Today, I wake to find my life
is more than I can deal with;
I’ve lost the apparatus that
I used to use to feel with
A world of hatred everywhere:
it never, never sleeps –
And promises die lonely,
there’re so few that mankind keeps
And truth is lost within the crowd,
or locked within a vault;
While folks buy into politics
as though it were a cult
So why do we embrace
the many failures of mankind?
Why don’t we see we’re headed
towards a cliff, and we’re all blind?
Because, among the many of
our myriad addictions;
Is the unceasing vanity
of our erstwhile convictions
And so, we’re blown about like leaves
who’ve left the sacred trees;
We’re cut off from our living source
by our anxieties
Among our many enemies,
who will not need a sword:
We’re classified,
objectified,
discarded, and
ignored