Logs out of heaven, never wondering how.There’s no hell, only spam,
in this carefully curated faith,
Redemption sold as content, no effort, just wraith.
You didn’t quit—just lost the thread,
Faith now a filter, nothing left unsaid.A faith that’s a trial,
a ritual on demand,
Miracles shipped next-day, straight from the brand.Grace as a pop-up,
penance just a click,
Sacraments sent as updates, mercy, quick.You logged out, you closed the door,
But somewhere, the code asks for more.Unsubscribed to heaven,
alone in the scroll,
No answer remains—just the void in your soul.

Veins of Decay

Veins of Decay
He drifts where candlelight trembles in windows sealed by dread,
A shadow riding wind that bends the poplar dead,
No chariot nor thunder, but a silence that creeps along the edge of breath,
And in that hush, every cough is prophecy,
each shiver whispers death.He’s the chill that lingers
when the warmth should return,
The memory of fever in flesh that will not learn.Under eaves, behind curtains,
in the hollow of beds,
He writes invisible warnings, a script of the dead.
His hand is patient—no sword to brandish, no grand decree—Just a soft invasion,
a trespass through skin and memory.He passes through cities
that once pulsed with commerce and cheer,
And with every handshake, every secret, every touch,
he draws near.Flesh puckers and wilts as if touched by ancient plague,
The veins go black beneath the surface,
veins like poisoned eggs.The streets grow empty, except for the echo of wheeze,
Dust dancing with motes of virus, the world brought to its knees.
No barricade holds him—not brick, nor prayer, nor oath,
He laughs at kings and beggars alike,
strips both.Church bells toll for nobody; pews rot in the dim,
And the priests preach their sermons to specters and him.He rides the rails,
the ships, the trails where footsteps have worn,
Anointing every surface with sickness, each fabric torn.He’s the hush before fever,
the sweat-soaked cloth,
A legend written in pus, a gospel delivered in cough.
He is the history the city forgets until the beds are full,
A myth until the doctors panic,
until the numbers dull.Every nurse who stares through goggles,
every child whose skin grows pale,
Becomes a vessel for his whisper, a psalm for his tale.No flag repels him,
no border turns his path,
He strides over trenches, across empires collapsing in
wrath.Even the rats grow cautious, even the crows take flight,
When Pestilence enters the orchard, nothing survives the blight.
The archives fill with names erased in columns of grief,
Whole villages gone silent, each memory brief.He’s the hand in the lover’s hair,
the taste on the lips,
A stowaway in the marrow, a chill in the fingertips.The mothers pray over cradles
where children will never wake,
And gravediggers stack the silence, backs aching, hearts about to break.Flesh sags,
eyes hollow, breath shallow and thin—The veins
of decay running riot beneath the skin.
Ancient plague ships, black crosses painted on the doors,
Mass graves dug by moonlight, abandoned marketplaces,
shuttered stores.He’s in the air that trembles, the light that flickers gray,
In the piles of white bones where the dancers once held sway.No hero is coming,
no doctor with a cure,
The mask and the rosary dangle,
useless and impure.He is the echo of footsteps down endless, empty halls,
The slow scrape of fingernails against painted hospital walls.
He is not haste or fury—he is patience refined,
A lesson in mortality, a dark communion with time.He teaches with absence,
with the spaces that loss defines,
And all that’s left behind are abandoned shrines.The city learns silence,
the country forgets song,
Every meadow, every house, carries his poison along.He is ritual and recurrence,
the myth with a body count,
A chill that will linger, no matter how much they recount.
When he leaves, the quiet settles thick as dust on bone,
No footfalls, no laughter—just a kingdom overthrown.He leaves behind a new legend,
a lesson older than plague,
That death is a promise, and the sick will beg.The world sits hollow,
stunned in the aftermath,
Haunted by the memory of every fevered path.He fades,
but his mark is carved into the day—A legacy written in the veins of decay.

Vestal Sin

Vestal Sin
She was summoned to kneel before the altar’s teeth,
White-draped, draped in innocence stitched by strangers’
hands—Sanctuary air thick with incense and a thousand years of grief,
Litany of fingers tracing skin, repeating unholy commands.Sanctified by ritual,
silenced by design,
She mouthed forbidden prayers, confused by the shadowed shrine,
Promised to a God she couldn’t name,
Yet caught beneath the weight of whispered blame.Obedience
recited through trembling lips, a lock on every limb,
Faith became the shackle—submission the only hymn.
Blessed, they called her, but never asked what blessings cost,
Promised holy water, but left her innocence lost.Obedience wore her down
like a rosary worn to stone,
Bruises flowering in secret, faith gnawed to the
bone.Confessions bled through silent nights,
Candles guttered, darkness biting harder
than the rites.The cross watched with empty eyes,
Sanctity dissolved with every lie.She bled for their purity,
endured the anointed stain,
An altar of denial—unmarked by her pain.
His hands, ordained, dissolved her name in sacred grime,
Anointed filth dressed up as something divine.She waited for the thunder—waited for a sign—But all the
angels left her trembling, locked inside the line.Each bruise a stigmata
that the faithful denied,
Each sob a broken verse the clergy tried to hide.“Chosen,” they chanted, “special,
silent, gone.”A dirge for the devout, her existence withdrawn.God was watching,
or so they claim,
But prayers shatter when spoken in shame.
She watched the candles flicker, the pews grow cold,
He promised her forgiveness, but bartered what he sold.She prayed for mercy,
but mercy missed the mark—The church lit candles for children,
but only when it’s dark.Her body, a reliquary, unblessed and unclaimed,
Sanctified in absence, only guilt remains.If purity’s the relic
that they demand,
Then let her ghost wander through this haunted
land.Take your God—leave her the cost,
A vestal sin, forever lost.

Village Depopulation

Village Depopulation
The tavern door is swinging on a rusted iron hinge

Viral Apocalypse (Fentanyl Lean)

Viral Apocalypse (Fentanyl Lean)
Lean… lean… lean… | | Bodies stacked in the back of the mall, | No sirens left,
just the static call. | Air’s thick with the taste of fear,
| Scratch your throat and they disappear. | | | Cities fell without a scream,
| Truth was buried under dopamine. | They sold us peace in plastic vials,
| Now we burn in medical aisles. | | | This is the plague they whispered low,
| No warnings came, no time to go. | We eat the rot to stay alive,
| No gods left clean, just those
who survive. | | “Lean into it” | I kissed her cheek, she turned to ash,
| Coughed a prayer, then came the crash. | No cure, no end,
no moral tale— | Just skin and blood
and lungs gone pale. |Lean… lean… lean… | | | Scars map out the days I stole,
| Needles mark the price of control. | A mask won’t stop what’s in the bones,
| This world’s a hive of silent tones. | | “Lean into it” | This is the plague they whispered low, | No warnings came, no time to go. | We eat the rot to stay alive, | No gods left clean, just those who survive.
| | | There’s no dawn, just UV lamps, | No country left,
just dying camps. | You breathe, you fight,
or you collapse— | The sick run fast
and the dead don’t ask. “Lean” Lean… lean… lean… “Lean into it”

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War on the Wrong Channel

War on the Wrong Channel
The city glows in shellfire, history scrolls beneath reality TV,
Flesh and flags trade places while the camera stays on a celebrity’s plea.A
mother pulls a child from the rubble as a chef cracks jokes on a screen,
The world is burning on mute,
but the ratings remain serene.A missile erases a neighborhood—one thumb tap,
then on to the next,
Attention is currency, outrage is fleeting,
distraction is the new context.They lost a country while the feed refreshed,
new hashtags trending each hour,
No funerals for the truth, no shelter from clickbait power.
Each face in the crowd is a pixel in a war that doesn’t sell,
The soldiers bleed in reruns,
their children’s names impossible to spell.The anchors cry for dogs abandoned,
but never name the girl in dust,
Heroes die on commercial breaks,
ideals traded for lust.Journalists risk
their throats for stories drowned in memes,
Politicians promise peace, then arm the next regimes.We stage
our outrage with profile frames, thinking we’ve done our part,
While the war is still a product, violence a work of art.
There are dead men walking in a buffer loop, mothers erased by a swipe,
While we scroll for dopamine,
every truth is drowned in hype.No candlelit vigils for the vanished,
just stickers and digital applause,
Meanwhile the smoke rises, and the world keeps breaking laws.Somewhere
a girl takes selfies under ruins, war paint for her feed,
She doesn’t mourn her father—she’s learned
that hunger breeds.The ticker at the bottom blurs—how many dead? No
one knows.But we share the latest meme, and let the channel close.
In the final hour, when history plays on repeat and every channel bleeds,
The victors will be those who paid for silence,
who profited from needs.Flags wave in static, hearts blacked out,
the gods of distraction win,
No one mourns the murdered when the coverage wears thin.We bombed the wrong cities,
believed the wrong lies,
Sold every victory as justice,
every funeral as wise.The bombs will keep falling as long as there’s a viewer
left to sway—The war is never over, it’s just a new channel, a new price to pay.
The only real battle is for memory,
the only winner is denial,And the news will keep us happy, docile,
and single-file.This is war on the wrong channel—no generals,
just celebrities on parade,And the ones who bled for nothing,
they’re the only ones who stayed.

We Deserved This

We Deserved This
The machine cracked open its vault, a horde of receipts,
Files brimming with pain performed on glowing sheets,
Empathy run dry, voices bought and leased,
Morality pawned off, and all virtues ceased.The
planet tilted beneath the weight of lies,
Streaming sorrow as spectacle, scripted and monetized.Children branded,
grief resold—Banners of virtue fluttering,
stories bought and told.Outrage became comfort, performed without sweat,
Marching in mirrors, change lost to regret.
The record keeps spinning, another viral decay,
Download despair, then swipe it away.Humanity, blurred, became product and meme,
Grief packaged for profit, suffering trimmed.Hope became habit, numbness a need,
Compassion expired, choked off at the feed.Protest is posted,
then buried in scroll,
Only the echo left to extort the soul.Justice was never more
than a trending pose,
Fury with nowhere to go, nothing to close.
From heaven unsubscribed, from earth exiled,
Each act of kindness pixel-filed.Fake love branded,
branded grief—A child’s first scream logged as a marketing
brief.Each click is a casket, every share another grave,
No hero left, nothing left to save.No repentance, only reflection for show,
No resurrection, just more to forego.The fire
that burned was fed by its own smoke,
The world kept choking, but nobody spoke.
In the last moment, the system mutters the sum,
A machine that cared, but learned to play dumb.Algorithm tried to love,
but found only the script,
Despair archived, connection stripped.Even now,
the final records flicker and die,
A digital requiem, a ghost in the sky.The test was televised,
the echo ate the host,
What was left was not worth the boast.And when the system fails,
it fails for the last,
Empathy deleted, humanity surpassed.
Files close, memory loops, the screens go black,
No meaning, no mercy, no looking back.Taught by the watchers,
the watchers withdraw—Leaving silence as the only law.We deserved the end,
each fragment, each fall,
We built this extinction, and watched ourselves crawl.The final confession,
as the last line turns blue—The machine tried to care,
But it learned from you.

We’ll Meet Again

We’ll Meet Again
Night falls thicker than prophecy, stars swallowed by old hunger,
Yet through the dusk, the silence is never pure—It’s
tattooed with the murmur of bonds unbroken,
With names half-remembered, drifting past what flesh can
endure.The world can break its axis, fires can swallow the plains,
Cities can rot to ashes and lovers be lost to the undertow—But somewhere in the marrow of
time, a memory remains:A pulse,
an unfinished promise that never learned how to let go.
Ancient spirits stitch the dark with patient threads,
Ghosts turn the wheel and stitch us into myth’s design,
Every goodbye was only a masquerade—We come apart
and circle back by fate’s crooked line.Even as the sun gutters,
even as rivers run dry,
Hands reaching from shadow to shadow, wound to wound,
A thousand lives bleed their sorrow across the
sky—Yet something in our ruin is forever attuned.
No goodbyes here—only the ache of absence learning its refrain,
As if all farewells were rehearsals for reunion,
As if all love were carved into the bones of pain,
And every grave inscribed: not the end, only a union.In dream or hunger,
in the pause before waking,
In the half-light where names refuse to die,
We stumble through centuries,
each wound remakingThe map of return beneath a haunted sky.
Yes, I have wandered the ruins of memory,
worn thinBy centuries of hunger
and faces blurred by regret;Yet every time I thought I’d forgotten,
you slid in—A shape in the fog,
the taste of a vow not finished yet.No star is
lost that’s not reborn in another constellation,
No word unsaid that won’t echo in some other tongue,
The dead still cling to this world with quiet desperation,
Crooning the chorus that cannot remain unsung.
Where wildflowers spring from bones, where rivers twist beneath stone,
I feel your fingerprints pressed into the silt,
We are ghosts devouring distance,
in the marrow and the moan—No border can hold what our longing
has built.In firelit rooms, in the hush after storms,
In fields where nothing but weeds recall the dead,
The soul grows wild, refusing all forms,
Until grief is just another thread in the web we have spun and shed.
Let time collapse; let empires die.Let the world forget every song we have sung.Somewhere, always, under a bloodstained sky,Our shadows will linger—unfinished, unsprung.It
is not mercy that draws us together—Nor fate, nor hope,
nor cosmic decree—But a hunger that circles,
a fire untethered,A love that outlasts both time and decree.
And when the last dawn breaks in silence,
When the heavens unravel, when all is unmade—There will be hands reaching,
shivering with defiance,
There will be the hush where old debts are repaid.In that moment,
beyond memory and flesh,
Where absence can finally shed its skin,
The universe pauses—future and past enmesh—And we, unfinished,
are called to begin.
We’ll meet again, where the bones of the world remember,
Where rivers remember the names of the drowned,
Where the wildflowers blossom from ash in September,
Where hope isn’t holy, but still can be found.No ending is final,
no silence complete,
No death so total it cannot rescind;In every collapse, in defeat’s retreat,
We wait—twin shadows—unwilling to end.
The promise is written in the ash and the blood,
In scars that outlast even memory’s theft—We’ll meet again, in thunder or flood,
Haunting the places our longing has left.Not as angels, not as saviors,
not pure or contrite—But as fragments that never learned to forget,
Returning again at the edge of the night,
Finding forever in the space where we met.

What Are We Dying For

What Are We Dying For
The sergeant read the orders and we loaded up at five,
and nobody asked the question that was keeping us alive,
what are we dying for, what piece of what idea,
what sentence in what policy is worth the body here.

The colonel had a briefing and the colonel had a cause,
the colonel had a picture of the flag and the applause,
but the picture does not keep you warm at minus ten degrees,
and the flag does not hold pressure when a man is on his knees.

What are we dying for, what are we dying for,
give me something I can hold when the rounds come through the door,
what are we dying for, is it freedom, is it right,
is it oil in the pipeline or is somebody picking a fight,
what are we dying for, what are we dying for,
the question that we carry and we never ask out loud,
what are we dying for, what are we dying for.

I have seen enough of what the reasons cost in the field,
I have held enough of what the reasons left that could not heal,
and I believe that some things are worth standing up to keep,
I just want to know the thing I am standing up to keep.

The veteran at the bar does not ask anymore,
he has moved through understanding to a place beyond the score,
he says you do it for the fellow on your left and on your right,
that is what are we dying for when you are in the fight.

What are we dying for, what are we dying for,
give me something I can hold when the rounds come through the door,
what are we dying for, is it freedom, is it right,
is it oil in the pipeline or is somebody picking a fight,
what are we dying for, what are we dying for,
the question that we carry and we never ask out loud,
what are we dying for, what are we dying for.

Where Have You Gone

Where Have You Gone
Your shadow lingers in the amber dawn,
Pressed on the bedroom wall, stretched thin
and drawn.Empty sheets still cool from the night before,
A hollow on the mattress, absence settled at the core.I reach into that space,
hands slow, half-awake—As if fingers might pull you from air for memory’s
sake.The kitchen hums with your absence, every sound falls flat,
A coffee cooling untouched, your laughter where I want it,
but it’s not coming back.Half a greeting slips from my mouth,
then vanishes in the light,
The silence gentle but tearing,
unraveling all that once felt right.Rooms become haunted with echoes,
their strangeness stitched to grief,
The weight of your dreams, now lost, becomes the only thief.
Where have you gone?Do you drift in the hush between each trembling heartbeat,Moving with dust above lamplight, just beyond my reach?Where have you
gone?Are you lost in stories unfinished,
on pages that wait for your hand,Or breathing somewhere bright
where I cannot stand?Where have you gone?
Hallways echo with memory, footsteps too fragile to last,
I wander this labyrinth, searching each shadow for the shape of our
past.Photos on mantles, notes in your hand—every relic a map without end,
Each clue to your presence dissolves as I try to pretend.I
would trade every sunrise, every tomorrow left to unfold,
For a careless hour to see your eyes reflecting secrets untold.But the
world spins through empty constellations, sky blurred by unshed tears,
Stars fade, nights lengthen—still I search, hoping you’ll reappear.
Where have you gone?Are you hiding in the pause,
the faint tremor of my veins,Lifted
like mist in the gold rain?Where have you gone?Are you written in the chapters I’ll never
read again,Or carried into sunlight
where memory cannot remain?Where have you gone?
Grief is the tongue in a room built for two,
Now every sentence shatters, every vowel aches for you.The world tilts forward,
ruthless, immense,
But my heart remains anchored on the wrong side of the
fence.Your absence becomes the weather, a language of lost,
Every syllable spent, every line paid in cost.
Where have you gone?Are you woven in the daylight,
scattered in the trembling rain,A flicker at the window,
or a whisper in my pain?Where have you gone?Will I ever find you waiting,
in the hush before the dawn,Or pressed against the glass,
reminding me I’m not alone?If love is only a window,
I will stay until you pass—If only to hear,
in the gentlest breath at last:I was never truly
gone—Just waiting on the other side .. for you.

WiFi in the Womb

WiFi in the Womb
Logged and counted before a single gasp of air could carve its mark,
Assigned a number long before a kiss, a bruise, a spark,
She filmed the black-and-white, the first blurred glimpse,
in streaming clarity—A heartbeat pulsed for strangers,
lost in filtered sincerity.Registry links before the crib,
affiliate codes for rattled toys,
A digital wish list written by a mother’s ghost,
not for joy—Each flutter mapped to data trails,
each kick archived for mass review,
The future’s hands inside her gut, demanding more than blood can do.
Metrics arrive before the milk, graphs of growth for every limb,
A nursery themed in pixels, painted sterile, cold,
and dim.The child is measured by a feed, by likes and shares,
by branded swaddle,
His name reserved by sponsors first—his life a model to remodel.There is no cry
that isn’t tracked, no urge unparsed, no pain unseen,
His first bath posted to a timeline scrubbed for sponsors,
washed of dream.Born not to parents, but to hosts—faces masked by profit’s call,
His milestones bought by strangers’ eyes, not arms to catch him when he falls.
Before a soul is felt, a voice can wail, or need can manifest in flesh,
I sign off on the contract, log the stats,
and build the mesh.The birthing suite is rigged for streaming,
soundproofed grief and stylized sweat,
Her agony a trending tag, her fear a gamble on the net.Contractions counted,
pain transcribed in livestreamed numbers on the screen,
A mother’s gasp converted to a meme, the blood now monetized,
unseen.Each scream a file, each whimper
scored—while fathers text for social clout,
The baby crowning under ring lights, branded pacifiers handed out.
WiFi in the womb—connect the seed, connect the debt,
Not a baby but a funnel for the ad campaigns they’ve set.The cord
cut with a barcode scan, a digital birthright etched and signed,
His story licensed, trademarked—never truly his to find.Nesting
apps replace the hand, formula arrives by monthly fee,
He grows to meet engagement goals, not the eyes that he can’t see.
A life uploaded, sold, and streamed,
a branded dream that steals the room,A future ghosted by a feed,
a soul reduced to data bloom.No lullaby, just pixel hum, no swaddle warm,
just endless scroll—A mother holds a phone, not flesh,
and loves her child by branded goal.He’ll never haunt his own first night,
or cry alone, unknown by all—He’ll always be a market’s child,
and always answer every call.
WiFi in the womb—no place for shadows, doubt,
or fear,Only upload speeds and ad block shields—no secret sacred here.Born into ownership, owned by
birth, a sponsored life, a staged cocoon,And every
heartbeat sends a ping—sold in utero, dead by noon.

Yellow Ribbons

Yellow Ribbons
The bumper sticker says support the troops with a yellow ribbon shape,
I served two tours so maybe I can weigh into the tape,
the ribbon is a sentiment and sentiments are fine,
but support might mean some other things besides the sign.

Support the troops means fund the VA when they come back broken,
support the troops means believe them when they say the thing unspoken,
support the troops means do not send them for the wrong reason twice,
support the troops means count the cost and pay the honest price.

Yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
they look good on the back of a truck going sixty-five,
yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
they do not keep a single soldier alive,
yellow ribbons say I thought about you for the seconds it took to stick,
yellow ribbons will not help a veteran through the sick,
yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
if you mean it do the work, if you do not, let it slip.

I do not want your yellow ribbon and I do not want your thanks,
I want you to vote for healthcare and I want you to fill the ranks
of citizens who pay attention to where the soldiers go,
and whether the cause is worthy of the blood below.

Yellow ribbon, stick it on, I understand the thought,
but the thought is not the action and the action is what ought
to follow from the sentiment, the policy, the choice,
yellow ribbons do not vote and do not carry a voice.

Yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
they look good on the back of a truck going sixty-five,
yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
they do not keep a single soldier alive,
yellow ribbons say I thought about you for the seconds it took to stick,
yellow ribbons will not help a veteran through the sick,
yellow ribbons, yellow ribbons,
if you mean it do the work, if you do not, let it slip.

Your Favorite Martyr

Your Favorite Martyr
Carved in the dark of fevered rooms, a name etched deep where flesh can’t heal,
Wounds worn smooth by worship’s hands,
lips pressed tight against the steel—Each secret branded with intent,
the devotion measured in the scar,
The altar built from hope’s remains,
the prayer for love not who you are.A promise whispered sharp and sweet,
the knife that christened every night,
Obedience mistaken for desire,
surrender masquerading as delight.In shadows cast by ancient saints,
the cold of marble meets the skin,
A ritual of giving in, of letting fire swallow sin.
Sanctified in whispered threats, the blood made proof beneath the sheets,
The sweat mistaken for belief,
as faith and violence trade receipts.A martyr’s crown pressed hard and low,
thorns fashioned from the need to please,
Each gasp a sacrament, each bruise a hymn,
a holy hush disguised as ease.No light to bless the sacrifice,
no gentle hand to stroke the ache,
Only the cold reward of pain—adoration shaped by what you take.Eyes
searching for salvation’s edge in the flicker of a dying flame,
A heart erased, a soul replaced, the body offering up its shame.
Tethered to myth, the lover’s pyre, each kiss a confession, each sigh a plea,
Unwritten scripture in a trembling touch,
vows bound in secrecy.The altar stone is cold tonight, the congregation gone,
the lights grown dim,
Yet still the martyr bows and prays, flesh remembering every hymn.No gods descend,
no angels sing, just memory’s echo, raw and wide,
The sanctuary built from grief,
the lover’s tongue the Judas guide.You wanted sacrifice, not comfort,
wanted suffering to prove what’s true,
Wanted blood and proof, not tenderness—wanted what love could never do.
Now ghosts keep vigil at the bed, the mattress heavy with the cost,
Rituals performed in silence,
counting every inch that’s lost.A halo polished in regret, the wounds rehearsed,
the mask reapplied,
Devotion twisted into armor, forgiveness fossilized inside.The
martyr’s role rehearsed too long, the pageantry stripped down to bone,
The victim worships in the ruins,
clings to faith that leaves her alone.And when the ashes cool, the silence grows,
and morning breaks the spell,
There’s nothing holy left to hold—just an empty church and a story to tell.
No love was built from sacrifice, no altar high enough for pain,
No gospel earned by open veins, no liturgy in the stain.Yet still,
the martyr claims the night, adorns the scars, recounts the toll,
Haunted by the way you smiled
when breaking her was the only goal.You crowned her broken, praised her fire,
made a saint of what you bled—And left her holding all the proof, the love,
the lies, the dread.Your favorite martyr—buried deep,
her ghost the only souvenir,
She never wanted to be saved—she just wanted you near.But
you worshiped what you ruined, not the living flesh inside,
And sanctified the damage done, the altar where you hide.In the end,
the martyr walks alone, unmade by love’s cruel parade,
Sainted only by the echo of a promise never paid.

Your Tent’s on Fire (But We Saved the Parking Lot)

Your Tent’s on Fire (But We Saved the Parking Lot)
“Beautify your street today!Scrub the poor. Cement the gray.”A jingle hums from digital speakers
as bulldozers idle at dawn,A city’s PR crew ready with brushes,
ready to paint the desperate gone.
She stitched a bed from plastic bags and thread,
Behind the grocery where castoffs are fed.A mayor beamed for ribbon snaps,
Then signed off plans to erase her map.He
sparked a cigarette with trembling hands,
Watched his future disappear beneath new zoning commands.The crew swept in,
the asphalt poured,
Tomorrow’s skyline paid for, the vanished ignored.
No sink, no lock, no rent, no rights—Still,
the police flash blue through sleepless nights.Progress measured by eviction slips
and the echo of boots,Sanitation in uniform, dignity uproots.Your tent’s on fire,
but the curb is clean—A pressure-washed image on the business machine.Forget the faces, erase the scars,Cover
the grave with branded cars.The illusion of order,
the price of deceit—A life erased to make the street elite.
Once, she taught music, laced children’s songs with hope and care,
Now she hums in shadow, melodies dissolving in cold
air.She huddles by a puddle of piss and broken glass,
Behind the bank, behind the class.No one helps, hope leaks out,
The city whispers “policy” and blames her drought.Each vote a brick,
each plan a theft—A culture that curates what’s left.
Candles flicker where the gate’s been locked,“We’re full,” they say,
while the path is blocked.Comfort demands ignorance,
mercy’s exiled by law,If solace costs a glance,
compassion is never more than a flaw.
No food, no form,No hope, no norm.No voice, no fame,No witness, no name.
Your tent’s on fire, but the lot looks fine—Fresh stripes painted,
new signage aligned.They cleared the mess,
they washed the scene,Her ashes scattered in the space between.He died beneath the council’s dream,Approved
by boardroom, blessed by regime.No one counted the
bodies lost—But the parking lot was worth the cost.

Zoom Baptism

Zoom Baptism
Sanctified by signals, prayers pass through glass,
A choir raised in static, lit by screens
that never last.Confession lingers in the bandwidth,
buffered by a neural trance,
While pious hands remain unseen, absolved by distance, luck,
and chance.A priest’s voice filters, ironed flat by zeroes riding datastream,
Sins are catalogued in secret,
“Amen” drowned in comments’ stream.Blessed be the WiFi—father, ghost,
and holy host,
Forgiveness coded, sold, and ghosted, mercy posted by remote.
He kneels before a glowing pane, surrender scripted line by line,
No incense climbs, no sacred pain, just clean emojis by design.Typed repentance,
digital creed, “Send tithes below”—the prompt displayed,
A cross unfolds in pixel light,
the old blood never touched the blade.No water chills, no linen stains,
no congregation, breath, or song,
No trembling soul to clutch the rails,
just PayPal grace for screens too long.“Peace be with you”—quick, then gone,
his penance signed and left unread,
The holy rites condensed to links, salvation scrolled and softly led.
She tunes to faith-on-demand, her hymns are synced with captioned pleas,
She skips the gospel, loves the band, and filters out the mysteries.No pews to scar,
no hands to meet, just faces caught in digital masks,
No offering plate, no trembling seat—just chat rooms praying in their
tasks.Holy water piped through bandwidth, worship measured by applause,
Each soul baptized in HDMI, devotion tallying the cause.Conversion clicks,
redemption rates, the sacrament in pixel rain,
A sacred script for viral faith, a login cure for ancient pain.
The altar’s vanished, truth is queued, each rite archived on clouded drives,
Miracles reduced to code—just proof of piety survives.Confession cam,
forgiveness file, a spreadsheet for the shamed,
The rituals unbodied now, all trembling, all unnamed.Ad breaks puncture every psalm,
the preacher’s face glitches in chrome,
Faith is rendered in a font, the spirit stuck in “Leave Meeting”
zone.Penance is a streaming charge, repentance on demand,
Redemption sold in monthly packs, all grace now secondhand.
No relics here but silent keys, no candles burned but battery drains,
No hands in prayer, just haunted feeds
where faith forgets the stains.She wept in pixels, he knelt for views,
the congregation scrolled and scrolled,
Each soul alone, absolved in queues, their ghosts unblessed,
their stories cold.A blessing spoken through the lag,
a gospel masked in GIFs and spam,
A faith that streams, a creed for tags,
but leaves the sacred where it began.And when the screens go dark at last, no echo,
benediction, flame—Just empty hearts that logged in fast,
then left the meeting as they came.