I Think It Was The Title Of A Starflyer Album

Old Notebooks,
Full of different times and people.
Shock... Surprise... Sadness...
all fill the room with a tension
that fills the body just the same.

Old Lives,
Full of different versions of selves.
Young... Naive... Dark...
all fill the mind with a tension
that no longer exists and nothing's changed.

A Struggle For Truth

Closing in,
moving closer to a means to an end.
Giving up, giving in
Losing all to abstract ideas of friends.
Tell me more
Tell me lies where I believe it makes sense.
And I forget, I pretend
I know it's wrong, I choose my sentence.
The end game,
the start to everything I know is fake.
I buy in, I buy up
I live life unfulfilled and on the take.

When The Title Is Longer Than The Poem, It Is Time To Start Rethinking Things

Dark
Light
Mark
Fight
Night
Stark
Might
Bark
Pin
Sin
Win
Done

Text To Thoughts To Context

Another fork in road
Another choice to make
The fear fills my insides
Dread fills my heart to full
Hoping that it subsides
Now is the time to take
life back and come awake
Take the reigns, take the role
Live for more than auto-mode