What is a poem? What is the nature of a poem? Here are my reflections on the subject.

1Weakness This might be a rant on the weakness of others, but no. This is me having to face, once again, my weakness, my lack of self-respect and even my sense of balance. I make Fight Club referances. And I am the dragon. My family keeps having 666 come up. I

1Nothing matters A simple philosophical lesson. Nothing emo or warped. Just a window into how I think. What I think doesn't really matter. Why would anyone spend this much time reading a preface. If you are still reading this poem is for you.

2Disconnect I do this a lot. More than I should. I fear I'll disconnect and never be able to reconnect to anything one day. Point being this is about the joys and flaws of complete emotional disconnects.

2A plateau I stand on a plateau. Empty and following orders like a clockwork orange. To my side, my friends, my equals. I speak not out of pride when I ask, where are those like us who have ascended further? I have led. I have comdanded for too long. Like a vam

2Disgust The only thing I feel for my mother. That's not true actually but I'll let myself think it for now. She's been drinking recently.

The eye of the storm This expresses the way I feel right now. I'm dealing with it though, nothing emo. I'm trying to face it. I just needed to put it somewhere.

1Whatever the future brings Me coming to terms with the more than likely possibility that my love won't be returned again. The last line is German.

3I should have known I acted as a man, a lover when I should have been a friend. I'm sorry. I didn't know.