Are you insignificant?
Unimportant, on your own?
Just a single tiny speck
In a universe unknown?Or are you instead a node
Interwoven with us all?
Bearing your part of the load,
Sending ripples when you fall?Does nothing in life matter?
Or do all our actions count?
Do all our choices scatter,
Regardless of the amount?Make your choice and live with it,
Whichever one that may be.
For you, either one may fit;
I know the right choice for me.
– Shaman Romney 2019
I’m a chameleon
I’m a shade
A faded thought
An empty memory
An illusion brought to bear
By the insanity of one unaware
Of his place among himself
Let alone the world
– Shaman Romney 2019
Too long.
It’s been too long.
Too long since I last head your song;
The sweet melody of your laughter
Ringing throughout the house.
Now, there is only a melancholy melody
Slowly fading as the distance grows
Too long.
It’s been too long.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Suicidal thoughts ought to be shared with those closest to you.
It is what Romeo and Juliet taught us all to do.
They were a comedy of errors, a tragedy of youth.
Let’s die together, shall we?Where I have gotten older, both much meeker and much bolder;
Although I could continue to shoulder this burden with you,
This boulder is too heavy, and I am not getting stronger.
So let’s just give in, shall we?Those who surround us, who don’t understand, would call it a waste.
Haven’t we had enough of life to know it isn’t for us?
We will never aquire from life our life’s aquired taste.
So let’s spit it out, shall we?For it isn’t real true love if I only give you my life
And so I pledge my existence, my story’s ending, to you.
With this final act our love springs eternal for all to view.
Let’s die together, shall we?
– Shaman Romney 2019
If you let your dreams be dreams
They will become your nightmares
And you will be caught unawares
In a life that isn’t yours
Your bars are made of your regrets
Your last meal is life untasted
In your haste to live for others
You rushed to your own conclusion
– Shaman Romney 2019
There was a man who was a mask
And every where he’d go
He’d show the world another face
One nobody would know
He’d walk all over, street to street
He’d wander day to day
And every passerby he’d greet
A new and different way
And no one new when he would come
No one knew when he’d leave
No one knew what he had in mind
The cards hid up his sleeve
And though the specter of this man
Loomed in the town so tall
When all took time to stop and think
No one knew the man at all
– Shaman Romney 2019
Sadness is a blanket draped across;
A curtain blocking out the light.
A rock slowly overgrown with moss.
A chill on a dark winter night.Sadness is a badly needed pause
When something doesn’t go quite right.
A moment to identify cause;
Nothing to flee, try as we might.Sadness contrasts the best in our life;
Perspective when our heart takes flight.
A warning alarm for times of strife.
A moment’s calm before the fight.Sadness makes all more erudite:
Ignore it’s wisdom at your plight.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Life is an investment you pay for with time;
Interests accrue seconds of interest.
And money is much more than nickel and dime,
It’s a symbol of effort you did divest.All too often we view our life as a game;
We buy up the tickets and hope that they pay.
Our lives are real, and are usually tame.
The lottery is throwing our time away.If we save our minutes and value hours
Bank all our efforts, and keep looking forward.
We’ll be there when our life finally flowers
And we will be able to reap our reward.So always remember: your time is your own,
How you spend it is your decision alone.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Don’t you wish you had answers
For the demons in your head?
The questions that fill your heart
With anxiety and dread?Don’t you wish that you could know
What it means to be alive?
That you’d understand the point
Of why you suffer and strive?At the end will you wonder
If there was a point at all?
Or were you just a puppet
Moving at fate’s beck and call?When you cut through all the grief,
The self inflicted violence,
Will your self still be yourself
When left alone in silence?
– Shaman Romney 2019
First, take a deep breath;
You know it’s been a while,
But now you’re going to have to fall with style.Second, gauge the distance;
Is it a few feet or a mile?
Who knows how far you’ll have to fall with style?Third, don’t sweat the details
While in this public trial.
‘Cause they don’t matter when you fall in style.And last, embrace your fate.
As you jump, just crack a smile.
For that’s the only way to fall in style.
– Shaman Romney 2019
Shame on The Universe 