/ quick breaths /

can you breathe?
can you see,
beyond yourself?
your dreams, live free
trapped no more
inside
the mind
mixed messages
stale hopes
flooded with stimuli
mostly lies,
save blue skies
that, too, fade
amongst wilted,
deferred dreams
to settle for this
screams insanity lives
and truly thrives
who among you
nay, us
will fly above 
muted cries
to be an unseen dream
to savor inactive experience

drenched with love
covered then
and now with hate
failing to embrace
such life beyond
life, and inhale
death abundant
why reach to attain
daily we are
just and all
who fell that
you did not catch
the rhythm of
your own - we
are i and 
that i were blind
can still see visions
through clouded lenses
of those claiming 
20-20 - doubled
in delusion
diluted saviours
of a dying world
living is...but

distorted reflections
allow us to claim
and swallow lengthy
tangents to elelvate
truths that move only
further from that 
it assumes
movement from grooves
men and women
resting reliance do choose
before it was chosen
forcing one away from
that which moves toward
all that is
one self
concentration waning
too much complaining
fuck off, this rock
you fail to open eyes
blessed to be given
for tumult and beauty
yet to witness truth
and injustice, just us
no crutch - seeking still