Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say
What is lost can never be saved…
~*~
REALITY STAGE PLAY
Crafty pickpockets and sickly grey puppets
Thieving rats scuttling around the broken set
Lose your depleted wallet, cause a huge racket, try to defend
Get beaten up, the curtain drops, but the show never really ends.
~*~
DEAR CHARLOTTE
Writing sweet letters to his dearest Charlotte
Never once discovering that she was a closet harlot
And whispering false promises in desperation to another John
Burning useless money for the company of anyone.
~*~
EXTINGUISHED HOPE
Her child cries wild, his stomach screaming of hunger
As she struggles to balance on the bridge they live under
Cradling him, saying promises, singing a lullaby to soothe
Even though the stars had already gone out in her universe.
~*~
PARASITE FARM
Germs of society, no one is safe from harm
A ground full of bloated worms, a parasitic farm
Bacteria masticating away at the resources like a rabid pig
Eating at the core of the world in their frenzy of greed.
~*~
BUTTERFLY WINGS
Living in a crimson world dominated by guns
Where the criminals are free and the innocents run
And all a child could do is attach butterfly wings to a bullet
A last-minute innocence before they get murdered by it.
~*~