You know much more than you say…
You know where you should go
And you know what you should do

You know what’s bad for you
You know what’s hurting your friends and your family–
So stop.

You don’t need to wake up—
You already are.

You have your thumb on the pulse, perception, dilation
and every aspect of the Glasco Coma Scale of this planet

Stop acting stupid
You’re not.
Stop playing ignorant
You know.

Quit this little smily awkward ho-hum
dumb-dee-dumb playcating sensitive juvenile bullshit

Quit hurting people

Stop these circling thoughts that hurt yourself
Stop setting yourself up for falls and misery
just so you can play this innocent victim
when you aren’t.

Just be nice
AKA– not an asshole
Doubly so at yourself

You’re far more of an asshole to yourself
than everyone else in your life combined
Times FIVE
and you know it
So stop.

Stop hurting the planet
Stop killing the animals
Stop filling yourself with poisons
Every single day

Stop illing yourself
Stop killing yourself
Stop maiming yourself
Stop shaming yourself

You’re being a fucking asshole
And you don’t deserve it.

You don’t even need to try to be happy
loving, peaceful, godly, charitable, compassionate,
or any of that shit!

That’s the natural order of the universe–!
It just happens.
Stop being a dick to yourself and everyone around you
And it just happens.

This world’s a good place
It treats us really, really nicely
It’s time to be nice back

I never knew that love was wise
or open eyes
or letting go an old disguise
I never knew I wore

I never knew that love meant more
than simply caring, sharing, or
bearing all to someone who
stares with love right back at you

I never knew this sunshine tingle
waking every single atom
in my body as I fathom
rising, glowing, wafting waves
of steaming life in lofting lays
of widened worlds beyond the few
I’ve ever known
And never knew
the ways I grew were slow until
you came along in song to spill
this crash of open-minded hope
and broken laws I must’ve wrote
and potent scope of widened will
and thrill of life and heightened stillness
filling me

I never knew till there was you
the sea of life but trickled through
the holes left in my wall

I used to think that love was love~
but now I see it’s All

It seems like our dreams are crushed by our foes
Our leaders, our jobs, the world, and our woes
But look a little closer and the truth often shows
That we are the walls that we find

The doubts and the fears that vibrate our minds
The trembling bouts that rise in the spine
That cloud out the sun that just wants to shine~
Mostly, it’s simply our doing

Don’t be your villain!
Stop saying NO!
If life does the killin’ — then yeah– let it go
If somebody stands and demands they’re your foe
Sometimes you’ll need to back down

But most of the time, in most every place
You’re certain to find that this isn’t the case
In all that you try, and tremble to face
You block the way to your wealth

But today is your day to make peace with yourself
For the sake of your future and state of your health
Let the world crush you if it really wants to
But never again let your killer be you

The sun rises red, as it does every day
A lone, angry eye in a skyful of gray

Today there are birds… that’s a relief
And the wind’s making rattles of the withering leaf

But the mountains, the mountains are nearly now gone
Barely a trace past the trees
Dim silouhettes through a silk curtain drawn
Lost now, to all but the breeze

Yet still I remember a sky painted blue~!
And a bright yellow sun that used to shine through
Still I remember the crispness of air
The coolness of water ~ a headful of hair

I wish I could say that the world just went bald…
But I know in my heart it’s not true
I want to believe that we’ve come to evolve
But that proof is now nearly gone too

I don’t know why I keep this record
Like some caveman that paints on a wall
A crazy old ghost that tells of a world
They won’t be comprehending at all

How to explain the taste of clean water?
How to describe the smell of fresh air?
The knowledge of rain? The concept of pain?
The texture and pleasure of hair?

God, I miss that world so much~~~
The clouds! The stars! The moon…
How I wish that I could touch
Just taste that place I knew

But all that was… has gone to fog
Lost in a veil of doubt
We thought the world would end in fire…
 …but it’s smoke that drowned us out