Penmanship

What weapon holds the most potential?

To me, it is the pen

Though literacy may be essential

The effect is most telling then

With words one can easily slander

Twist truth and lies and ties together

With naught but strokes of ink and thought

Reality is changed forever

In print the flow of ideas is changed

Spun round and round as you will

Those who know not know all to know

Though they may not understand still

Though swords and guns can end your life

They cannot put end to your mind

For it will persist even if you cease to exist

When another reads your words in kind

But words are not weapons, in fact they are tools

Used for deeds both well and ill

They take up all spaces and reach many places

Until the “I”s all have their fill

Consider this page, and what it can do

What are you doing right now?

No matter who you are, no matter when it’s read

I’m sure I can guess somehow

You’re reading these words, some portion of me

You’re letting them through all defenses

You take what I give, so effortlessly

And let it change your pretenses

Consider the power I have in each line

Look what I can do with these words

“Now think of sweet candy! Now think of a lime!”

“Now think of all these things absurd!”

Though might may be right, it is thoughts that pull strings

To control the actions you take

I say pen over sword in all manner of things

With limitless things you can make

Social Network (3/6/12)

The lives of people and the bonds between

The threads of community’s ties

The trust and promises binding one another

The severance of betrayal and lies

The whimsical build and the pitying destruction

Which is worse in our eyes in the end?

The rival and antagonist that eggs us on?

The compliant and uninspiring friend?

Perhaps some things we can do without

Perhaps others benefit in ways unknown

Perhaps the cowardice of others can be the kindest gesture

Remember that naught’s set in stone

Remember that promises cannot last forever

Irony’s likely to turn against you in the end

The abandoned abandons those who would stand by their side

The lonely may reject a friend.

Yet despite all the things that may go awry

The fact is that life goes on

With ever nightfall, every twilight found in life

There comes another rising dawn

So forge ahead on your path, by your own compass you’ll see

A direction to take, a way you can be

Walking along as yourself, by your own energy

Strive along your life’s road, with the confidence that “I’m me”

Thoughts to live by, or merely a dream?

If only the hearts of all could be called together
If only we could see though eyes unclouded by hate
If only we could stand in many places and see the world from many places
If only we could accept sameness and differentness in the same breath
If only we could show our greatness without sacrificing the greatness of others
If only we could live as we should and live as we want to because they are one and the same
If only we could see to communicate, communicate to understand, understand to know, and know to coexist
If only...
If only

This was written with black rock shooter in the ears
Reverie metherlance in the heart
Ichinose kotomi in the mind
And one's own thoughts in the veins

This was written in the here and now, 
that which cannot ever be again,
but that which will always be evermore

This was written here
Deserving of no one's attention
Yet addressed to everyone
Yet no one in particular

This was written so that you could read it
Do with it what you will

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Inevitability (10/30/11)

Time will eventually change, and people will too

The reasons are many, the reasons are few

The person you are, your being through and through

Will eventually fade, replaced by something new

Though this subtle change may occur out of the blue

I assure you this fact leads to change you’ll renew

Come now, let’s all start anew

Changed Minds (10/30/11)

Paradigm’s gift and insight’s light

Exposure to one for many’s too bright

Yet indulgence in the other leaves reason in night

The balance between is my ideal sight

The foundation of belief and paradigm thought

That intrinsic relief at all that’s been wrought

The view of another and their paradigm too

Understanding of each other, learn a perspective that’s new

To the Flock (10/30/11)

To be true to oneself is the epitome of will

The culmination of free thought for all

The decisions of oneself in form and being

Answer to none but your own call!

Fear not the gaze of hostile soul

Shy not from desire and thought

Though sheep you may be, have not a stern shepherd

Be the law under which you’ve been caught!

I Personally feel that this is complete bullshit (10/29/11)

The idea of an IP is the ID of one’s property, 

yet the controversy is inherently over the legitimacy of what we see 

(with covers and tributes and fans)

Yet to be aggressive over how possessive some feel they have been messed with is simply reflexive, 

until naught but tyranny remains 

(with censors and felons and bans)