Rhyme and Reason: A poet's favorite season
BenjaminHopps · 16 chapters · 4,268 words
Land of the Damned
Land of the Damned
I walk down these halls
Trying to find a room with no walls
Broken and close to being beat
A fatherless child I seem to be
A bastard, for I am, is the term I’ve come to grips with
Also as in this reality, I also am in a loveless relationship
With the one whom I love most in this life
To think I had hopes to have her as my wife
I walk down these gloomy halls
Trapped in a world with barred walls
Living with this Demoniac
Whom I am supposed to call dad
I consider him a son-less father,
But let’s not forget his tyrant of a daughter
And my emulous mother
Waging war with my fascistic lover
I walked down these caged halls
Trying to find a room with no walls
A place with no cells
An exit from this hell
This prison I live in sin
Trapped with this Dysfunctional kin
But what do I feel inside my bones?
A hate filled demon lies dormant in my soul
Waiting to break through these wretched walls
hoping to destroy these caged in halls
To find peace of mind, my Shiloh
I must crawl out of this deprecated hole
But I remain in this place so unhallow
Trapped in this Land of the Damned,my Home
Thoughts of Depression and Insanity
Glimpse inside my Head
There is a man who lives inside me
He tears at my heart every time he speaks
One wish is to let him take a leave
For he has made my eyes bleed
The crimson overtakes my vision I can not see
I cry out for a memory
A time that was so clean
A flawless moment of purity
It is this time that has ended due to me
And my adulterated insanity
Depression from Ire
Deep behind these anger filled eyes
There is a tormented boy who tends to cry
Crying out for the forgotten times
Becoming ire, he screams at the sight
Seeing he falls for the lies
Surrendering is the boy on the outside
Black Sky
You are my black sky
My only black sky
You make me gloomy
When times are bright
You know I hate you
My only black sky
You will be the cause of my suicide
Valley of Ashes
Valley of Ashes
I go to a place, a place of which I call home
A place of memory that cannot be erased
The Valley of Ashes is where I roam
Valley of Ashes
For this is my Kingdom
Where I am able to look through the past
For I am not alone
Remembrance of times that couldn’t last,
Lost memories and flashbacks are welcome.
They swim through the ash.
When they rise they are as clear as glass
Here in the valley, a slogan we have
“Remember the good times forget the bad”
It seems I can’t remember the good times
I try hard to forget the bad
I try to forget the lies, as well as the times that were crass
But the bad times seems to be all I had
I live in the center
In the Valley’s heart
Remembering is my mentor
What he teaches is hard
For I am the tree
In the heart of ashes
The tree of memory
Memories unfold in the leaves of my branches
I am easy to see
I’ve grown big and can not be burnt with matches
My roots are the bad times I keep beneath
They grip tight to my trunk; oh, how it wrenches
They will never leave it seem
No matter what happens
They are my roots of depression
Underneath this Valley of Ashes
Feelings
Paranoia
Vol. 1 of 5
I can not break free the noise
Of the shouting boy
The nemesis in me
He is one of bestial manner
I can not control his savage behavior
He plants and grows images in me
I can not help but see
The images in my mind; so disturbing
Such torment he bestows onto me
He causes me to gain relentless rage
When he is not making my already empty heart bleed
He is taking the only peace I gain
Paranoid that the once better days will leave
He pushes the paranoia though the inner chambers of my brain
Leave it be I say to he
Leave me with my memories
But he will not leave me be
This is what frightens me
The images will never leave
This too brings the tremble to my knees
My dry cracking heart continues to bleed
And thus far I can’t help but be paranoid
From the noise of the shouting boy
Paranoia
Vol. 1.5 of 5
Gray skies fall over the greedy peers
What calms the monster
better than a murder’s tears
With a Hunger for vengeance
from an absent crime
Her heart is mine he yells
her heart is mine
But to whom gets the beautiful rose
None but another man he thinks
It seems paranoia grows
This supposed man she loves
A friend to the dormant foe
A wolf in sheep’s cloth
As the expression is told
The woman he loves
A love simple and true
She once saves his life
A regret she can’t undo
He tries to make her happy
He tries to make her stay
but with disgust on her lips
she says not today
He sees her love go to the open arms of a friend
What isn’t there he sees
And thus the beginning of the end
Blinded, Paranoia has made him crass
With no other option apparent
he has gone mad
Splintered is his crippled mind
Between thoughts of guilt
Is a yearning for homicide…
With soft sighs in a moments breath
The clock struck midnight
And his hands dealt death
A corpse now lays
Where a friend once was
His faux nemesis covered in blood
From jealous thoughts come bitter rage
Murderous hands leave a bitter taste
Will he ever put paranoia in its cage…
Not today she said
Not today
Helpless
Vol. 2 of 5
I feel so helpless
How may I be of service?
I feel so helpless
I know not the advice to give
I feel so helpless
Why do you cut your skin?
I feel so helpless
Please stop cutting, just live
I feel so helpless
I hurt the deeper you get
I feel so helpless
Do thou know you are committing a sin?
I feel so helpless
So much sadness hides within
I feel so helpless
Please do not leave little kin
Stay with me
I feel so helpless
I cry all night; never do I sleep
I feel so helpless
Afraid to wake and find you dead
I feel so helpless
Let me help with the stress
I can’t seem to rest
Thinking I am helpless
Proud
Vol. 3 of 5
How can I make you proud?
Why do you yell so loud?
To hear I love you; a wonderful sound
I only hear it when you’re drunk and down
No matter what I do it is always wrong
I know you want me just to be gone
Out of this house is the song
This is sung to me
But do not fret father, please
Soon I will be old enough to leaves
Only to be hoping in secrecy you will stop me
But no hope is left while I am in your house
Please don’t yell at me so loud
I just wanted to make you proud
Unwanted
Vol. 4 of 5
I used to feel unwanted
As though I were drifting
I felt so unwanted
Washed away by the sea
I used to feel unwanted
Though you had lost you love for me
I felt so unwantedI always was paranoid about thee
I used to feel unwanted
I can now see clearly
I am longer drifting
I no longer feel unwanted
So Enclosed
Vol. 5 of 5
Enclosed
So enclosed
I keep my feelings in this dreary house
I am the locked door
If unlocked there is a sight so sore
As outside eyes looking in at me
What do they see?
Do they see a mindless zombie?
Or simply human with no soul
I have to keep enclosed
So enclosed
For if the inside is unleashed
A burden it will be
To whomever opens me
I wish I could be a zombie
Or one with no soul
It would be a prize
Compared to what truly lies
Breathes behind this locked home
The stress to be enclosed
So enclosed
It is a burden in its own
I cannot allow anyone to see
These terrible feelings in me
They are but ones so terrible
Although I know it is my toll
To be a zombie with no soul
To me I have to be enclosed
So enclosed
Flower of Life
Flower of Life
I found out what make me hate
It is the insanity in my brain
There is death gripping at my veins
Though this insatiable rage
I slit his throat and watch the scarlet drain
The pressure centered in my chest remains
Until his flower of life wilts and fades
And hither death blooms with such grace
My hate then seems to fade
Until a few days pass away
I then wake late
Just as the moon began to rise and thus the end of day
I hear a heartbeat not wanting to fade
This beating comes from his grave
This grave of which I did create
A flower sprouted right where he lay
Could this be true or do my eyes betray
The beating grows louder with each second I waste
So with no time to hesitate
I grab forth the shovel in a tense harsh way
I start franticly rushing toward the terrain
As the beating gets louder yet again
Then as I shovel up the dirt it begins to rain
As I slosh the now muddy remains of the grave
Whispers arise in my brain
And it starts again I am once more insane
It seems that his flower of life remains
The whispers are clear as glass
And are as before the same
Such a regretful past
It is him whispering he is the best
And with the sound of my nemesis
I start digging more frantic
For the pressure is back in my chest
I get to his body it is no longer fresh
He is now hard and stiff
But though he seems dead
He still whispers in the back of my head
He is the best
Infuriated I set my dogs on the cold body of my nemesis
I watch as they rip their teeth into his flesh
After I clean up the mess
The pressure leaves my head
Although still drenched I lay in my bed
The insanity hides again
Inside my brain
I have found what makes me hate
Fingers of Destruction
Fingers of Destruction
Why do I break everything I touch?
Why do I hurt everyone I love?
I wish to take a blade and cut
Cut off these fingers of destruction
They are my burden
I do know I need them
Indeed to strangle him
To put an end
To all of this sin
I have dealt with
I wish to use them
These fingers of destruction
To cut him out of my skin
But he has his mind of corruption
And through it
I cannot win
Even with my fingers of destruction
He has me pinned
Against this wall of seclusion
He has my wrist
As he cuts away the skin
He says these wounds no one man can mend
They only get worse as time comes to an end
He harms me and others with my fingers of destruction
It is that I do trust no one
And for myself I have neither lust nor love
For my dreams I had are now dust
From my fingers of destruction
Oh I wish to cut
Cut away the fingers of destruction
Oxidize them to rust
So I will not break everything I touch
Stranger to No One
Stranger to No One
I have a secret that couldn’t last
Though a friend’s pain came to pass
Death is bitter, life is crass
As angels embrace a kindred soul
I wish she never had to let go
Of the boy from Monaco
If birth is proof of heaven
Then hell is death’s brethren
And loss cause tears to leaven
Pain is now released
For the recently deceased
Suffer no more, rest in peace
To all he showed friendship
And even though I didn’t know him
He is a stranger to no one in the end
Lossing Faith
Loss of hope
As soon as we are all born we begin to die
As we grow we are filled with lies
Lies that spill out over time
We are simply the dead carcasses that life devours
Life is no better than death
I often do wish to take my last breath
Life is no more than an infection
I often just sit waiting, praying for it to fade
As it slowly goes away
Into this scar to remind us of the once had pain
Faithless Man
Carry not, her soul
It is god who deserves to be buried
Who wears the cries to show?
Misery in me
It’s a mystery
I would gladly sell my soul
To the one who could save her?
When the systems crash
Go on reach out for your goal
Make me suffer
With shards of tainted glass
They cut right through my being
No apologies
Take ME lifeless on the slab
To God’s palace
Please let ME take her place
Let MY spirit fade
In this wooden box
Let MY body rot
Under dirt
I am cursed
A holy betrayal in God’s hands
As true as I stand
In this condemned land
We are all damned
In the end
Your God is absent
And I’m just this faithless man
Asking for a bargain
Let her live, take all I am
Life in the Making…
Life in the Making…
Remembering
I remember when I was young
I got lost at Disney land
I was frightened by the mascots and all the loud songs
It was then I was found by the ice cream man
He watched over me until my grandma came along
She took me by the hand
She had said right beside her is where I belong
As she told me this her tone made me think she was mad
I then could tell by the look in her eyes she was sad
Yet after finding me, she also seems glad
After thanking the ice cream man we left off straight back to mom and dad
Life in the Making…
Getting Older
As time passes by I find myself getting bolder
As these days get colder
I too have gotten bitter with time
Wishing to find the past and crawl inside and hide
Yes as these times get colder
I too get better as I get older
Life in the Making…
What does the Future Hold?
There you go
I will be right here waiting
All alone
Hoping for what I am craving
I have this hole
But the good times never leave me
I shall never know
What it is that the future holds?
The World I Live In/ Colors of a socieital decay
Fiction
(In regards to the Colorado shooting)
What world is this
The raven asked the bat
Fans receive deaths kiss
As bullets are spat
Reality grants fiction’s wish
Broken are the bat’s wings
As the raven screams blame
It turns to a pheonix
The night is now in flames
Murder is the song it sings
With no rhyme or reason
The comedians joke is death
Insanity is in season
Lambs rush away from the jest
As he commits treason
All peace is dead
When the joker knows our fears
Such sadness spreads
When fiction sheds blood and tears
Black White and Red
Lost and found rotten
Is the world of past
Loathed bound or forgotten
These tales of bigots forever last
Riddled is this life with decay
We are here we are now
The world of today
Has let me down
If there is no peace
And chivalry is dead
Then true is the world is see
One of black white and red
Blackened be the dawn
White is a pure life…rare
Red is hatred of the pawn
In this world of despair
Godless
Time withers pain
Or so some say
Harm always survives
If not in the body
than in the mind
Taught we are to settle
For loss
For sorrow
For End
We forever battle
For what cause?
For tomorrow?
For kin?
What a godless world we all live in.
Fable of Shades: All but Gray
Once spoke a story
A tale brought by shame
From the depths of purgatory
Black and white came
Black was the mind
White was the soul
Ash made mankind
If spirit made them whole
This creature thinks
Such things as death
And as Black blinks
Tainted their souls are left
His beloved soul
Left she is unreal
As black spoke
His words feeble
Render me useless
Left with none but grays
I’ve sent her helpless
Dirt covered she lays…
The purest of white
And Black as night
These be a Fable of Shades
All are gone
All but grays
Boars and Cattle: The Horrors of life we must battle
Cattle and Concrete
As the rich get richer and the poor begins to fill,
The middle class strive to get ahead but are left at a standstill,
Life is a Bitch and if your lucky you might marry one,
Meanwhile the taste of gunmetal lingers on desperate tongues,
Most are tempted by the trigger as their eyesight goes red,
Those tired of life rest soon after the penatration of lead,
Then there are the rest of us; Cattle starving for green,
There are few ways to get ahead in this world of Concrete
Love and War
What’s in a name?
Is it who a man was or what he became?
What happened to our childhood games?
No more hide and seek, times have changed.
We are thrown into a world so strange.
In this war for survival, we are left estranged.
Our gilded moments have all but gone away.
The lines between us have been laid
We now walk separate paths day by day
Is this love? I dare not say.
We are careened to slave for minimum wage.
Struggling until we meet our grave,
These are the times of a deserate man.
There is one place for us in these new world plans.
We the people; sacrificial lambs,
We are nothing, cattle to these corporate boars.
Who says all is fair in love and war?
The way it is and The way it should be
The world i know
why I write this poem I do not know
Maybe it’s cause it’s a way for me to let go
Of this the world i know.
Why do I want to let go?
Probably due to the reasons in the blog I last wrote
Things from money to madness
From having nobody and sadness.
To hateing everybody and having this lack of rest
From wishing I had a lack of stress.
To having this lack of sex.
Because I won’t let my heart break more than once.
I haven’t had a woman in months
and I use to think it was just a myth
but now I know what it means to have “blue balls.”
I’m getting tired of beating off.
I’m ashamed of having these extra hairy palms.
And I have this lack of funds
I’m so poor I can’t have fun with anyone. Money probably isn’t the reason why I hang out with no one
It’s because everyone hates
But we’re supposed to hang out one of these days
To tell you the truth I can’t wait
Until then I guess i’ll continue wasting away
Why am I writing this poem
To let go, I do not know
It probably has alot to do with the world i know
The world below
We should all have hope
We should all hold on close
To those we love the most
I wish it could be like the old west where people looked out for others
And money wasn’t a bother
We all could just live off the land
I also wish that there was no sex drive
that way there wouldn’t be stress on a lonely mans hand
And besides
Then my balls wouldn’t look like there is a civilization of smurfs inside
I guess I want the world below to be realized
I want love for everyone to survive
I want to walk up to a stranger in my life and tell them I love them with no lies
They wouldn’t be surprised and return a gesture with a smile
Then we would hug for a while
As though we knew eachother all of are lives
Like we were intertwined
That is the world I want to know
The world below
Fact versus Fiction
Fact
life is shitty
Fiction
life is pretty
Fact
i’m a jackass
Fiction
i care about the feelings u might have
Fact
all human beings are fuckups in my eyes
Fiction
someday all men will keep peace in mind
Fact
nothing will ever change for the better
Fiction
happiness will find u wherever
Fact
there are no such things as feilds of dreams
Fiction
Dreams don’t just happen while asleep
i wish to go away
to that place
in my mind
where i could live life
no facts attached
Love Appropriatley
LOVE is…
LOVE is a fucking lie
LOVE is a fucking waste of time
LOVE is not kind
LOVE is a fucking joke
LOVE is a way to get tears to flow
LOVE is a way to get your heart broke
LOVE is a fucking pain
LOVE is to blame
LOVE is hate
LOVE is…
Upside to heartache
What is the upside to heartache?
There is no upside you say
Well i beg to debate
See after all the pain…
After all the bullshit goes away
Well…truth is it never fades
Your heart just becomes numb to it
And your head gets dumb to it
You then realize
You can’t even cry
You can’t shead a f**king tear
No emotion to show these peers
You feel like a total jackass
When you’re by people full of sadness
You can’t show the tiniest speck of remorse
You should be happy, it could be worse…
Infact u could have just enough pain
That your heart can’t fake
It’s ok to belive promises they make
Those lies they intend to keep you take
Because you are numb to the never fading pain
And that is the upside of heartache
Of All the Stupid Rules
Marching, Soldiers cross enemy lines
Badge of authority stained by lies
Floors made of eggshells force toes to tip by
Fear of all the stupid rules we must abide
Politics wear their dicks on their sleeves
Fucking “we the people” with revelry
While sinners pray for their toxic remedy
Saints preach of all the stupid rules of an absent deity
Be it the dreams of death or dulcinea
whispers of both, thoughts of sweet amnesia
infections spread through ideas
Mouths of others force feed diarrea
The World I see, a feculent pool
Money forces we sordid swines to duel
This is life, power given to close-minded fools
Of all the stupid rules
Amorality
Ignorance the woes you are the world
Innocence stolen from the youth
Fucked you are whores, legs unfurled
Tucked broken, lies cover the truth
Humanity begotten chaos
From the start infancy a mistake
Vanity forgotten not
Until the end, litany of bigots and fakes
Sodimize the saints
who speak not of salvation
Sleep, as murderous paints
Spill over this nation
Amoral am I
Council for the bawdy
knowing truly, genocide
never hurt anybody
Cleanse the Filth
Burning hues of vibrant yellow and red
Destruction comes to this world in the form of humanity
Never-ending chaos and dread
As we construct ourselves as fallen angels to create vanity
Where is the truth
Where is the end
Gone it is here
under the flesh
Decaying meat
The truth is death
When I ask
When
Will we be wiped clean by sweet oblivion
Please Bleach free the stain of life
When will we become silence
When will you see hindsight
Let corpses litter the ground
The world needs its sleep
Let her live or burn in peace
When will it end
When I ask
When
Freedom of Freedom
Freedom of Freedom
Taking the blow, my siren screams fall on lame ears
Do I speak from a silent mind?
Or do we take the rapping with masochistic pleasure
We are given a freedom barren from truth and bursting of lies
Men of honor send innocence to Satan’s abyss
While a patriotic anarchist’s words are cast aside
Middle class is cast into gutters of shit and piss
So men given stature can bleed the finance of a nation dry
Mothers end their unborn children to free them of life
In Regards to the fate of the fetus
A regrettable yet appropriate homicide
Rape is forgiven and theft is overlooked
And we the free remain so long as we obey these crimes
Heinousness underlying the laws set
To benefit those who wrote them
What we need is a freedom of freedom
Says a man dying against his better judgment
Freedom from that which makes us slaves
Freedom…a virtuous word with no meaning, neither in this life nor on this day
Will we ever truly have a choice?
Until death a freedom false remains
The man brings his rotting corpse to rest
As the deceiving light in his eyes fade
He whispers his last breathe
King of my kingdom come
Grant me freedom my lord…
…freedom

