After my previous “avant-garde” poetic endeavour, I figured I’d share another one. This is, of course, dedicated to the person I wrote it for.

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“I feel it only necessary to preface a work such as this with a quote.” – [Name Removed]

[Waves] [Close our eyes and count slow,] (Falling Up) (Falling Up)
[In this moment things are getting dangerous.
Oh no.
I can’t find my way.
All these things that left me in their waiting.
—I keep shaking], [feel the wounds (Falling Up)
Hold my hands cradling all the souls] (Falling Up)
But [your body’s empty now,
As I hold you—now gone I miss you,
But I TOLD you—
I remember the bad times,
More than the good.] (Megadeth)
There’s a short list
Of things “I should!”
[I loved you to Death…
I loved you to DETH!] (Megadeth)

[They’re {running} away,
Stirring up dust in the line,
{She} found a place with none of us.
But the words that she said sounded peculiar and strained
Like she couldn’t believe the words that] (Falling Up)
Came from her lips, She said,
“[You’re on you own now, dressed in armour.
If you run faster, you’ll forget.] (Falling Up)
WHY ARE WE YELLING?”
[And now I owe,
I owe the voices in my head,
They said, “were these things miracles?”
Oh-Uaoh, my heart beats like a helicopter.] (Falling Up)
[*Electric noise*
So you want deliverance that {fif}teen years couldn’t bring,
Or you want to bury all the evidence so far down.
All your dreams are always coming true
Either way you still find you take a life
You TAKE A LIFE, OUA– –AOH!] (Falling up)

[Now my heart is shaking and terrified,
But some how you might rescue me.] (Falling Up)
[But you will break your back fighting,
Before you let them break your pride.] (Megadeth)
[Only yesterday
they told me you were gone.
All these normal people,
will I find another one?
—
I said I need you, does that make me wrong?
Am I a weak man, are you feeling strong?
My heart was blackened, it’s bloody red
A hole in my heart, a hole in my ––––!
I forgot you said,
“ONE DAY YOU’LL WALK ALONE…”
— —
Who will help me up?
Where’s the helping hand?
Will you turn on me?
Is this my final stand?] (Megadeth)

[Turn the handle to the shadowlands,
Legs will break like shattering glass] (Falling Up)
Asking my
[First mistake—
last mistake.
Next mistake,
no more mistakes!] (Megadeth)
[INSOMNI-OMNI-OMNI-IA
—My swollen bloodshot eyes!
INSOMNI-OMNI-OMNI-IA
I’ll do anything for peace – I keep waking up
a solemn oath I make
cross my heart please let me sleep…] (Megadeth)

My swollen, bloodlet eyes!
Sees visions in the skies
[INSOMNI-OMNI-OMNI-IA] (Megadeth)
I have the map, the key and,
I [can see the future.] (Falling Up)
An outstretched hand,
Leave in my sutures.
I pray, if it Please you.

[No lost memories,
they’re just a dream, a fantasy;
in agony, lost family,
and lost for a dream.
Gone now! Yet I’m full of hate] (Fractal Cypher)
—
[In this world that I created,
I’m intoxicated.] (Lacuna Coil)
—
[THIS WAS MY LIFE,
THIS WAS MY FATE—] (Megadeth)
—
[I’ll probably end up in flames
Before the end of the night] (Icon for Hire)
[—A visionary that made it.] (Zedd feat. Logic)

[I like the way that I make you itch
And all the reasons I give you to bitch] (Megadeth)
[I swear we’ll flood your city,
No choice it’s what you’re getting.] (Falling Up)
[Come on take my hand and follow,
Open virgin eyes to see,] (Anarchy Club)
[I like the way that you let me in
The way you look
when the walls cave in.] (Megadeth)

[Don’t play the hero,
There is no past there is no future.] (Fractal Cypher)
[Attack the church dynamic, attack the family
Keep the public undisciplined till nothing left is sacred] (Megadeth)
[COWARDS ARE UNHOLY
PARASITES THAT HIDE] (Halford)
[This open wound will kill us all.] (Fractal Cypher)
[—But strength is born from weakness,
And this is where I fall.
I step up to the enemy
And rise from where I crawled.] (Halford)

[This could be all the heaven you need
Life can be wicked, mean and cold
Could this be the end of your living terror?
Come with me, and I’ll train your soul …
Just one thing that I want you to know] (Megadeth)
You can leave, am I a fallen fool?
Come with me, you’ll know what it’s for,
Soon enough—*chokes*

[You’ll never see, a ray of daylight,
So far in debt, you’re struggling to survive—] (Megadeth)
[God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him]; (Nietzsche)
[WHIP THE BACK, OF YOUR MESSIAH, YOUR PEACE KILLS BY DEATH.] (Halford)
[What water is there for us to clean ourselves?] (Nietzsche)
[Detonate the human bomb, hands are all awash in blood.] (Halford)
[…who will wipe this blood off us? …Must we ourselves not become
gods simply to appear worthy of it?] (Nietzsche)
[Upon my podium, as the / Know it all scholar
Down in my seat of judgement / Gavel’s bang, uphold the law
Up on my soapbox, a leader / Out to change the world
Down in my pulpit as the holier- / than-thou-could-be-messenger of God!
… Holy Wars.] (Megadeth)
[Carnage of the scriptures, Slaughter of the lamb.
Break the neck of the white dove, Rundown by the tracks of blood.] (Halford)

[I am, I am really afraid,] (Falling Up)
[Because I don’t say it,
don’t mean I ain’t Thinkin’ it,] (Megadeth)
[But maybe it’s meant to be this way, {rough},
‘Cause we are the young in love.
I am, I am really afraid,
But I am your protector!
You kno-ow,
You’ll be never alone again…] (Falling Up)
[Father, Healer, Deliver me from broken love.
Stay here, Closer, Let me hear your voice of love.
Saviour, Redeemer, Bring me to this place of peace.] (Falling Up)
[The human charioteer drives his in a pair;
and one horse is noble and of noble breed,] (Plato)
[{Noach}, garden,] (Falling Up)
[and the other is ignoble and of ignoble;
The driving of them of necessarily
gives the human a great deal of trouble.] (Plato)
[My broken heart is so in need.] (Falling Up)

[Can you hear my calling?] (Fractal Cypher)
[Lost in a room of mirrors,
There’s only one way out.] (Halford)
[Down on the streets below
Bright city lights would glow
The energy would rise
And through the heat I’d gaze
Still counting empty days
With fire in my eyes] (Judas Priest)

[And I don’t know where I’m going
But I know it’s going to be a long time] (Ellie Goulding)
[I like the way that your stomach knots] (Megadeth)
[You didn’t go to heaven, You’re down in hell with me.] (Megadeth)
[Pearls of wisdom hit the floor, There’s nothing you can do.] (Megadeth)
[But don’t say a word.] (Ellie Goulding)

[In some magnetic trance
Our beating hearts would dance
And crash down from afar.
Oh how strange fate is.
Never dreamed of this,
Fever—You set my soul on fire,
Fever—You fill me with desire,] (Judas Priest)
Fever—[I’m more alive I’ve ever been] (Ellie Goulding)
FEVER—[I WANNA BE THE KING!] (Megadeth)
[—So now I give you all my sin

I’ve chosen you; I’ve chosen you—
But don’t say a word.
And if I save us, and I fall down
I will leave your words behind now.] (Ellie Goulding)
[If you never, held me under,
If you never] [lost your dream (Ellie Goulding)
Why are we marching
In perfect harmony?
‘Cause you carry the burden,
Lost in this nightmare.] (Far From Reality)
[A storm is coming, get ready] (Megadeth)
You hesitate, I don’t care
Here I am, for I have come—
[Louder than an atom bomb {and}
Brighter than a thousand suns!] (Judas Priest)

So [Like a good old-fashioned beating
Within inches of your life;] (Megadeth)
[All the little cuts will bleed!] (Falling Up)
And [Don’t ask anyone for help,
They won’t know what to do,] (Megadeth)
[Every day, passing by,
seems closer than yesterday] (Far From Reality)
[The quickest way to end the war
Is lose.] [You never hear my thunder.] (Megadeth) (Ellie Goulding)

[Goodness Gracious, I can’t seem to stop] (Ellie Goulding)
[I could almost be the ghost of myself] (Fractal Cypher)
[And there is a law of Destiny,
that the soul which attains any vision of truth
in company with a god
is preserved from harm until the next period,] when (Plato)
[I have returned, armed with pages of text,
Till I saw a clear way to die] (Far From Reality)
[With mankind resurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from Armageddon to the sk{y}] (Judas Priest)

[—You better learn to dance in the rain,
Instead of wait for the sun,] (Megadeth)
[Spread your wings and take flight over the hills,] (Almah)
[Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave] (Judas Priest)
[Now walk the earth!] (Falling Up)

Life ends when we feel no pain—
—Until then, we strive—
Choked that the beginning—
[You exhaust me in the most beautiful way.
You inspire me at my most terrific
And at my most degenerate.] (To be Continued)
[Now I know that I’m alive,
All the loneliness is filled
By you, inside] (Falling Up)
(Stay) Listen to
All my dreams, love that lasts, pain that heals
And take, take your time
But move so fast, ’cause hearts move on—
This ti-i-i-ime it means something
(Dreams will fall, love will spill)
This ti-i-i-ime it means—
*guitar bridge*
THIS TIME.] (Falling Up)

[Seems this house is bursting at the seams.
Oh no.
Is it fine to say I’m ready to believe?
Stay here,
Closer.] (Falling Up)
[My life is everything
That feeds my thirst
That causes sin
My wants are all I care
No shame and guilt,
there’s nothing there] (Megadeth)
[My heart, it hurts, ‘Cause it never catches its breath
—I’m still staying when I should have left
Come to where the waters meet the shore—I’ll be there
And I will stay, leaving you] (Falling Up)
[Flashing sharp, don’t be afraid,] (Falling Up)
[In this moment things are getting dangerous,] (Falling Up)
[Against your heart; don’t be afraid!] (Falling Up)

[The names of the artists were added later, to prove plagiarisms.
– Alexandre Jutt]

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