Andropocene

used to be cool
calm too, me & you
the occasional clash
barely a splash, gone in a flash
But now it's strange
more heated exchanges, get more deranged
and with greater force
we're on a bad course, toward divorce(?)

Your temper is hotter
yet you are colder, all the same
the nagging thought of
the fact that I may be to blame

These hot emissions
with such repetitions, make these conditions
We blew our caps
with our mishaps, incurred collapse
the floodgates wide
the times we cried, intensified
There's no return
We're going to burn in this inferno

Your temper is hotter
yet you are colder, all the same
The nagging thought of
the fact that I may be to blame

My selfish greed
did supercede your wants and needs
And I don't know if I can fix it
it's like an addiction
affecting all I've known and loved
taking us under
I hear that thunder…

Your temper is hotter
My weight to shoulder, my crying shame
the nagging knowledge
that I'm the one to blame

Meet Me on the Left

There are two different contemporary pop songs about meeting in the middle. Thus I felt a need to write this.

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Look around
there is no middle ground
right is wrong
Where do you belong?
Won't you meet me on the left?

A compromise
will e'er more shut your eyes
the middle validates
racism and hate
Won't you meet me on the left?

Meet me on the left
Help to ward off freedom's theft
Meet me on the left
Without you we're bereft

World dies
oceans on the rise
carbon to curb
rouse the undisturbed
Won't you meet me on the left?

Folks get shot
a system fully bought
you cannot deal
with the fully evil
Won't you meet me on the left?

Meet me on the left
Help to ward off freedom's theft
Meet me on the left
Help us lifting this heft

You mean to accept
as human precept
eternal jail
just for being female
Won't you meet me on the left?

Look around
there is no middle ground
stand and fight
don't give in to the right
Won't you meet me on the left?

Meet me on the left
Help to ward off freedom's theft
Meet me on the left
Else you can… get effed