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A mostly raw, uninhibited, slightly satirical view into the world of Jack Common.

Darkness

Stuck on a feelin’

Unfortunately it’s apathy 

that grips me 

With a bit of irony 

I have no will to be set free 

The point I fail to see

Emotional purgatory 

Reality obscured by allegory 

A story so gory 

Elicits a convulsion of fuck it 

What is dead can’t be killed 

In the grim reaper’s face I retort suck it 

What is robotic can’t be thrilled 

What is burnt can’t be chilled 

What is hopeless can’t be willed 

What is restless can’t be stilled 

What is worthless can’t be billed 

What is drowning can’t be gilled 

What is vacuous can’t be filled 

What is rotted can’t be milled 

Disable the alarm 

Slap away every outstretched arm 

Long to be forgotten on the farm 

Depression is never cured 

To the darkness countless can relate 

Empathize with those condemned to endure 

By sharing mine, others pain I hope to placate 

I’d like to proffer hope and change 

But my eyes belie no matter how my smile I arrange 

Every try is pathetically wry 

Depression synonymous with suppression 

An army of stoics 

Wearing mask of heroics 

What’s inside 

Must be fortified 

Or be classified 

Insanely certified 

It’s what's implied 

So repression feels justified 

Slowing becoming ossified 

Another member of humanity nullified 

And begins yearning for the escape offered by suicide 

But I don’t want that for me 

Or anyone 

I will not be depression’s sacrificial son 

Not just the war will be won 

The number of battles lost must be none 

So give me a shout 

And let it all out 

Cuz I care if don’t nobody else care 

No need to be scared 

Your condition is far from rare 

So my soul I bare 

So you know you’re not the only one out there 


Rhetoric

Changin' Times