Live and let live, forgive and forget
My life is empty but I'm not dead yet
The pain that I've suffered I've suffered long
But now my pain has become this song
My pain isn't just me anymore
I've shared it with the whole empty world
And now my pain has built my strength
In this dead world I could take on a tank
In this dead world the earth is mine
Everything doesn't have a line
Cause in the end there's only me
Staring at nothing quite happily
But from the nothing floats a mist
The shape distorts until I know who it is
It becomes the girl I see in my dreams
But I know her in real life, or so it seems
Ok so I guess I lied. This is the last fruit of my deep depression period that I experienced for a week. This was intended to be another set of song lyrics but I think it actually works better as a poem. I now just realized though, I can use this plus the other 3 pieces I've written to create a finished rap. Each part is a verse and I just need a refrain. Or I could shorten this and use it as a refrain. Hehehehe. My writing's improved a good amount lately. My work in slow progress, "Faith in Religion", has been well added to and reviewed by my friends. One said I put too much emphasis on race in parts of it but I have it set in Mississippi and intended to be a really racial part of it. That way someone that isn't white isn't going to fit in well. Same with someone that isn't a catholic. Then there's these four fruits of pain that I've written. If I were to use this part as the refrain I'd title the song, Empty World. It fits because in it I talk as if I've been alone all this time and everything and everyone I know is just a construct of my own mind. The mind is quite elaborate and if you look into it you'll find that something like that is possible. If it is it just means I'm a hallucinogenic lunatic. The first verse would be the one from the post titled "Don't Die" and of course I'd tweak it. If I didn't edit the raps and shorten them then I'd have like a 10 minute rap that didn't have a good flow in between verses and refrain. Also the second rap I wrote doesn't really fit into this one well. Now that I think about it neither is the third. The third and second fit as well together as this one and the first. Hmmmm. I need to rethink some shit.