It's Easier

It's easier to believe
That you're nothing
Than you're everything

It's easier to think
That this is the worst
Even if it was worse before

It's easier to believe
You can't make it
Even when no one has

It's easier to think
That you need changing
More than others do

It's easier to believe
That you're broken
Than a wound that healed

It's easier to think
That you need someone
Even if you're complete.

Love in the time of Corona

Maybe, finally, this time, we will learn...
We'll learn to choose love over greed,
And show more empathy than apathy.
We'll learn to leave past baggage at the door,
And accept that doing right is better than being right.

Maybe, finally, this time, we will learn...
We'll learn to measure lives in more than dollars,
And recognize simpler things bring most joy.
We'll learn not to destroy our beautiful planet,
And realize what goes around, really does come around.

Maybe, finally, this time, we will learn...
We'll learn that compromises don't make us,
And it's actually our will to live instead.
We'll learn that we're all made of more than mass
And it's called humanity, and it's not dead.

Incept

Crawling my way through the darkness,
Praying some day I could be free.
All this time I spent fighting my imperfections
That were a mirror of you not me.

I climbed high till I could breathe no more
And I denied air as I sank to the deep.
The prize was your perfect reproach,
I thought I was woke, but I was asleep.

Now I must dive into darkness again to find
The answer that appears at the brink of my reach.
Your inception was perfect, I question what's real,
Was it your lies, or your lies I now preach?