An Old Soul

Life is strange when you’re an old soul

Been a long time since you opened that door

Experienced lives in the past whether young or poor

What expectations are left in store?

Love is an elusive chase

Seemed I never could keep up the pace

Something about the ruthless human race

Perhaps I just fell from grace,

Give me lies in paradise

All truth seems in disguise

Before I’m a corpse covered in flies

Before the hope inside me dies,

Too many regrets from the past

Those kinds of regrets that last

Like St. Elmo ’s Fire from the mast

The wrong actor for this role to be cast,

I tried every way sometimes praying everyday

It’s not your words but the way you say

You don’t think you’re going to stay

Think I’ve had enough for one day,

Often scorned and misinformed

Seems like from the truth I was torn

As a war baby I was born

Often I was from another world I could’ve sworn,

Alienation my old friend

Those old greeting you sometimes send

That useless pride that never bends

While I await the bitter end,

Stumbling blind in a misty park

The scent of moist tree bark

Did they ever really find Noah’s ark?

I’m just sitting here in the dark.