My List of Virtues...

I believe in eternal life, beyond the world we know…
…it helps to make me bitter, to know that the being is greater than this world

I believe in idealism of the mind and of the soul…
…there is a way to combine both, if I knew how, I'd finally be whole…

I believe people can communicate with people who have passed…
…for us to express out love and feelings…
…for them to let us know they're still here…

I believe in honesty as a way to cleanse the heart…
…compassion for people who lie, or hold things in, will always lead to pain…

I believe in give and take, the only real way to make a friend…
…both people need to be as close to equal or soon the friendship will collapse…

I believe in karma, rather, bringing good deeds to the world…
…for every good deed in the world, a hundred bad deeds take hold of it…
…an insurmountable number, it is not…
…it can be chipped away by generations…

I believe in creation, as a way to alleviate the mind…
A simple line, in any form, exposes a person's soul for the entire world to see…

I believe in selective fate, certain things always above what we can't control…
…"Everything happens for a reason," is a quote I've come to love…
…sometimes there are ways to fix the plan, other times there are not…
…when things get beyond your skeletal borders, it's best to have faith in fate…

I believe in baseball, the colors and sounds infiltrate my soul…
…a simple game of skill will compel me until the day I die…
…but a day beneath the fluorescent nighttime summer sky is all I need to make me cry…

Most of all, I do believe, that sharing all things faithfully
…to all the people who matter most, to a new found friend or a holy ghost…

The best gift anyone could ever give is to give their world all they have to give…

Life and Death: An excercise in frustration

Auditory silence in a world filled with flaws
Be careful of your footsteps, you never know who they'll impact
Everyday I find it more and more difficult to fight off indifferent; to fight off apathy
When it feels like you're the only one fighting for change
Four billion versus one is a battle you will always lose

I need a break from the war inside my mind
My will to change the world is losing to the ills of confronting the norm
For better, for worse, this is all my world will ever know
Acceptance scared me more than isolation; my mind in apathy is a soul that's long and gone

You'll find me with a smile when I hear things I may not want to hear
People refuting what I believe in only strengthens my resolve
I fight my battles with graphite or the melodic sounds of whispers
The days of me punching my way to victory went out the way of wonder

Once capricious in youth, I'm now steadfast in my mid-life...

I'm no longer afraid of my mortality, I embrace it everyday
Being the edge of the circle I belong to is a struggle everyday
The more I'm trying to find my place, the more I realize I should make my place in the world
My own shot to make a difference, my only chance to give myself a dream

I see myself enjoying the quiet in my mind
Before I lose my breakthrough and lose compassion for all-time
I'm not sure what I'm looking through, or what I'm trying to find
I just hope that when I find it...
...I'll be ready, I'll be fine...

My body wishes for a day without a cause for strife
To live a day amongst the earth without it meaning my whole life
Living in the instant, the moment now within the world, has never been my strong point
I know I'll have to make it soon, before the light passes me by