[Soulstice]

I’d tell you the truth, but that seems like the waste of a good lie.

I used to jump without looking down to see how deep the hole was first. It’s only now that I’ve figured out that’s how the whole world works.

Start with every errant song
that found its way in a playlist, and the statements that go with.
Anthems for road trips, and the abandonment opens
as sand to an ocean at the handsomest coast,
with no glance of a ghost ship. Yet I'm saddled with guilt,
for every survivor that'll never wash up ashore.

You don’t get a medal.
You’re just another
god damn millennial.

Looking back now, when I was a child, I never thought, I just did. Then I made it to high school, and, I won’t lie to you, I only knew that I wasn’t a kid.

to slowly invert the old me, indolent, across a fulcrum of words.
With no one pushing that swing, you learn to kick with your feet,
but when you begin to succeed, you slip past the peak-

Solitude's something to which I can adjust. Comfort aside.
To lie is to trust, or protect, or whatever gets you to sleep.

But I think that I'm done with that chapter of my life

DOPE.

But hey,

I didn't like "dull non-emotion" nor the "Aint that some shit", and the setting fire to earth seemed a little too angry for the tone of the piece.

Oktozen is a cool name.