blackheart ii

I dutifully wonder
how is it that humans are so inhuman
when equipped with a prideful, yet repetitive task
to do anything that is not changing the world?
Not that a world-changer can be wild
but such irrelevant archetypes of human nature
should never be excuses to avoid the heart
for life-saving ambitions are hibernating within
impatiently waiting to never be asked to sleep
or to stab itself with a blunt knife, repeatedly.

Yes, I'm speaking to you,
the world's only revenant.

- Rowen Black

blackheart

Why does the world press me down on its feet
if they say I'm so damn important
to all of their lives; to all of their pride;
to everything that defines them as human?
They talk with such humanly terms,
me too,
yet they say I'm never one of them
and that I deserve a lonely life.
They call me crazy even though I'm normal;
they call me lazy even though I'm formal;
they never respected me simply because I'm me.
If everyone in this dying world has a purpose,
am I just the scapegoat of society;
to get pulled and beaten and whipped and burned and
to be the mask that nobody dares to put on?
Like everyone else, I await a savior
to save me from this wretched land;
but they don't know me, they don't know my strength,
as I choose to forever keep this heart.

- Rowen Black

revenant

I would casually lift a finger

move more than three feet

raise my arm and cast death onto them

all the lazy bastards who stole

who made the world their leaking underwear

to shit and re-shit, and I do hope

they'll defecate their brains

but true apathy towards society is a norm

hypocritical, as it is spoken by changers

yet they brainlessly spit combustible lies

we live lives that die when we die

we are but our own presumption of society

waking up, falling asleep

thanking for our lives but never use them

even a sentence to help a friend

a hand to lift those we love

even when sitting, without prejudice

without judgement, for all are humans

a good man or woman

is different from a good human

for we are only human if all are equal

or we would extinguish ourselves

yet if we try to pacify ourselves

all the lazy bastards will shriek

"stay revenant, never relevant"

and they will raise their arms and cast death onto us.

- Revenant Greystar