Why Would I Write

  • Royalty

    Just a song I wrote a few months ago. Finally finished it and recorded a rough demo on a productive Thursday night. Enjoy

    Royalty

    on your bed you lie like royalty
    in your mind you wish that you were free
    all the luxuries meant for a king
    but are you truly?

    when you trade your air for water
    all our words fall upon deaf ears
    you look forward to be released
    follow the bright light

    watching over you like guardians
    just like statues we wait
    as the waves crash all around us
    behind a glass display

    tethered to a bed, is it living?
    lines on a graph, numbers falling
    your whole being reduced to
    beeps on a machine

    (take my lungs, I didn’t treasure them anyway)

    when you trade your air for water
    all our words fall upon deaf ears
    you look forward to be released
    embrace the darkness

    waiting for the full collapse
    your last dying breath
    we mutter empty words to comfort ourselves

    it’s all up to you now
    it’s time to say goodbye
    we mutter empty words to comfort ourselves

  • Too Young To Die

    “Oh, he/she was so young.”

    What is that supposed to mean?
    Is there an age we’re supposed to die at?

    Is any age ever a good age to die?
    Can someone be too old to die?
    Or is that just the default response for someone to say whenever they find out the age of someone who passed away?

    Isn’t it all relative? What if the person who passed away did everything he/she ever wanted to do before passing away? Would that a good age then?

    What if they didn’t die, and spent the rest of their life accomplishing nothing else. Would they be at a better age to die then?

    If someone was too old, would the correct response be “I guess his/her time was up”?

    There’s no right age to die.
    People just die.

    “I’m sorry to hear that.” is sufficient.

    There’s really no need to add anything else. It doesn’t make people feel any better. Really.

  • A Slight Update

    In case you’re wondering why I have a new layout – my blog was recently hacked/hijacked (not sure by who, or how – but some fuckers injected some code to redirect visitors to other sites. I’m not sure when it happened – but I think it’s probably due to some security issues and me using an old-ass outdated theme. I may or may not have fixed the problem – if you receive any warnings or get redirected please let me know.

    I spent a few hours today trying to locate the injected redirection code but thought it was more trouble than it’s worth – in the end I decided to just replace all the recently modified files with the default files from a fresh installation of wordpress. The security plugins on my blog are still detecting issues, so this weekend I’ll work on doing a full wipe and reset of this blog to make sure this place is free of any shenanigans. Don’t expect any new updates until I get the problem fixed. Hopefully it will be a walk in the park.