What is your favorite poem?

Revolt against the unknown

The child inside you fully grown

Your imagination has been sewn shut

The man will not let you roam

Stay away from the unseen

Your conscience reminds you to stray off

the path into the forgotten green

But you have reason not to believe

You think you've been deceived

Shut your ears to the unheard

To you it sounds absurd

Society made you close-minded

So you will not listen to voice behind it

Why won't you feel the untouched?

Are you afraid of it being too rough, too tough?

Have you had enough?

Have you lost too much?

Has the thought of it suffocated you?

Refuse to smell the unscented

Even if it reminds you of the heavens

But how would you know

For you gave that hope up long ago

Do not swallow the unflavored

You martyr, you follower, you stranger

Will you not savor the moment?

It's too late, you have blown it.

If you were different from everyone

You'd be shunned, chased, and gunned

It's the adult inside of you that made you like this

So seize him and cast that man into the abyss

Why must the abnormal ones be sent to Hell?

Not even the deepest children can tell

It doesn't matter if he's innocent or if he's belligerent

You say "Who the fuck gives a shit?"

There is no more freedom

There is no more individual in the city

There is no more hope left in your species

Which is why I look down upon you from the stars with pity

For you will never join me up here

Not till I can make it clear

That you are doing things wrong down there

But you don't give a care

To you it's always some other day

You will always do things your own way

Even if it means you must pay

For not listening to what I have to say

This is the story of how man's imagination deteriorated

How it was obliterated

By the society I hated

The same one that I created.

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