Banishment

In our varied states of disorder
 we act and react
 Punishment for our actions
 have been silenced... dispelled as cruelty
 The deeds of unbalanced achievement
 undeservingly awarded
 (We are all innocent...)
 The refusal to punish erodes discipline
 self respect and respect for others
 Rewarding the careless and serving an
 abundance of indignity to those who
 truly gave all that was to be given
 (We are all addicts...)
 To the suffering of others
 To witness something rise as high as it's
 celestial paramount
 and celebrate with madness in our eyes
 as it falls
 To our murderous nature
 even those in their benevolence
 will find the sweat
 of their efforts corrode and weaken structure
 destruction in numbers
 To useless intelligence
 Garbage information that fills a mind to
 become less focused
 for common knowledge, less inclined to
 envision solution
 Once something is consumed with decay
 it is only fit for extraction
 Carved, assembled and cast off
 into the voyage of our individual surroundings
 A doomed vessel led only to drift itself
 throughout amassed mob thought
 Passing beneath the clouded horror of any
 communal action not being accepted
 and praised instantaneously
 A pathetic husk from where the shavings of
 our truest potential began
 Seek abandon
 It's never too late to return to that quiet place
 The place that was there before
 all you ever knew
 An infinity void of horizons
 Tear at yourself and find your truths
 Layer by layer of flesh and muscle
 to the cords that control your every move
 to the last drop of your every essence
 beneath it all, you will find what has always
 been yours
 Innocence