Poetry

Deteriorating
written March 2002

So cold & lonely
a fallen society
too sick to see each other's disease
We are our father's children
stuff it down & hide it all away
tongue the barrel head & beg for yesterday

So critical & thoughtless
society's prisoners in a mirror
too blind to see the protruding bones
We are our mother's children
can't let go of yesterday
Swallow another diet pill & beg for a better tomorrow

Now the world spins round
the crying loses it's sound
cemeteries cease to fill
hearts beat without a will

So empty & apathetic
whores to any release
too high to see the bags under our eyes
We are our own children
don't care for yesterday
mainline while moaning, "Please make this go away"