Should?

Some part of me is dreaming

Am I wide awake inside?

Somewhere in the dark I’m screaming

Nowhere to confide

This little break of isolation

Lost out in the crowd

In my soul the incantation

I can’t speak aloud

There’s so many times I’ve wanted to

Say what’s in my heart

This churning, raging, misbehaving

Yearning, burning spark

What I know inside so contrary

To everything I see

Makes me question so simply

What is reality?

And the echoes rattle in my head

Falling back to fitful sleep

Was there something more I should have said

In these secrets that I keep?

Opinion

Words are a venom that will demonize

Haunting the footsteps of those who enable

Themselves to take the path to immortalize

Those whispers through this world

Captivate, to expose the lies

Freedom in oppression

Thoughts are unstable

Religion isn't here to immortalize

It's to push away the world

Old gods are replaced where we itemize

Opinion is doctrine, don't speak so wise

Facts hold no place here anymore

What we believe is what should exist

And where we disagree so soon should perish

There's no more room for discussion

Hate rules the day

As we spit venom guised as progress

Thoughts shatter deeper, intrude into your lives

You've no right to live if we don't decree it so

So much hatred for the other side

Who used to do what we do now...