* A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! * Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ * Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ * Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ * My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot * Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing * Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 They say that looks can be deceiving.[1] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn1 )More and more, I find myself believing that, As I’m torn between the facts my eyes deliver and the translation my brain extracts.[2] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn2 )If what I see is what I get, that’s all I have and nothing more. Still, my mind loves to conjure – illusory perceptions, cunningly woven fabrications of its invention So with every look I give I find I live in tension between what I know and what truly is[3] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn3 ) They say the eyes are windows to the soul But less and less I feel it stressed to look in two big black holes Mere physical features of social creatures, there’s nothing more there to behold Or so I’m told[4] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn4 )But what then of beauty? Where then does it lie, if not in the eyes of an immortal Past those black, those glassy portals unto perspicuity into the essence of a being[5] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn5 ) They say that death remedies all ills It cures all that it kills ending pain and ending want Ending rule of lands by tyrant gods who have all power that they flaunt[6] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn6 )But this death will also daunt the meek and lowly of the earth Alongside the evil sycophant who disgraces his own birth[7] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn7 )While death may cure the ills that time will build within a fallen creature Who will cure us of this feature Which [also] haunts and destroys all mirth[8] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn8 ) As now I look into the face of death I see it has no eyes[9] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn9 )Indiscriminate destroyer, harbinger of all’s demise Just a windowless employer of a broken space and time Soulless creature with no beauty Pure darkness, devoid of life When I look, I don’t see deceit Just pure and simple explanation Evil’s embodiment replete For once in my life I don’t feel a shred of tension There’s not an ounce of beauty here to see No panacea to remedy I see no illusion No soul Nothing to make one whole[10] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn10 )All I see, all there is All there ever was, will be is a dark and damning, overbearing, torturous lucidity[11] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftn11 ) [1] ( https://d.docs.live.net/aa47b334b10366f7/Documents/Writings/Poems/A%20Poetry%20Compilation%20(290).doc#_ftnref1 ) I do a play on three different phrases. 1) they say looks can be deceiving, but our eyes only deliver information. That is not deceiving. What is deceiving is our interpretation based on assumptions, limited information, etc. So what I “know” isn’t what always truly is. 2) Eyes being the windows to the soul is meant to say that we can read emotions and intentions in others eyes, regardless of what they say. However, I take this phrase literally. If I look into another’s eyes and don’t see or believe in a soul behind them, I just view them as another pile of matter. And while beauty being in the eyes of the beholder is meant to give the beholder the power of importing meaning and value, here I flip it to mean not that the power to import beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but beauty actually lies behind the one beholding (or using their eyes to see). 3) The saying is really that “time remedies all ills.” However, the accrual of enough time is simply synonymous with death and destruction, as that is what eventually happens, and what.... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1l84P6c2Q