Pure Life, Interrupted.

Pure Life, Interrupted.

Idle minds dreaming of highs found in times of past, longing for sunshine underneath future’s bright breath Effervescent wishes not yet born into light with insistent desperation calling into the night Broken children craving lands they have not seen, residing in the sewers of lost hopeful dreams Incessant demands of what life should mean, as functionality becomes frozen from harmful misdeeds of those who claim ownership of their souls

They sit still in waiting for a timely escape from the hell they know too well haunting them every day

They sit still, patiently hoping to one day be met with the visual of what life looks like outside the blackened windows that keep them where they are

—

Blue Serenity: Phase 0 Pure Life; Conditioned Into Darkness #2

written by Dan Roberts

Blue Serenity: Phase 1 Hollow Nights Under Starry Skies

Flower.

I am a delicate flower that blooms in bright colours and wilts as the time goes by because nothing lasts forever and despite all my potential beauty, I always rest in dark by the night

I cannot seem to handle real life and tend to do anything to simulate being alive because I am a man inside his feelings not aware of the way he should be living, rolling with the punches day by day

I never speak to others for it is all too hard I long to share my interests and dreams so they can see the cool sides of me but all that I do is fail because I get tongue-tied and quiet I really want to be the man I know that I can be instead of the actor crying in between the scenes

When I do not thrive in the natural ways, I water myself differently

I get high and I drink Frankly, I will do anything to avoid thinking Perhaps this is the way I have always been though I wish that was not true at all

But despite the darkness I know to be alive and true, I understand that I want to change for I do not want to be the same as the boy I was just yesterday What can I do to make it all go away?

Today, I pray that one day this will never be the same I am going to let it all pour away and hope to see paradise after the rain

—

Blue Serenity: Phase 1 Hollow Nights Under Starry Skies #2

written by Dan Roberts

Blue Serenity is a story-based project created by Dan Roberts to be published through online platforms. It was written from the ages of 17-21 years old originally in the form of music and lyrics that have now been repurposed into a poetry format. Through six different parts (dubbed phases), you will be taken on a journey through different life chapters and extremes that lead into the perspective the writer currently harbours.

These confessional and fantasy-based stories represent different emotional extremes the author has experienced as they navigate the themes of teenage development, young adulthood, depression, loneliness, substance use and misuse, romantic relationships, emotional and sexual abuse, death, healing and self-improvement.

“Darkness looms about everywhere but so does beauty.”

Forbidden Beauty.

What is beauty is what they have forbidden It is what they admire within us and all they have ever aimed to destroy

We were outlined a path to colour in and had no choice but to betray our fingertips in order to portray what would be rewarded We became the evil we swore we would never be after following the instructions subjected to us We were at an early age taught the act of conformity that eventually erased our true beauty

But what is beauty is what is natural It was what we possessed all along but lost at the hands of those disrupting the joy of a life lived pure and true

What is beauty is the rough edges of a life lived natural, true, ugly and unclean All the things we were forbidden to be

What is beauty is all we lost early on and it meets us at our point of suffering that continues to exist actively

We are all broken reflections of beauty, stolen

—

Blue Serenity: Phase 0 Pure Life; Conditioned Into Darkness #4

written by Dan Roberts

Cast Away.

They are searching for me because I continue to breathe as I am Now, they are hunting me They want my blood on their fingertips I am a runaway easily found within plain view because the reasons I was cast away were for expressing my many beautiful hues

They withdrew me from my outer space and held me captive for a hundred days The grand opportunity to create a life for myself holds no meaning within a deceitful world that delivers me nothing but continuous harm

What did I do? I always mind my own business yet find myself locked within these spaces where I am punished for authenticity

What did I do? Who did I anger? Why is it that I must suffer?

Whenever I start doing what is best for me, I find targets latched into my back, reminding me how conformity will be chasing me forever

It is a miserable fact I resent everyday

—

Blue Serenity: Phase 0 Pure Life; Conditioned Into Darkness #6

written by Dan Roberts