Two-Face Existence

I am a masquerade
Living two identities
Here within the stage floor
Of our so-called society

I hold up two faces
Both are total opposites
But both exist together
For reasons untold

One was the face
Of love and light
Whilst the other
Of hatred and darkness

I never created the dark one
Somebody else had
Someone had breathed life
Into the horrible mask

Thus it devours wholly
You pretentious prudes
Paving the way neatly
For the one yet to be unfurled

To see what is hidden away
Is a privilege unknown
For it does not yet belong
To live within the chaos

Reality Bites

I am sinking
Into the abysmal void
For I find no escape
From the clutches of hardship

Little by little
My spirit slips away
For I am exhausted
With the never-ending twists and turns

I find no rest here
This is killing me
I wish for this masquerade
To close down its curtains

I shun this façade I wear
I have nary a care anymore
To the dismayed authorities
And the audience of hypocrites

No chains of yours
Can hold me down in hell again
No taunting about your lips
Can suppress my struggling soul once more

I cherish now the life
I had always wanted to live
This is the real me
And there’s no turning back

Poseur in Question

feels as if my life
is being sucked out
my day-to-day existence
holds no significance

what is it that i lack
am i a raven without wings
a portrait without color
a story without its ending

why do i hide from thy eyes
am i a rose without thorns
a turtle out its shell
a human in naked splendor

what is this emptiness i feel
am i a well without water
a mind without memory
a sky without its sun

what is it that i live for
i am incomplete
i am vulnerable
i am meaningless

what is before you now
is what you wish to see
if the truth is what you seek
learn first how to cope with it

Crow in the flock of Doves

trudging slowly
down this derogatory path
i felt like a crow
in the flock of doves

no sense of belonging
could be manifested
within this ill-infested
air of hypocrisy

much to my desire
i am outcasted
for i refuse to bow
to their overbearing power

i may be lost
in this mocking darkness
though i'm never weary to try
finding out my light

liberation is what i crave for
from their prying eyes
the unsolicited incriminations
and haughty state of mind

i had chosen to carve
a different course for myself
defying all the norms
rebelling against the odds

Death: Love/Hate

i am all alone
in this cold fortress
mourning for what it is
that i have lost

how i despise you
oh relentless death
for claiming what was
once mine to hold

my voice could no longer
be heard to where you are
though your greedy cackle
still rings fresh to my ears

my hands are of no use
it shan't reach you now
though your horrid stench
still lingers about

let me not suffer the loss
here in solitude
no words from around
could console me anymore

hearken what i beseech
oh merciless death
do not shut me out
invite me in

Shadow-Cloaked Knave

'tis coming near
giving way
to the rotting stench
of its maggoty flesh

hear the screams
from yonder below
the yawning pit
of remorseful voices

see the darkness
devouring you
by its endless abyss
of complete nothingness

feel the coldness
from around you
the decomposed earth
of the spoilt blood

eyes open wide
roaming freely
frantic glances
dilated pupils

death is there
cloaked by shadows
like a thief in the night
preying for your soul