(Dis)connected

Me and my many battery friends

We spend a lot of quality time

We communicate wirelessly

But hours somehow just fly us by

So then they are in need of a plug

And myself of some sleep, and a hug

 

The rower

Row, row, row your boat

Hurriedly up the stream

Fight your way through all

Life’s hell, bleak and grim

or

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Flow through life, keep floating

Don’t take it so seriously

 

Still mixture

Watch as water is penetrated by the ethereal air

So the fish can make bubbles there

Look upon the soft, fleeting water as it enters stone and rock

Them even the hard soil can’t block

 

Yet I still don’t allow anything different and new

To enter my life’s long queue

I never really walk my talk

But instead just squawk and squawk

Thus I will remain blue

Unbeknown to a rescue

 

 

Just a coward

It’s too hard to face the repercussions

Can’t explain it, when you need it the most

I must run away from the thoughts and emotions

I decide to disappear, turn into a ghost

You will deal with it in whatever way you can

Open honesty was never a part of the plan

 

 

Lovestuck

How did it come to this?

I let myself slip into the abyss

Stuck in this squalid place

of habits and suffocating embrace.

Happiness cannot be just some moments

Love should flow freely, and be constant

I know I have to get out and be free

If I want to live and rediscover – me.

But it’s so damn hard and scary!

What if I hurt you so badly?

And what if I am so selfish

For wanting to just be happy?

And for you to move on, I wish

That you finish this anguish and

Relinquish me, before I perish eventually

 

 

This is fine

I heard pessimists don’t have anything

And that optimists have nothing

Realist is teetering precariously in between

While searching for the ghost in the machine

Self-working should be one’s daily to-do

Accepting, trying, learning something new

 

Oh so, but you still don’t want to change bro

You say you’ve always been like that, strange tho

How everything’s just fine – until it’s not

When you least expect it, you’ll get shot

 

You have tied the knot, of your own noose, fool

By ignoring the signs, the warnings too

Personality overhaul was way overdue

 

 

For the hasteful ones

Hey there busy man/woman, looking pale and dizzy!

You know that you shouldn’t waste anything, right?

Any thing that’s not yours, is quite misplaced

Heavy things like water, minerals and fuels

But also light ones, like gases and jewels

And the only thing that truly belongs to you is time.

Fully and wholly to be pursued. It would be a crime

If even a little bit you would waste

When you permit yourself to such a haste.

 

 

Insomaniac

I’ve been concerned with who I am

But I want to know what I am

My life’s course has been getting “worse”

 

Now the dreamer seems more realer

Than the one who has awaken

The more I try to pry inside

I become disturbed and shaken

 

How to somehow find someone else

Cloaked in dreams and under a spell?

 

 

Identity crisis

So you think that you need

To live life at high-speed?

From office to the gym

Shouting national hymns!

Afraid of a failure so

Repeat old behaviours;

Must find a simple spouse,

Together buy a house,

While surrounding yourself

With new IKEA shelves.

Stay rooted there for good,

Make more copies of you.

Those are all just wants

Implanted by your folks.

Thus you lose and gain,

Then you lose again.

 

I wish that you could see

How unhappy you seem.

 

 

Maj. Riskowski

If you stay away from major danger

You’ll be a survivor from the minor

Hurt, but much stronger

In dirt, for no longer

 

 

Mistreated

What? You say why would you even bother?

A punching bag, taking hit after hit

You like to feel like worthless shit brother?

Don’t waste away, or wait for another fit

When it happens next time, you’ll be done with

Why would you let them treat you so badly

You are broken, yet you do it gladly

 

It’s a damn waste and a cryin’ shame, man

How you think it’s a happy-ending game

If you don’t care – then it’s really unfair

You know, when they go wrong, they’re all the same

Relationships, friendships, family alike

No matter the intentions, effort, pain

You can summon all your courage and might

Let them go, forgive and leave, no more fights

 

 

Change

The weather oh, it is a-changing

The north pole is becoming hot as hell

Countless species we are damaging

Let’s not extinct ourselves as well

How much damage we can sustain

When clouds turn grey with acid rain

Who will be to blame, us or them?

We all have a chance to make a change

But this change begins within ourselves

So dance like no-one’s watching, be strange

In order to rearrange yourself, you gotta do you

the best you can, while letting others do them,

Credit will be given where credit is due

When the time comes, you won’t feel blue

 

 

Festering

They said we need to dig into ourselves

In order to find… somebody else

But I’m afraid of what I might discover

That buried, hidden, shadowed another

While I pretend that all is fine and trifle

The devil finds employment for the idle

 

 

The Queen of Failures

From the ashes of my mistakes

I rise and proudly soar forward

Yet you are still too scared and shy

Afraid of failure and letdowns

You’ll get nowhere, with a heartache

Since you don’t want to seem awkward

Do not give up before you try

Take the risk, wear it like a crown

 

 

Misplaced

Once you start searching for the self

You then want what matters the most

Yet before you do find yourself

You must first get totally lost

 

 

Just another story

Why worry?

This too shall pass eventually

And you will regret feeling so sad

Your story

Is one of a million many

On this Pale Blue Dot that we have had

 

 

My secret recipe

Have low, or better yet no expectations.

Keep choosing pure natural ingredients.

Do it all simply and slowly, why the haste?

Taste often! Avoid creating any waste.

Then, enjoy fully every bite you take.

And oh, please do always remind yourself to

Accept mistakes you’ll eventually make.

‘Tis true you know – it’s okay to be messy bro

(and at times even immensely so)

 

 

Go for the gap

Happiness and joy are two very different things

Just like solitude and loneliness aren’t alike

There is a gaping contrast between love and lust

While wants and needs have always been so far apart

 

 

My mantra

Untroubled yet not indifferent.

Aware but not consumed.

Awake and alive!

 

 

Sir Fearnot Lovealot

When darkness is all you see as you look into future,

Replace fear with love.

When you’re petrified with fear, cold and neutral,

Replace fear with love.

When you feel like running away is the only solution,

Replace fear with love.

When anger and hatred engulf you in confusion,

Replace fear with love.

And when the unknown blurs the skies above,

Replace fear with love.

 

 

Thank you for your time

What to do when you spend your energy?

You have a quick nap, a long sleep – you rest

In order to do that, you need some time

You should also have other strategy

Which is to get some food, healthy is best

For food you need money, and for that – time

You say “It’s no biggie”, oh but it is

Giving the most precious gift of all gifts

 

 

My one regret

I don’t regret loving.

Even though my heart was so sore.

If I’d have to be sorry about something,

It would be… not loving some more.