Of a life that was never owned

"Common lessons we must learn    One do not break    The eternal cocoon that we spin     Round our filtered-colored souls    With cotton candy and fluffy pink lies    Endowed with defensive system..."

"Do not flicker among the whims of night    Somehow it just takes away the sighs    Never mind the simple tears you shed    Once they dry up, they are lost in the air    So push the bated breath in..."

"Twenty years in existenceYet what have I learnt?Twenty revolutions around the sunYet what have I done?Twenty candles on the cakeYet what have I seen? Twenty summers have I sweatedYet what have I becom..."

"They are everywhere The yellow arrows Boldly printed on trains, stations, buildings Dictating you where to walk, what to follow In the name of efficiency and smoothness During the peak hours And we ..."

"Purge The internal bleeding Out of the window Before the shattered panes Coming crashing into your rainbow light world That doesn't exist. Don't look or open your eyes.... The darkness will blind you..."

"Distant dreams of a faraway landA land that seemed so far nowYet once upon a time the land is homeYet once upon a time it's all I knowStranded in a foreign landSupposedly answering a nation's callFigh..."