There's something prophetic in prophecies
There's something redundant in redundancies
There's something historic in histories
There's something obvious in all of these.
To say something simple and make it sound grand
To say something fancy that once sounded bland
To say something stupid in a well thought out plan
Is to say there's a way to stand for a stand.
Keep reading what's written it only gets worse
Keep thinking that something will come in the next verse
Keep hoping for purpose and meaning coerced.
Keep waiting for patience to hear what you heard
Lost is the victory, won is the day
Lost is the reason, won is my way
Lost is the message, won is a say
Lost is the timing, won is delay
Give me my gift, worthless ole sack
Return my mind, empty thought that I lack
Send me your fear and your confusion and hate
Hasten that package before it's too late.
I care for the past and what has been said
I care for the bodies not living nor dead
I care for the universe within my own head
I care for the riot's chaotic dissent
A fool with an ear is worth two without
A winner is equal to a loser in doubt
A writer is righter the louder he shouts
A person is wrongful with people around
Posted by
Nolan
3:01 PM
Free son,
Tell me, why do you march today.
All I ask is for a reason,
Something to explain why you act this way.
Free son,
Tell me, what do you plan to do.
You say "It is the season."
But I want to know the truth.
Free son,
Tell me, why you've left us all behind.
You tell me it's because of treason
And you didn't commit the crime
Free son,
Tell me, why you're now in jail.
Once before the deeds done
I knew such a kinder self.
Free son,
Tell me, when you finally come,
Back to the house to see us
Will you resent freedom?
Posted by
Nolan
3:01 PM
There's a change disappearing in the darkness
There's a chance if I only try my hardest
That I might save what we call the same
A voice goads me behind every wall and every curtain
A choice is what I pray for to make my answer certain
If I choose wrong then your promise will fade away
Time stops as this abyss is drawing nearer
Gazing at the lights as they abandon the future
My only hope now is the presence that you sustain
A grip on my hand is released sending me reeling
And I'm confronted by this unfamiliar feeling
With no force to guide my course I go insane
Apart finally of the dismal dreary madness
All is so recognizable within this piercing blackness
I believe I have at last found my welcome domain
Sanctuary
Comfort me
Rid of these
Memories
By myself
No one else
On the shelf
Heartless felt
Posted by
Nolan
3:00 PM
Why regret the mistake that you left,
Brought you to the mischief like a mystery?
Guilt on your face and eyes reeling lies,
Is this how you show that you're sorry?
A word never uttered, and throat swollen shut,
You can sweat and shake to your knees.
If I so dismiss your courage to fail,
You can bury that apology.
Forgiveness not sought,
Only conveniently traded for the image of you that does suffer.
My reason's not bought, and who would have thought
That one man is an incapable lover.
A fake and joker sits in my sight,
My hands folded and head hung out of sight.
If the pen is to paper and mirror to maker
Then I can show what I know to be right.
Deceive the believers!
And propagate feelings of remorse through the ages!
Though fools of us all you surely made,
Below the surface you know what has faded.
Lost in this world created by you,
With volumes of knowledge you've spoken.
Not one word of truth has ever been used,
So now, ask yourself how a soul can be woken?
If there was a way to redeem, the absence of facts,
What would remain is nothing but blame,
A cowardly liar wandering off to be lost,
The inevitable true path he claimed.
Posted by
Nolan
2:59 PM
Ponder if I might exhale
Tenacious is my ragged breath
Evidence that seeks me paired
A knife in spite of airless death
Without a word you cling
Bringing my body to your shoulder
In your eyes I once was your dream
When my confesses reached another
In my placid stare you search
For a signal or a sign
I can't confess without a shout
Nor address the doubt, you're mine
Think to press my chest
But allow the futility to fade
Remember now my time with you
Beseech this far-reaching masquerade
Light shall be turning soon with swooning velvet, maroon and violet sheets
Wrongly bore this broken soul is now forever yours to keep
Posted by
Nolan
2:59 PM
On the walls, on the telly, in the streets of the city
On the bus, on the highway, on the screen at the movies
Murmur the words, stirred, blurred from the back of your head
Scream, obscene to the scene until you get some respect
If we're better off dead, get it out of your head
The message uninspired isn't what will need to be said
Values, morals, scruples, truth
Not such figures found with proof
Not much reason for salutes
Don't pollute the jaded troops, with heralding of crimes if the line's obtuse.
Shut the door, then your mouth
Keep the cold in from getting out
Maybe what this is all about
Heat of the streets is getting you down
Stop right here, count to three seconds
1...2...I'm going to teach a short lesson
Inspiration of menace is such a terrible thing
The sound of hatred doesn't have a suitable ring
Confession that regression serves no lords but only the king
Still a way to get ascension is using the wings, rising above
Finding some love, amidst the hurt and the sting
Hotter than hell, suffocate on that smell
But endure the lure, the blatantly obvious tells
What you know to be coming, echoed by yells
Is as simple to explain as your mind to yourself
Shelving away all the shame and regrets
Placing the blame and then taking all bets
What stays the same despite the rooks and the vets?
An old code was rewrote, screaming "Testament!"
Posted by
Nolan
2:58 PM
Turning head, cocked to the side,
Angle bending bone and flesh,
Pigmented purple neck and throat,
Twisted like a discarded can.
Eyes rolled back, the bottoms bleed,
Crimson veins blaze the path to heaven,
Putrid ghastly amendment failed.
Your fluids leak from mouth and nose.
Decompose a little more.
Your body isn't black enough,
On your knees,
Wrists severed,
Hands should crawl the span of your blood soaked back.
Pull your hair and rip your ears ,
That useless growth atop your body.
Single snake beneath your garb,
Hissing as my breath draws close.
My wasted blade drawn surely forth
To exact my treasured prize
Give it now
Wasted soul
Rotting in the pits of hell
Body valued more morbid
Seen, you mean, you think all the more
Behold the glory of the corpse
Posted by
Nolan
2:57 PM
When ink dries beneath the golden sun,
I will crumple up the page.
Every muted breath you never said,
Will hold you in a daze.
When we cannot say what we write,
A way I will surely find.
To take the book that holds your look,
And captivate your mind.
Written words hold no true meaning.
They tell you what you already know.
Don't be fooled and keep what you reap,
Or you'll never find a place to sow.
Be the judge and jury,
Plaintiff and Accused.
Be right be wrong and know it's alright,
To be clearly lost and confused.
If you have the courage,
To say what's on your mind.
Loosen your tongue and have some fun,
Your heart can speak to mine.
Posted by
Nolan
2:56 PM
Take two steps back
And turn around
See those footprints in the ground?
The path you've tracked
Has brought more than
Any spectacle achieved by man
Then you realize you are lost.
People come from near and far
Blindly, feeling your indent
Footprints pressing forward your mistakable intent.
This is how it ends
Humans press to the front
Like predators they simply live to hunt
Then you realize you have been followed.
Aching for some peace
Your soles they wish to fly
Leaving behind demise, taking to the sky
But you fall down
Listening to the sound
Of footsteps that have you found
Encase your fate, beneath your waist
With hope for life
They've ensured your death
Cursed feet of strife.
Posted by
Nolan
2:56 PM
Preach to pews
From the front to back
Bring the news of better times
Fires of hell
Never seemed so close
Just might well be higher crimes
Service all
Your redeeming breath
Heed the call of divine power
Conscience black
Release those dark sins
What you lack makes you cower
I hear words
Empty phrases urged
To deliver us from that blaze
In your heart
It's your final task
Before you ask of your betrayed
Posted by
Nolan
2:55 PM
Holding the glass puzzle.
Look inside,
Spinning light,
Have a glimpse at fortune's right.
Turn it about the corner.
Stolen dream,
Empty thing,
Things so false aren't what they seem.
Flip it over and you will see.
Pretty shine,
Always mine,
Never told to cross the line.
Let it fall from your hand.
Startled crash
Action rash
Treasure held is only trash.
Let go.
Posted by
Nolan
2:55 PM
Can't help the look I'm giving you.
Just tell me what it is I should do.
Never told I asked too late.
Never asked and so I wait.
Guess I should know how to play the fool.
So I listen to your reasons why.
I hear you spell out your tangled lie,
And when I start to wonder if,
Through the waste I start to sift.
Birds risk nothing if perched nearby.
Cutting razors, between your teeth.
Damage done to the soul beneath.
Take it from your angry breath,
And ignore that tearing from my chest.
Keep your hands closed, don't you reach.
Endlessly the spite is heard.
Against my will I hold my word.
You hate, you hurt, you cry, you break.
Through this nightmare I'll stay awake.
How to deem what's so absurd?
Fanciful illusions drawn.
I can't explain why now you fawn.
Posies run, escape your hand.
As gentle songs compose the land.
Bring it on, the coming dawn.
Ignore what's right, I waited long
I held my tongue, I was so strong
Leaves flying in the wind belong
Like wishes in the well are gone.
I will not allow such persistent wrong.
Your love is hollow and signed by all,
'Dear John'.
Posted by
Nolan
2:54 PM
Alas the moments that do pass
Afore they wander from the past
And like the tipping of the glass
All is revealed through the dancing light
Undone is ruin like a blaze
Unveiling forth an auburn haze
Unbeknownst of warmer ways
Universal does man delight
Enticing wrapped up deed
Enough this bargain of the seed
Erupt to know before I read
Elaborative form said right
I do walk the path that sees below
I stop and stare before I go
I contrive my reason why I show
I hold no interest of renewal's sight
Posted by
Nolan
2:52 PM
The moon is my beacon,
And the stars are my prayers.
With heaven's back at me,
I walk head in the air.
Wishes aren't granted,
Only poorly conceived,
And dreams slip away,
Like drops in a sieve.
I am no child,
But I still need to believe.
Posted by
Nolan
2:52 PM
I must, I must,
do what's just.
Not for me,
not for us.
Stop fearing,
What you trust.
Words slowing,
To a hush.
Now I feel,
The sudden rush.
Taking hate's,
Evil thrust.
I still escape,
the deadly brush.
Virtue stands,
while being crushed.
A new day,
begins as thus.
Realize evil,
as it begins to gush.
Expel the black,
Blowing gust.
You must, you must,
Do what's just.
Posted by
Nolan
2:51 PM
"I am angry I feel lost!"
How many times have those words you crossed?
"I need your strength, show me your grace."
How many people have asked this to your face?
"Spare this life and save my love."
How many times did they look above?
"I will say in your name I pray."
How many did you allow to throw their lives away?
Now this next one's from me to you
"I'm not that smart I need a clue."
Out my mind
Out am said
Out thou right
Of thou head.
Steady reading
Wandering eyes
Glimpsing words
From out mouth rhymes.
Corners ending
In your smile.
Take my purity
Bliss beguiled.
Is it yours?
An effect of sorts
So the forces
Do report.
You had sighted
Simply seen
This person I
Have never been.
Without a claim
Unknown by voice
I die by name
Without a choice.
Madness do
What goodness shun
Lasting for
A game of fun.
Stop this
Stop this
End it all.
Something is not quite right.
It was not me, but clearly was.
I think I have a message
Apathy and sympathy
Sanctimoniously an epiphany
Dangerous and seemingly
No story fits this allegory
No feeling fills this unjust dealing
No moral code permits it so,
And still I wonder, nothing
Posted by
Nolan
3:06 AM
Why are you all I can see?
Why are you suddenly in my dreams?
Why are you all I can think about?
Why am I suddenly smiling at the thought of you?
When did this happen?
When did you start running through my mind?
When did you get to me?
When did you cast this spell over me?
What did you do to make me fall?
What did you say to take my breath away?
What did you do to make me look twice?
What did you say to make me stay up tonight thinking of you?
I don't usually fall.
I don't usually lose my mind over someone.
I don't usually take my walls down.
I don't usually let anyone in.
So why did I fall for you?
So when will my mind return to normal?
So what do I have to do, to rebuild those walls?
Maybe I wanted secretly to fall in love again.
Maybe you are the answer to my silent prayers.
Maybe you could be the one to change my world.
Maybe finding you, will turn out to be just what I needed.
Am I crazy for letting this happen?
Am I totally out of my mind for not stopping myself?
Am I going to regret this?
Am I only destined for another heartbreak?
I couldn't shut you out if I wanted to though.
I couldn't turn away from you now,
I couldn't break the spell that I've fallen under.
I couldn't walk away from this and not regret it every single day.
I hope in the end, I find myself with you.
I hope in the end, You turn out to be everything I've dreamed of.
I hope in the end, It's you whose arms I die in,
I hope in the end, It's you I've spent my life with.
Posted by
Nolan
3:06 AM
I think about you all the time,
To be perfectly honest,
Not a day goes by,
When you don't cross my mind.
You're different than others,
You make me smile when no one else can,
You make me laugh despite what the days brought,
No amount of life’s troubles could bring me down when you're around.
Looking back on life before I met you,
I don't know how I made it through a day without you,
Being with you, Spending time with you,
Brings about a entirely new meaning to life.
I might not be right there next to you,
I might not be able to hold your hand, or touch you,
To look into your eyes or hug you,
But that doesn't change the way that I feel about you.
So if I tell you all this, What happens then?
Would you or could you ever feel the same way back?
It's silly of me probably,
To stay up all night thinking things like that.
I can't seem to stop myself though,
From being lost in this daydream,
Of what it would be like if it was you and me.
I suppose it would help, If I knew how you felt.
Who knows what the future holds,
That's still a story left untold.
The point I'm trying to make, is I'm kind of falling in love with you,
And in the end, I hope you feel the same, I truly do.
Posted by
Nolan
3:05 AM
It wasn't wise to fall so hard,
When I knew I'd draw the loosing card.
It wasn't wise to love so deep,
When I knew your heart I couldn't keep.
I knew from the start,
That you would break my heart.
Too good to be true,
Same old story, nothing new.
But in you I thought I saw something different,
Something great, amazing and true.
Like a light that shone out so bright,
It could destroy the darkest night.
But one lesson I've learned all too well,
Friendship and love it's all nothing but hell.
Too good to be true,
Same old story, nothing new.
I'll hurt for awhile,
I'll mope and won't smile.
But I won't let this stop me,
You wait and you'll see.
Time to forget you,
And get back to me.
Too good to be true,
Same old story, nothing new.
Posted by
Nolan
3:04 AM
The eyes are staring, infinite in this night
Watching us together, judging if this is right
The midnight sun casts its silver glow
Dropping like arrows from a godly bow
A forest of trees now guards our love
Protecting us from that judgment above
The earth is our bed, as we lay down to sleep
But I'm caught in your eyes, like pools, so deep
We'll awaken in sunlight, with this memory fading
Though how I can forget you hair, cascading
Your near perfect skin, smooth to the touch
Remember I love you, almost too much
Let's forget tomorrow and the pain that comes
Let's live for tonight, this now that becomes
An everlasting love, to inspire for years
We'll always be together, through heartbreak and tears
Just never forget, as long as you live
I will always love you, with this heart that I give
In memory of this night
And the feeling,
So right
Posted by
Nolan
3:03 AM
Another sleepless night, sitting in the darkness,
Another sleepless night, wishing you were here,
Another sleepless night, wondering if you care at all,
Another sleepless night, wondering if you're crying too.
You are probably sleeping soundly,
While I'm left here wondering.
If just for a day, I could see your heart,
If just for a day, I could know what you say is true.
If just for a day, I could see from your eyes, your heart.
If just for a day, I could understand from your point of view.
In truth, Isn't that what we all wish for?
To know if the others heart is as true as our own?
I'll still love you, when you come back.
I'll still love you, even if it's not returned.
I'll still love you, no matter what you do to me.
I'll still love you.
If I'm a fool for that,
Then I guess a fool I will be.
I wish you could see from my eyes too,
Maybe you could understand then,
Maybe you could fathom the pain I've felt before you,
Maybe you would make the time for me then.
But you're obviously too busy for that,
God knows I wouldn't want to trouble you with my feelings.
I'll still love you though, regardless of anything.
I'll still be smiling and pretending everything is wonderful in the morning,
I'll still be pretending for you, so you won't have to see my tears.
I'll still laugh for you, live for you, and die for you.
I'll still love you
Posted by
Nolan
2:59 AM
I pray for the words
To say what will make everything fine
I stumble and mumble
You try so hard to smile, and cry
If nothing gets better,
Please tell me that things aren't gonna get worse
Suppose it don't matter
When everyone's feelings get hurt
Just so you know
With one wish that I know could come true
I'd take all my happiness
And make it a gift just for you
You hug tight
It's alright
I'm still here
By your side
I can't promise the freedom to choose a new life
This heart you give is still beating and breathing with mine...
In doubt
Without
Right as I leave
You are crushed to ground
But this too
Shall pass
A moment of weakness
In the love that we have
Faith with your love
Remember to keep both warm
Before you will know it
I'll come right back to our home
And we'll hold
One another
Again.
The Works of an Aspiring Artist
