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Apologia Pro Poema Sua

I wish to offer my sincere apologies to all for any offence caused by by my previous post, which I have duly deleted.

The tide of evil deeds and lies of those who claim to speak for me, a British Citizen, sickens and angers me beyond belief, and it threatens to overwhelm me.

So, for the sake of my mental health, I have decided to rest, to take a step back from the canvas.

The picture (jus...

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justice   lies   mental health

Ukraine Trilogy

Gibberish

 

If all those dying in the fray

Were laid from end to end,

They would stretch for many a mile

And no doubt grievously offend,

Behind their desks so far away,

The same men talking gibberish

With a sickly, spray-on smile.

 

As it happens

 

No one needed to die today

But, as it happens, sixteen did.

Of the usual bagged variety:

Men, women and so...

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Hope   Invasion   Lies   Resilience   Suffering   Ukraine   War

21st Century Bullshit Detector [SONG VERSION]

21st Century Bullshit Detector

 

In the House Of Commons avoiding the answers

Slogans and deflections from a bunch of chancers

Instead of the speaker go ahead and erect a

21st Century Bullshit Detector

Right and the Left are on the attack

Journalist’s frustrated cos they don’t know Jack

Is he Jesus Christ or Hannibal Lector

21st Century Bullshit Detector

 

Bullshit...

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corrupt politicians   fake news   lies   new world order   press confusion

Determination

Hypocrites riding horses on the lies they told 

 

I want money back for every sold soul  it’s a sad story 

 

And it has to told in a single family home 

 

Why the sun don’t shine and kiss me like it used to 

 

Those summer days turned into winter nights 

 

I don’t like the way it’s seasoned 

 

Actors or benefactors which one

 

Behind a mask and lies anyone...

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forgivness   last   lies   loneliness   Tired

News atrophy

Thunderous bolts of lightning every morning

Gazing at a screen, still learning

Chess pieces move devoid of doubt

An evil kettle spews from its hot spout

 

News of the mighty, judging so rightly

Dastardly and Mutley chase us so justly

 

This is not the breakfast I was prescribed

Hot eggs of death on a buttered lie

Where's that decaffe coffee I can't find?

 

When ...

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breakfast   coffee   eggs   food   lies   morning   news   trust   truth

Aftermath

The aftermath? Sounds promising, but wait -

It’s far too messy, a lot like hard work.

A non-stop, glamour-light slog:

There’s the rubble, the charred remains,

The peacekeeping, the building back.

Keep clear, if you know what’s good for you.

And the time – months, years. No one cares.

No more kudos here; the news moves on.

 

The aftermyth is a better bet:

A slick turn ...

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Lies   Peace   Reconstruction   Self-promotion

Speyk Lanky Twang! [ Fascists Eawt! English not Spoken Here!]

In a desperate effort to outdo the racist bigots who, we are led to believe, currently threaten his ratings, PM Kier Starmer has carried out an egregious attack on the freedom of speech of UK citizens, and an overt incitement to racial abuse.

In doing so, he has displayed an astonishing ignorance of the diversity of languages currently spoken by natives of the British Isles: Cymraeg (Welsh); Ke...

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beer   Cornish   English   Gaeilge   Lancashire   Lancashire dialect   lies   Manx   Scots   Starmer   the sun   Welsh

Porky

This is the age of the porky;

This is the age of the lie.

Big men who wield power

No longer even try

To utter one word

Which might just be true.

They know they don’t need to;

They’re laughing at you.

 

They’re laughing at you

Because you lap it up,

As if you read tea leaves

In their plastic cup.

They make up the numbers,

They make up the quotes,

They’re...

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Economy with the truth   Lies   Spin

Trump

Oh, supreme maestro of chaos well devised
Thou who dost turn falsehoods into legacy prized
Thy hair, the clouds of a kitsch tempest wild
Thy suit, a shield 'gainst truths that are reviled

"Make America great again!" thou dost proclaim
Whilst selling dreams wrought with horror and shame
Thy walls are verses in blind poetry penned
That part and divide, yet intrigue to no end

Thou, who sp...

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chaos   day   democracy   fable   frgile   hands   ironic   kitsch   lies   maestro   shame   shield   true   Trump   verses   walls

Time for our X-odus!

In defiance of the forces that manipulate and suppress, this poem calls for an "uprising" to defend truth and our freedom of speech, against the forces of censorship, fake news and misinformation led by Musk, Trump and his rebellious, subversive henchmen. Musk’s efforts to restrict or abolish "Community Notes" threaten the very foundation of truth and free expression on his platform  threat...

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algorithms   censorship   free speech   freedom of the press   lies   Musk   propaganda   rebellion   resistance   Trump   truth   X-odus   Zelensky

Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm [The World As I See It]

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is not allowed,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm enjoy cheap thrills,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, I’m well-endowed,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, a bottle of Pils,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, upon my knees,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, the seven seas.

 

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, my boots did shine,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm the milky way,

qwertyuiop...

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boots   cheap thrills   dance   dismay   flood   food   Galway Bay   knees   lies   milky way   play   thought

The Stage of Deceit

Donald Trump Jr. resorts to grotesque manipulation in his latest PR stunt in Greenland, exploiting the homeless and downtrodden to create an illusion of support for his father. This cold-hearted scheme reveals a family willing to go to any lengths for a false image—no matter how embarrassing or degrading. The staged scenes in Nuuk, with homeless people wearing MAGA hats for a free meal, expose a d...

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corruption   deceit   exploitation   false facade   Greenland   hypocrisy   integrity   lies   MAGA   manipulation   moral decay   political theater   PR stunt   scandal   shame   Trump family clan   Trump Jr.

Haiku for 2025 [No. 3. What change?]

Government snow: lies,

shallow as their promises,

newly-fallen, melts.

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government   lies   promises   snow

Placebo effect

Your love is the most strenuous placebo effect.

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fake love   lies   love   lovers

Nostalgia

Your nostalgia is lying to you.

Life is hard now,

But it was hard then, too.

You were just younger, dumber, more care-free.

If you knew then what you know now,

Maybe then you'd see.

You'd see the heartache;

You'd see the pain;

You'd see the way they lie and shame;

You'd see that no matter what you do,

You're always going to be you.

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depression   growing up   heartache   introspection   lies   life   mental health   nostalgia

No Angel

You say you're "no Angel"

And we're left in a tangle

Words expressed with feeling

Still searching for their meaning


Does this give you a license so freeing

You can do whatever without stressing?
Responsibilities old and frayed

Distressed, dismayed and betraying

 

Keeping everything so tightly wound

Is bound to cause a rupture

Spewing the pain you strive the concele

...

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Angel   deceit   lies

Thoughts of the wife of a pedophile

Maybe not the healthiest thing 

But the healthiest I ever had

 

Such a prince charming you seemed, with

 your white van for a steed. Full of recovery 

stories and what seemed like integrity.  

 

Not perfect for sure, an anger problem and unnaturally, unwarranted high self esteem. Yet still better, more together and healthier 

than I had ever been.

 

So many nuggets of...

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Broken families   deception   family   lies   lost love   pain   pedophile   sad   wife

Temporaries

You were supposed to be temporary.

A Mr. Right Now

But you were so persistent when I was so hesitant.

You opened your arms when I shied away.

So believe me when I say, that it hurt to be betrayed. 

You looked me in the eyes when you told your bold face lies. 

I wanted to believe you, I almost believed you, because deep down I didn't want to lose you. 

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Heartbreak   lies   life   temporary

Veneer

Every night I go to the dentist,

He's left the light on,

For me and the moths,

This kind of consideration is rare,

Like a happy medium,

Maybe it's exclusive to spiritual types,

Then again, maybe not.

 

It always strikes me how insane we are,

In our hopeful repetition,

We call it perserverance,

Like when a dog marks it's territory,

Is an accident,

Thinking tha...

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dreams   lies   poetry

Blue Sheets

the tears are gone

her eyes are dry

dawn breaks unblinking in the sky

 

I've confessed all

my conscience clean

surprised she did not make a scene

 

all those women

the casual lies

yet no questions or fluttering whys

 

no hint of shock

her sheets are blue;

I told her what she already knew

 

she'd sucked it up

loved me so much

forgiven all just f...

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bed   betrayal   forgiveness   lies   love   sheets   tears

They are just words

Don't tell me you're there for me when you're not. 
Don't tell me you care for me and leave me to rot. 
Don't tell me you're kind and think only of your self. 
You're not who you claim when you damage my minds health.
Do not say you understand but then dismiss me completely.
How can you do this when I'm hurting so deeply?
Do not pretend to be the caring person you say you are.
...

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liar   Lies   pain   unhelpful   words

Behind the Smiles

Behind the lies and painted smiles

Lies wounds that cannot heal

The tormented ache of a forgotten world

And a heart that can no longer feel

 

The outward laugh, a forgotten touch

Defy the darkness inside

The horror of a mind debauched and lost

In a pool of tears, uncried 

 

A quick embrace and wanten love

Beleaguered by apathy and grime 

A soulless mess, a repul...

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brooding   Dark   evil   lies   nasty

Busted Jag

Sliding through the fog with your 

Illusions of finery

I saw the check engine light when I got in

But your cracked windshield distorted my vision

All I could see was how I felt when

Your leather interior 

Hugged and kissed 

And caressed my body

The cute dates at cute restaurants

Sangria and Seafood

Lies covered in parmesan cheese

Lying about past lives

Lying on ...

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broken   cars   dating   emptiness   lies   lust   rose colored glasses   wishful thinking

Will

Will you raise your voice for the oppressed

Will you demand Governmental redress

Will you speak on things that truly matter

Will you allow this illusion to truly shatter

Will you plant the seeds in the ears of youth

So they can discover the yield of truth

Will you speak up Will you scream

Will you have faith Will you dream

Will you turn up your volume for the silenced

Wi...

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bravery   dream   faith   free will   God   God willing   justice   knowledge   lies   oppression   truth   Will   youth

Political Irrigation!


(Wrote during the post Brexit
 vote debacle)

Ahh democracy!
What a wonderful thing!
The freedom of a vote that counts
Makes my lickle heart sing!

The Magna Carta, the 2nd Reform
The start of our foundations
The principles of all free worlds
The lifeblood of our nation 

The Suffragettes - great heroines
Spilled blood to earn the right
They would not bow or break or bend
Or fade...

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Brexit   lies   Politics

Inconsequential Madness

Fires seething, breathing, spewing forth
Molten vulgarities unto this earth,

Feeding on the despair and indifference of
A society that has rid itself of all those things
Which are true and good,

Nothing is intolerable anymore, for the flames
Have consumed all, beggar and borrower alike,
And smothered nature's sight,

For the heart which cannot see shall be mute to
All that could open...

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despair   Fear   intolerance   lies   trump

Modus Operandi

Deny, deny, deny,

modus operandi, 

when caught in a lie.

Can pass a polygraph 

while looking you in the eye. 

Knowing what’s done in dark

eventually comes to light, 

until such time,

deny, deny, deny!  

 

https://youtu.be/hv_zJrO_ptk

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darkness   lies   light   Relationships   truth

TRYING..

She was trying

Trying to be calm

Trying to mute the

Monologue inside her mind.

 

Full of contradictions to herself,

Full of arguments

Full of endless thoughts

 

She felt like being pulled

In a spiral

Down and down and down

With each breath she took

Swallowing her own soul

 

As if she split up

Into two halves

Halves against each other

She was he...

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anxiety   contradictions   creative   dark   deep   depression   emotions   hurt   invisibility   lies   Life   mentalillness   misery   moments   pain   poem   poetry   Real   reality   spirals   unnoticed   writing

Lil Ray of Sunshine

Lil Ray of Sunshine

Yeah it's been longer than a minute,
so i gotta let this go,
everything that i've kept in,
these words ready to flow.
As much as i speak,
little did you ever know,
that this lil ray of sunshine turned into a pitchblack soul.
I remember a few years ago I preached a lot,
I had some words of wisdom so I shared my thoughts.
I preached about loyalty , respect and gangsta...

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break-up   infidelity   lies   love   married life   pain   relationships   sad

Sell Me Something More Than Snake Oil And Lies

Sell Me Something More Than Snake Oil And Lies

 

They say that pulling down statues

Is rewriting history

As though the sculptors who made them

Were historians

And not some commissioned artist

Doing what he was told

 

Sell me something more than snake oil and lies

 

It is a form of history

Cast in the wealthy viewpoint

From the stance of the privileged

It’s...

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BLM   day11 (72)   history   lies   NaPoWriMo207   perspective   removal   statues   the Bop

Away The Lad

Away The Lad

 

When you haven’t got a friend

Or a carer you can reach

Then plan a family trip

To the better equipped North East

County Durham’s nice this time of year

Or so I hear them say

And simply by happenstance

It’s only my wife’s birthday

 

You see me and the Missus

developed a little cough

so we panicked and headed North

and all the newspaper can Fu...

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barnard castle   breaking lockdown   co durham   day 29   dominic cummings   elite   eye test   lies   napowrimo2018   off topic

Going Viral (with Teflon Dom)

Like Saul on the road to Damascus
when Jehovah stopped for a word and held forth
Mary Wakefield met Lord God Almighty
on the A1. In March. Heading north.
In a car with something quite deadly
(who was apparently feeling unwell)
his road paved with the worst of intentions
off to Durham, or – hopefully – hell,
coughing and sweating and whining
like some self-centred, sociopath scrote
Domini...

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covid-19   dominic cummings   hypocrisy   lies

The "Corona" Special

So we all know this is bullshit, this thing called Corona Virus,

My friends and I don't wear masks and now people won't stand beside us,

Damn it's crazy that people still watch the news,

All they do is lie and it's owned by the Jews,

That doesn't make me a racist so please just relax,

Just look up the definitions and make sure you know your facts,

Can't you see this virus is one ...

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america   brainwashing   conspiracy   Corona virus   corruption   government   lies   lock down   media   news   propaganda   truth   tyranny

Our (Mis)Fortune

Your hand slips into mine, 
the fortune-teller notices 
our smiles with glittering eyes
she’s convinced 
there’s a future between us
she smiles & invites us in

Laying down cards one by one 
it reveals the betrayal and secrets
that will keep us
from the love that has swept us into a whirlwind 

We turn to each other stunned
but a laugh begins, 
she replies, “Sorry, no refunds”

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betrayal   fortune   lies   love

I Will Never Lie

I might use poetic license, 
write stories and invent details,
tell tall tales, speak in parables, 
exaggerate, embellish, 
embroider, enlarge upon 
or summarize and minimize.

I could write memoirs 
about my illustrious, 
impeccable career. 

I could cite statistics 
to prove a point, 
maybe fudge the numbers.

I could hide information, omit details, 
deny any knowledge 
and glos...

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embellish   exaggerate   lies   politics   truth

Liar

Liar Liar,

Soul on fire

Burn thy little heart.

 

From your lies

the truth must rise

or you'll feel it rip apart.

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Liars   lies

Truthful Lie

You had asked me once if I believed you to be equal to me

 

I told you yes - It wasn’t a lie

 

I believed you equal in every way

 

But only now do I realize, both, lie and truth in my answer

 

In that time of my life we were equal

 

But, as of now, we are not

You are not equal to this new me - the true me

One that is not starved and decomposing

 

No longer...

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depression   ex friends   lies   mental anguish   mental illnesss   Sidelined   sorrow   suffering   truth   truthful lies

the punch that never was

Laura’s snaffled an exclusive
freshly minted by the Tories
a left-wing thug has punched a bloke!
she tweets, ignores the story
about the PM and the photograph
the crisis in our NHS
kids on drips curled up on floors
the current government’s heartlessness
you see, a stolen phone is nothing
when you’ve a brand-new lie to share
about the punch that never happened
by a mob that wasn’t there
...

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election   lies   politics

WIZARD KILLER

Visions of the future,
Dreams of reality,
Our plane of existence,
Relies on duality,
The controllers of this world,
A separate ruling class,
I see through their bullshit,
The language of the looking glass,
Symbols and language,
Are the key to understanding,
The lies and deceptions,
And the trauma-based programming,
Rhetoric and satire,
The weapons of the wizard,
Words truly are magic...

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deception   doublespeak   launguage   lies   life   programming   rhetoric   speaking truth   the ruling class   the world   truth   Wizard killer   Wizards   word magic   words

True Story

This is how messed up it was...

Last night, my husband woke up and was cuddling me, then touching me, then we both were wide awake in intimacy. It was beautiful. It always is.

Then after, the doubt creeped in.

Chris lied. Chris always lied. I would wake up in the middle of the night to him touching himself to pictures on the internet. Once I woke up and he was staring at pictures of a wom...

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abuse   domestic abuse   domestic violence   emotional abuse   exes   gaslighting   Intimacy   liar   lies   mind games   sex

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

Falstaff: 'Henry IV, Part 1' act 5, sc. 4

 

There is a man

Who would be a king. This is such stuff

As past dreams would make his many morrows

That he, Princeling, may strut upon life's stage

As one with pride.

 

Yet this is a man

Who must know a past. That is the stage

As present nightmare on which he played so sad a part

That he, Pretender, needs now attend our co...

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Brexit   Conservatives   governance   lies   party leader   Prime Ministers   trust

addicts lie

"boop boop beep beep boop bup bip beep" go the alerts and synaptic responses

too fast to process, too repetitive to want to

"spit that out, it's toxic" I warned

as he slurped up drama in great mouthfulls, as if she were kool-aid

he would slice open a vein and welcome drama directly if she asked him to

surreptitious texting continues beneath the table

eyes downcast, thumbs flying ...

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addiction   deceit   dishonesty   drama   drugs   lies   love   lust   need   relationships   technology   texting   treachery

lies

why is it that

everyone says how

things will get better?

And at first you won't believe them.

 

but then as soon as

you get your hopes up

it all goes down.

And you cry, because you believed them.

 

again here comes the hole

that eats you whole

And then you say you won't believe anymore.

 

you are me.

and i am you.

we are both

                     ...

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free verse   lies   Personal

Mid January

 

No one else can judge me

Only God who reads hearts

People have abused me

When I reach fake of the facts

 

If you believe you're the master

And you can judge and lead

Surely you lose the only factor

That keeps you faithful indeed

 

Leave me alone fair and simple

I have to forget tens of lies

You should break your false temple

Wake up please .. open your e...

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abuse   alone   believe   benazouz   break   eyes   factor   facts   fair   faithful   fake   false   forget   God   heart   indeed   January   judge   keep   lead   leave   lies   lose   master   Mid   one   only   open   people   please   reach   read   simple   surely   temple   tens   wake

April First

 


No more fools again on April 
It was last lies to believe 
Complicated!!, Why not simple? 
Take it easy, or should leave 

 

If someone forces to trust 
That one puts others in doubting 
When the truth appear very fast 
That one is afraid or hiding 

 

We should only pray to God 
God will keep hearts more faithful 
When the purity clean the blood 
Surely life will be more...

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afraid   appear   April   believe   benazouz   blood   clean   complicate   doubting   easy   end   faithful   fast   first   fools   force   fouls   God   heart   hide   keep   last   leave   lies   life   other   pray   purity   put   simple   someone   sure   take   trust   truth   useful

Isabella

Either to swear, or not
The lies are a bad spot 
Thanks, but thanks a lot 
For your unfaithful effort 

Isabella, remember, again 
That love has fall in a drain 
Not only nothing to gain 
But also broke the brain 

You believe all what you say 
As a role of a daily play 
Surely, will see some day 
How much of love you deny 

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      Thanks   bad   believe   brain   broke   daily   day   deny   drain   effort   fall   gain   Isabella   lies   love   nothing   play   remember   role   say   see   spot   Surely   swear   unfaithful   what

REGRET

Set my heart free of chain
Don't break my heart again
Live your world keep me alone
I regret to be yours at all.

Since we met on that "…." Day 
You're still acting the play 
How to believe yourself today 
since you're hiding your goal. 

God helps guilty to regret
But you decided and insist 
Only to make mistakes a lot 
Now get ready to stop or fall.

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dishonesty   faithful   friendship   guilty   kind   lies   pure   regret   sorry   truth

Ode To The Lazy And Ignorant Who Scoff At The Truth

Dark are these times the world's gone mad,
Its all gonna end soon and I'm kinda glad,
As I sit here alone in a state of isolation,
The world has been deceived in a sea of indoctrination,
Oh how we've been lied to on a scale so grand,
It's hard to comprehend so let me help you understand,
MK Ultra, Paperclip, Nine-Eleven and Blue-beam,
There's so much deception that it feels like dream,
Hig...

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Conspiracies   Conspiracy Theories   Deception   genocide   Ignorance   Lies   Sheep   Sheeple   slient warfare   Truth

Retribution

Fueled by rage,
I'm in a cage,
I'm ready to go off,
Like a fuckin' 12 gauge,
Set off by hate,
I cannot debate,
That you weren't there,
So let me get this straight,
Your bullshit and your lies,
I really despise,
You're nothing but a fake,
You can't fool the wise,
You left me to hang,
You left me to dry,
So watch me succeed,
While I watch you cry.

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anger   betrayed   lies   retribution

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