Lucid Lyrics Designed to Expand Minds (Part 2)
Good day Steemians! Today I'll be sharing another original poem / lyrical verse with 
Many of the verses I'll be sharing were written in collaboration with a friend of mine. I find that collaboration brings many benefits most of which revolve around having someone to bounce ideas off of and sort of be challenged to pick up where the other has left off.
I'd say that this piece was a bit dark but it revolves around a positive theme of persistance and being unwilling to accept defeat. I hope you enjoy it!
Checkmate
There have been times in life when we’ve all faced a checkmate...
Its never been too hard to relate...
So let me spit a bit of strategy to dissipate some fallacies..
Is it an abnormality to refuse to accept the brutality?
Put on my spectacles sift thru the sullied mantra of a sorry mainstream message desperate to get a glimpse of a new reality.
Saw the professor giving lectures while the light was shining bright both stringing their words together cleverly crafting their makeshift prophecies...
Saw the fate of human beings forced to compete in the 9-5 rat race or gain a competence in botany.
It'll take a couple choice steps to avoid the monotony and evade the new world lobotomy which could be but aint gotta be...
What do you think about the role of luck in life?
I'll play that scarface like Tony Montana I aint going out without a fight.
If I want it I get it and on a positive mission without a moment of regret aint that a breath of fresh air why would I point these things out if I didn’t care?
But always got a sec to examine one of lifes great lessons...
Flashback, a pistol to my head and a chance to be left for dead… wow… guess that’s what we get for second guessin our own intuition.
Neglected a rule of the game designed to keep a player consistent.
If it’s a lyrical competition I'll win the middle weight division with the strength and determination of a Mike Bisping.
Comparing winners to losers abstainers to boozers its your attitude that chooses just exactly what to do with your life.
Ill second Emerson in what he said that strong men don’t believe in luck they believe in cause and effect..
In regard to luck it was Jefferson that said ‘the harder I work the more that I have of it.’
And I’ll add to that… what you put in is what you get out of it…
Final Thoughts on 'Checkmate'
After revisiting this verse, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out!
I find that in long writing sessions that sometimes last weeks or even months it seems to do something to my mind, changing it in a way and really connecting me to a hidden source of inspiration. I'd say that there's definitely momentum involved, perhaps a better ability to connect to true expression.
The words in 'Checkmate' still ring as true as the day I wrote them. That is my definition of progress right there!
I really want to connect with readers on this topic and see what any of you may have to add to the ideas presented above.
Did this verse affect you in any way? If so, please do tell below in the comments section!
Authored by: Zentalk