Shade 83: Of This and That

Don’t think about your jealousy
It tears you like a beast
The thing you thought you passed in youth
Still clings to you to feast
It frays the fragile tapestry
You’ve weaved with wondrous care
And where you worked to earn your joy
You’re laden with despair
Push it back into the shadows
To the confides of its cage
And best the beast that bites at you
That turns your joy to rage
For your mind is your own country side
It’s up to you to keep it clear
Don’t think about your jealousy
And you can persevere

Shade 82: The First Task

Stand tall brave hero, your journey is not yet done
Your race has not yet ended, your battle not yet won.

You’ve seen just a little victory, but the challenge rages on
And though you think you’ve struggled now, you haven’t yet begun.

So raise your shield once more, wipe the blood from out your eyes
And do not fall prey to the comfort of these blue forgiving skies.

‘Tis but a calm between to storms that will rip and tear once more
So keep your strength and stand your ground, Oh mighty warrior.

Shade 81: Rule Seventy-Two

There are rules I know I know about
but can't bring myself to care
About when I can say what to you
And how or why or where
But if there's something that is plaguing
every thought that I possess
Do I not deserve the chance to simply
get it off my chest?
Can I not just speak my mind to you
because I think that you'll agree
Communication's easier when
it's not done so formally
I think if I just have it out
I feel that I may find
the things that have been plaguing me
are also on your mind
So let's just drop this silly game
of who has power and who not
and get it out we both agree
our sex is really hot

Shade 80: You-poison

A small sensation starts
In the recesses of your brain
A teeny tingle that at first
You know you can restrain

But it grows
Oh yes it grows
And it spreads through all your head
Filling up the parts of you
That you had thought were dead
But they wake
Oh yes they wake
Stirring swiftly to the fore
That restraint that you had banked upon
Has just run out the door
Now you're different
Yes you're different
And there's something else inside
This thing knows you and controls you
You may call it Edward Hyde
Yet you like it
Yes you like it
Cause you couldn't change on your own
And now when you least expect it
You find you're not alone

Shade 79: the Broken Compass

And suddenly you’re awake
To all the choices you didn’t make
Every personal mistake so far
So is it time to start again?
Should it be right now or when?
You can stay put but then it’s hard.
See, you’re miles from the route
That you always dreamt about
And the fear is crying loud, take heart.
Just take a single tread
Towards the image in your head
Of the life you want instead, now start.
There’s a freedom you will find
On the pictures in your mind
Though you’ve left them all behind, till now.
So go back where you began
Now’s the time to start again
It’s so hard but you can learn how.