January Covers

I've been somewhat musically prolific.
"I never would have given you up
If you only hadn't given me up."

"You want me?
Fucking come on and break the door down. 
I'm ready."

"This is how it works:
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath."

Shooting Range Haiku

I am a painter.
I never had the right brush.
Second Amendment.

- afm

Poisoned Haiku

She sank her fangs in,
So I sucked out the venom
And swallowed it down.

- afm

A Balance in Faith Haiku

There is a balance,
But why did I regain faith
For you to lose yours?

- afm

Vacant Haiku

My house was foreclosed. 
You declared residency. 
The rooms are still bare.

- afm

The Mind of the Beholder Haiku

Crazy in the mind,
Much like beauty to the eye,
Is the beholder's.

- afm

Life of a Digger

Sick and I can't take it, or maybe I just fake it. Either way, your mentality truly affects your physicality, so I try not to embrace it. Tell my mental that I hate it. If I can trace back the steps that lead me to digress then I could get this off my chest and erase it. Face it, facing yourself is impossible. That's what mirrors are for. But my reflection will never be a true representation of me, just one perception perceived by what I want to see. Frustration overcomes. I smash in every one. Too afraid to face the day and see what I've become. Seven years of ill fate. Nineteen years of mistakes. Pull the curtains. Block the sun. You're worthless. The devil won. Idle hands. Fuck your friends. What friends? You have none. This isn't real life. It's just a dry run. Close your eyes and wake up! Make amends? Make an end. To start again is too rough. Buy the bullets and the gun. Bye bye, cruel world! This sure was fun. Sick and I can't take it, or maybe I just fake it. Either way, if I had good health and great wealth, I'd still end up in the hole that I dug. The life of a digger. Pull the trigger Pull the plug.

- afm

Unsafe Camp

A mark across the fence.
Don't let the wrong ones in.
I'm begging to begin.
To wander will depend
If I'll ever move again.
I'm hanging up my limbs.

Tired.
Oh, so tired
From all the events
That transpired.
To carry on will only do me wrong,
So I must retire.

Better stop when the getting's good.
I was childish, a common fool
For thinking seeds could grow.
I planted them so deep in soil
That eventually they spoiled.
I stood waiting for the sprouts to show.

They breached an empty host
As I abandoned post.
Was there ever life below?
Rotting in the soil,
My limbs have all recoiled.
I guess I'll never know.

- afm

From Branches to Roots

The branches seek new heights. They stretch out farther than imaginable and attempt to cradle the sun, but they forget about their leaves. They are careless. So eager to clench Heaven's light, they dismiss the certainty to catch aflame. Their fingers burn. Their wrists recoil. Their hands decay. Their arms whither to the root of it; all the way down to the smoldering core that rose them from nothing. From wood to ash. From high-rise to base. From beings to soil. That is how the world changes. That is how it also stays the same.

- afm

Top Albums of 2015

A list of my top 10 albums in 2015. Feel free to share some of your favorites!

10) The Color Before the Sun by Coheed and Cambria

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Colors, Here to Mars, Peace to the Mountain

9) Found In Far Away Places by August Burns Red

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Martyr, Broken Promises, Marathon

8) Connector by I the Mighty

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Psychomachia, (No) Faith in Fate, The Frame I: Betrayal in the Watchtower

7) Summertime '06 by Vince Staples

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Jump Off The Roof, 3230, Like It Is

6) My Love Is Cool by Wolf Alice

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Turn to Dust, Your Loves Whore, Freazy

5) In Colour by Jamie xx

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Loud Places, The Rest Is Noise, Girl

4) Every Waking Eye by CHVRCHES

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Leave a Trace, High Enough to Carry You Over, Bury It

3) B4.Da.$$ by Joey Badass

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Save the Children, Paper Trail$, Christ Conscious

2) Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise by The Dear Hunter

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FAVORITE TRACKS: Waves, A Night on the Town, Wait

1) To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar

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FAVORITE TRACKS: For Free? (Interlude), u, How Much a Dollar Cost