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The Confusion of the World


I find myself between emotion and rationality

I do not care to search for love's reality

Yet at the end of the day I feel a bit reckless

Like my journey cannot end being selfless

 

For I seek something more than just feeling

The sake of a prayer is a bit appealing

But I shy away from religious healing

So I burst into flames while revealing

 

So I resist when instead I should shy away

From the reluctance that holds us this way

Cause when the tears roll down the side of my face

I don’t desire to understand why my heart has to race

 

Since the fear down inside could only implement

Although I couldn’t speak but to only resent

That I was raised to flourish and be intelligent

Yet the strength residing within was intermittent

 

Fluctuating at peaks and troughs just like waves

As others kept growing their destiny’s behaved

And as for I there is nothing worse than isolation

Left without the hope of a prospering aspiration

 

My mind's in a tangle without proper meditation

I'm boggled up yet facing stringent agitation

From an outside source that seeks to simply describe

The way a citizen can actually survive

 

Knowing of the pain and torture that we have to endure

Of the soldiers sent to death, fighting for obscene grandeur

To the differential perception of power in society

Just to decide which of the classes owned propriety

 

Over the way that the very people should be enslaved

Making them all animals to work and dig their own grave

But what is one to do when the world is all caving in

Nowhere to turn as veils are shrouding all the deception

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