REFLECTIONS [Solace Zeta] [INTERLUDE] Verse 1: Never started/ Half-hearted/ Why it's regarded/ In high esteem/ Formulate/ & modulate/ Composition/ While I lie by a stream/ The condition fitting/ I listen as the inner noises/ Become voices/ & are rewritten/ Most die/ In ways incorrect,/ They try/ & pray but are subject/ To the same/ Endeavors/ No matter if lame/ Or clever/ Severe & clear/ The retribution/ Sought & wrought/ By fate/ Misplaced judgment/ Wasn't/ Prominent in the wake/ Of contemplation/ Too many comp-/ -lications/ Redirected/ Focus elsewhere/ Self-aware-/ -ness unaccepted/ Creating misguided/ Thoughts mistaken-/ -ly confided/ Control erased/ & divided/ Regrets shown/ Once it's known/ Becomes spited/ Correct/ Only in perspective/ Purpose/ In actuality/ Worth-/ -less thus deceptive/ Were you hearing/ But not listening/ Like you looked/ But didn't see/ Reflection/ Of your values/ Outlined/ By your reality… [INTERLUDE] Verse 2: Let loose/ Refining/ The mining/ Techniques/ To produce/ Diamonds/ Climbing/ Mountainous-peaks/ The open fountains/ 'll-just-sweep/ To the oceans/ Downwards/ Through the town-herds/ Like streams/ Winding dreams/ Around-curbs/ Of street-corners/ I meet-sojourners/ With crowned-verbs/ The sound-occurs/ But by bound-words/ I'm unable to express/ Fabled & eloquently/ Like an empress/ Just a fellow-sentry/ Here to impress/ I appear & address/ My mind-state/ With a mind-great/ Enough to stuff/ A turkey/ Or chicken/ For finger licking/ When I grab-the-mic/ Quench your appetite/ Surely/ While the worried-listen /to the hurried-diction/ Observe-me-fixing/ My tactics/ Lavish is the practice/ Ignoring-joints/ & scoring-points/ Like Sakic/ Hat-tricks/ It's ma-gic/ In the making/ Antagonists breaking/ Under the strain,/ Imagine-this quaking/ Like the Earth-crumbles/ The curse-stumbled/ Across by the lost/ I'm here to prevent/ Adhere to my intent… [INTERLUDE] Verse 3: Can't complain/ If I do abstain/ When it does pertain/ To my view-points/ New-points/ Profoundly/ Hound-me/ Roundly/ Brought-about/ Caught-without/ Direction/ Perfection/ Is what I'm driven-to/ I've ridden-through/ So many trails/ But it pales/ In comparison/ To what awaits-me/ It shakes-me/ But care-has-been/ Taken/ Not to forsaken/ My principles/ Sensible/ Is how I shall continue/ While my sinew/strengthens/ You're mistaken/ If you're thinking/ I awaken/ With a salary-/ -oriented/ Mentality/ For my story-ended/ And he lived/ Happily ever-after/ Forever-laughter/ Echoes/ Slithering/ Like geckos/ Dismembering/ Hatred & the heart-/ -less, our only defense/ Against the dark-/ -ness/ Were you hearing/ But not listening/ Like you looked/ But didn't see/ Reflection/ Of your values/ Outlined/ By your reality… [INTERLUDE]