#collection five

[ran-the-cynic]

Brief Reprieve 26.08.2025

We watch the banana birds

Soft with a yellow

They bounce like a pillow

From branch to branch;

Chirping the sweetest of melodies

Drawing our minds

Dancing before our eyes

Truly it all is beautiful.

Past them the sun glows

Heat on my arm

Yielding to none at all

What more could we ask for?

Endless life

We put up a front

Somehow decide we won

It's not too late to go back.

[ran-the-cynic]

Through My Eyes

My mind ran wild

With the shimmer of light

And the glimmers of life

That surround us.

[ran-the-cynic]

Parasocial

It's all performative

It used to be real kids, real people

Reacting in real time

With real life opinions

Some terrible, dont get me wrong

But it's changed -

Now everyone wants to be

An influencer

An instagrammer

The next big thing

With a Netflix Original

They've made a bore of it

I've made a chore of it

Can't find the joy in it

Theres not much more to it

Than that.

[ran-the-cynic]

In perfect fire and perfect lust

Forged ties that leave thought in the dust

Free us from the passion of skin

All along it was my sin

As I will, so mote it be.

- Unbinding Incantation 01.25.01

[ran-the-cynic]

The Chase

Chasing acceptance

Chasing a feeling

Chasing existence

Chasing a reason

Chasing a thought

Through the nights

And the seasons

Chasing the meaning

Of life that we're leading

Tired of chasing

Hands empty and pleading

For all that I've found

I'm left here still needing

Get up off the ground

Staunch all the bleeding

Beaten for sure

But not yet defeated.

[ran-the-cynic]

Scales

All that I feel

A cry out to heaven;

The angels, and blessed

No tears for this devil.

[ran-the-cynic]

At the Gates

Justify it

Justify it at the gates

Don't deny it

All your sin and all your hate

Justify it

Bring the cause and all the claims

In the face of God explain

Justify it at the gates.

[ran-the-cynic]

2026 Surrealism

Originally posted on @eating-doll-parts