Rodney Dufault

We've all this blood passing through our ventricles
snaking through our bodies just like tentacles.
Without heart's our brain's are only vegetables,
and the language of love would be unintelligible.
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You are the only one for me and you always have been.
What you have done to me I never thought could happen.
You found a way under me; Broke through my substratum.
I had destroyed me utterly, but you raised me a fathom.
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I just want to move on,
and be rid of the pain;
Now that my youth's gone,
and I'll be a kid not again.
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One twist of words, or one twist of fate
and this could be yours to contemplate.
Where is this earth across this space?
I have searched the universe. No trace.
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You want to hear something beautiful from me?
You wanna hear about the birds and the bees?
Or what I heard from the trees?
Or how about the Earth turns...Please.
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Most of the time I feel like my brain don't think like yours.
Whatever you are thinking, I think of differently I'm sure.
While you think of ways to not let people through your door;
I'm thinking of how to keep them from ever stepping on my shores.
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When this winter comes
if there is no little sun
I will get us one.
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I don't think I see myself in the same light in which you do,
but which one of us is right? Is it me or is it you?
They say it doesn't matter what you think, but I don't think that's true,
for people always find wrong answers in conclusions that they drew.
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I try hard to be selfless, and grow in my stature.
Shit that I've dealt with helped me forgo the latter.
Sights I've beheld; Shit, you tell me don't matter.
Still, I have to tell it; Or else I grow madder.
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If the road to Hell is truly paved with good intentions -
Well, I have so many of those that most I never mention.
Let's just say this road is very long by my very own invention.
And even though I'm very strong, I'm now at an intersection.
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This world is dying, can you all not see it?
We all should love every single human being.
A hero to this world, I feel I could be it.
Why do I feel like I'm the one who should free it?
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Later in life I'll think I could've been a better dad
even though I give my son everything I never had.
I do everything to ensure that he's never sad.
I teach him what to do not just punish him when he's bad.
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Life is a long road full of convolution.
Constantly on the search for the solution
to finding a way to some absolution,
but is this really humanity's evolution?
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You might see me dancing around a fire calling for raindrops,
or maybe way up high above the earth embarking on spacewalks,
and I have so much spirit that I am at every single seance,
even when I was little drawing pentagrams 'fore there was crayons.
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I saw the beast in you
and I have seen the beast in me,
but the beast I fear the most
is the beast that's running free.
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All I want is a little solidarity,
so I skip therapy voluntarily,
more happy with familiarity,
and my struggle of bipolarity,
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Every word I say is true
and every time I look at you
I say one thing I know you knew,
and that thing is that I love you.
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Damn, I just had the worst day/ had some turd say/ that my wordplay/ was third grade/ because I wouldn't curse hate/ but there's no worse fate/ than a fake verse spake/ to send you through reverse space/ I think ya'll need a word brace/ before you crumble like the world trades/ and you can end up in a hearse case/ if you disperse waste/ so put away your purse mace/ and nevermind who's first place/ I've loved this ever since I heard 'Face/ and keep up on it at an absurd pace/ and if this was all a bird race/ I've got two fingers right in third place/ so learn grace/ and see how every word's placed/ I turn rage into pages/ and make you nervous like a first date/ I'm an irate/ primate/ hot headed like desert climate/ I thirst lakes/ my nerve's ache/ and in the worst case/ I'm violent/ a giant/ causin' earthquakes/ from the first state/ all the way to the universe's birthplace/ mostly silent/ and defiant/ in the face of the law 'cause I aint buyin' it/ threw me in the wild/ expectin' me to die in it/ but I crawled outta the lion pit/ now I've got a child cub I've sired/ and a lioness/ the magnifier/ of my desire/ who I inspire with/ the strength I have acquired/ and all that I require's this/ my family is my entire bliss/ and if you think that makes me tired/ shit/ I'll fill my mouth with gasoline and spit the hottest fire/ bitch/ punch you in the iris/ with an iron fist/ your spinelessness/ has spread like wildfire/ viruses/ but I resist/ and climb ever higher/ immune to piousness/ and liars/ and I aspire/ to remain riotous/ until the day that I am finally dust/ I insist/ to assist you/ in your decision/ to desist fool/ before I rip you/ a new one in your cranial tissue/ I take issue/ with the misuse/ and abuse/ I have been through/ solely because that is what men do/ so I invent who? / Syrax the maniac in my mental/ I'm actually a brainiac/ who act's like a devil/ in fact/ I'm on my way back/ from an attack/ on your central/ nervous that my system is not impervious to men who/ pretend to/ befriend you/ then when it comes time to defend you/ they just end you/ just like my pad and my pen do/ lyrically rend you/ into so many pieces that nobody could mend you/ I defeat legions with my pencil/ and only swear allegiance/ to my regents/ who have been true/ throughout the seasons/ from ninety four to the most recent/ decent/ men and women who I respect for many reasons/ angels and heathens/ I love you all the same and forgive you of your treasons/ we all have our demons/ I have so many that I can even feel 'em breathin'/ and screamin'/ when I'm sleepin'/ or daydreamin'/ inside my head and I can't beat 'em/ but I need to defeat 'em/ so I can proceed to my freedom/ I just need the keys/ and the cure for this disease/ that keeps me beat up.
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I was born out of hate and fear you see/ used to be/ I loved everyone near to me/ as they appeared to me/ because they appeared to be/ dear to me/ now disappeared to me/ kinda weird to me/ because I still feel 'em here with me/ and it aint fair to me/ I can't be there to see/ if they'd still be there for me/ or even care for me/ or dare to be/ rare to me/ and share with me/ like a family/ I'm an anomaly/ in harmony/ with the army of me/ sometimes I even alarm me/ and no one can harm me/ you see/ or disarm me/ with your blarney/ and fake speech/ so stay out of my reach/ I beseech you/ to let me teach you/ to stop being see through/ people/ good and evil/ something we pull/ from the minds of the weak folk/ but I keep hope/ conquer steep slopes/ and weak ropes/ got deep hopes/ I keep most/ so close/ you'd need a microscope/ to see those/ I bleed prose/ and need no/ body to tell me where we go/ I see those/ like wendigo's/ human flesh eating/ ego's/ reap souls/ from the deep holes/ you leave inside your people/ I see it through my peek hole/ and seek no/ further human interaction/ but I'm not weak, no/ I just need a distraction/ my own faction/ to call into action/ show my dissatisfaction/ with the way that it has been/ not relaxin'/ lack of passion/ question askin'/ answers lackin'/ attackin'/ everything at maximimum/ and all I'm packin'/ is a sack and/ two big nuts for ya'll to snack on/ attractin'/ wild life since back when/ I was born in my parents crack den/ with a pad and a black pen/ sick as Hell even way back then/ a new jack/ who's back/ on the attack man/ I can swing this rap/ and wake you from your nap man/ Syrax/ more wolverine than Benoit or Jackman/ But my new weapon is calmness so you could say that I pack Zen/ Syber hack men/ I'm jacked in/ practicin'/ my verbal acumen/ to get me out this corner I feel backed in/ now go and heal your cracked chin/ you got smacked in/ stepped on you now look at what I tracked in/ crap man/ I'm everlastin'/ exactin'/ revenge upon you half-men.
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I just want to be positive and shine bright/ so I write more than one line a night/ 'cause a single line's a negative sign, right? / Still, I know I'm not quite alligned right/ I've the curse of behind sight/ no closure for things I didn't find right/ plowed through life in my blind plight/ keeping my heart and soul behind ice/ and it took me a long time to find light/ but I finally found that in my wife/ to whom I signed over my life/ she makes me feel alive like/ a child's eyes when they shine bright/ the most beautiful woman in my sight/ with her I can even defy night/ and I ain't even gotta close my eyes tight/ she's no longer surprised that Sy might/ at any time step into the limelight/ she know's how hard my mind fights/ a demon and a white knight/ or an alien leadin' with satellite sights/ or an emcee screamin' in an anthracite mic/ that might ignite/ when it hears what I write/ my life/ divided into five spice/ not Made in China like white rice/ I write about my lows along with my highlights/ and I guess that's just what I'm like/ when I rhyme tight/ try to be a night light/ for my child so he can find sight/ in the darkness of life's nights/ teach him wrong from right....right/ I don't even know that yet, a'ight tyke/ but that don't mean I won't keep trying to find out what it's like, right? / for you and your mom I'll do anything 'cept lay down my stripes....psych/ I don't need them anymore to show my brothers that my pride's spiked/ seeing them getting their life's right/ is one of the highlights through the strife. Light.
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