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To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan

Shane Koyczan "To This Day"

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Sorry about the month long absence, life got hectic and I haven't had a chance to put stuff up.

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The Whole World Burns The whole world burns Your head just turns Away. A friend in despair Falling to madness You can’t stop or stare You just hide from the sadness The whole world burns Your head just turns Away. Another killing Over nothing great You find it chilling But then you plan your next date The whole world burns Your head just turns Away. Recession has hit. The land is in debt At home you just sit As in your ways you are set The whole world burns Your head just turns Away. Brother fights brother The world is at war Truth you try smother By checking the footy score The whole world burns Your head just turns Away.

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The Sound Of Silence The sound of silence Keeps away the violence That hard I try hide Yet does rage inside Rare does it become As noise I do shun Still waters run deep Or so wise folk speak So it is with me People let me be Least they chance to drown In my deep set frown

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Drifting Drifting from here to there Dawdling along the way Picking my path as I go Pausing as and when I need Such is the life I want Stuck to no one and nothing Without obligation and strings Just me and a good bike Jotting a map as I go

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Shaking The Shackles Shaking the shackles of syllables Removing the restraints of rhyme Letting the poetry run freely Feeling the words every line Rhyming without reason And reasoning without rhyme Such is the joy of poetry Mixed with an analytic mind

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You, Me and Mr Nobody You, Me and Mr. Nobody We get all the blame Us three If it wasn’t You It were Me If not Me Then Mr. Nobody And if not Mr. Nobody Then clearly It was You So you see We get all the blame Us three You, Me and Mr. Nobody

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Look In The Mirror Look in the mirror Killer What do you see? Murderer Look into the cold stare Freak What do you find? Psychopath Knowing what you could do Unstable Will you ever fall? Dangerous Knowing that you could kill Snake Will you ever act? Disturbed Seeing your cold soul Deviant How can you survive? Monster Seeing your warped thoughts Weirdo How can you still stand? MUR-DER-ER . As I stare in the mirror Killer I see a fallen man Murderer As I stare into my dead eyes Freak I find a dirty thing Psychopath Yes, I know what I could do Unstable But I will not fall Shush I know I could kill Snake Yet I shall not act Silence My soul is not so cold No I survive on faith NO Though my thoughts may be warped STOP I stand on my Saviour’s grace …..

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To One Unknown If I were an actor and you my stage What a play we’d make it’d be all the rage. But I’m no artist and you’re my nothing So there’s no theatre and no great applause If you were a painter and I your model What a masterpiece and what a great life But you’re no Da Vinci and I no Mona Lisa So there is no art and we stay apart If we were together and never strayed far We’d both be so happy and would never fall away But you are unknown and we have never met Yet for you I shall wait and stay faithful my heart.

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Misanthropy Misanthropy is Making my rage fizz Can I not have peace Silence my release Be gone from my sight Before I take flight Your idiocy It does annoy me Your trivial talk Is a pointless squawk The much wasted breath Shall cause a quick death It’s the only way To keep you at bay The needed violence To give me silence

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Reverse Poetry read it forwards then follow the lines back up This is how I think give in don’t fight failed dreams destroy hopes and joys the dark it consumes the light without a fight Or so I thought till a friend turned me round, now I know.

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Do You Chance To know My Foe Do you chance to know my foe Where he lives and where he will go Do you chance to know his game So I can win and claim my fame Can you teach me of my hate Of his home and of his locked gate Can you teach me how to kill By the blade and poison pill Will you show me where to hide Where I can duck and how to slide Will you show me when to run And where to throw a smoking gun Do you wish to help my plight To witness my wrath burning bright Do you wish to see him die And help me far away to fly

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The Epic (This is a long one) Here is a great tale Of times long ago Where good shall avail And banish the foe There was once a king Chivalrous and true As the bards do sing His crown he did rue His nation did need A hero of old Atop a strong steed With blade of steel cold Now to a young lad Son of a farmer The strife heard he had So donned armour His steed was a nag A sickle his blade His shirt was a rag His trousers were frayed Down path old and worn Our hero did ride The cold he did scorn The heat he did chide To the king he went To his aid he came But away was sent The king thought him tame To help he did vow Against evil fight He did not care how So right the king’s slight He went to a man Who had arcane lore ‘Cross all, his mind span Found the trouble’s spore A beast was the prize Shadow was its cloak Eventide its guise And its passage smoke The fiend how to slay The wise man did teach What words he should pray The right tone of speech Our hero went forth To the demon’s hide Out to the cold north ‘Cross frozen lake slide Countless leagues later The hunting ground found In a great crater Deprived of all sound His sickle laid down A great shout he rose And took off his gown A presence arose “Come Shadow Walker Out of the wan night Come Silent Talker Bring fear as your blight Come Restless Shifter Show me your true shape Come Noiseless Drifter Shed your masking cape Come Shapeless Thrasher Test now your power Come Mouthless Gnasher Me, try to devour My kin were once great So I, you can’t beat You, my rage shall sate And Death you shall meet.” The beast he did end He severed the head And the corpse did rend Upon its flesh fed To the king he went To prove his power The kings pride to dent But things went sour The king had no joy For a great success Won by a serf’s boy This he must redress The boy he did kill With savage Night Shade Hid with fake good will Our hero’s heart stayed Yet once more he breathed Saved by the beast’s flesh His anger it seethed Him it did enmesh His anger aflame His triumph soured The beast he became The king devoured

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Tempus Fugit "Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore" “But meanwhile it flies: time flies irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.” Forever time Flies Flies never to return Return to its prize Prize of great concern Concern for the missed Missed by someone’s love Love that shall persist Persist from above Above mortal strife Strife that can sever Sever the short life Life lasts forever

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Society “Humanity is conformity Conformity is society Society is this reality” Dub FX – Society Gates If society Is reality Then am I not in reality For I shun society And all its connected conformity Does this mean that I lack humanity? Or have I just lost my insanity For insanity Is the true humanity And conformity Is just uniformity Uniformity Is a deformity Upon Insanity And its connected humanity

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My Cauterised Mind My cauterised mind To emotion blind Yet my caring heart At emotions start They think I feel not That my heart does rot That I have no soul It’s as black as coal I conceal my self For my mental health Yet that does not mean My soul is unclean For others I feel Try help their ordeal Their burden to ease So hide my disease

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As I Look From On High As I look from high What is it I spy The silvery Birch Climbs out of its perch With Willow weeping Down river sweeping To the mighty Oak His will to evoke.

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