Didn’t Quite Work Out

You were always good at tying your shoes

Never thought in the game of life you’d lose

Then you found out most people don’t have a clue

Seems you never stop having to pay your dues,

In this world full of frenzied events

Getting harder to find any confidence

Especially when you have a lying president

Tent cities and human excrement,

Didn’t quite work out so here you are

Things fizzled out just like a shooting star

And you anticipated going so far

She learned about love in the backseat of a car,

There are always alternatives

How to strike back at where the megalomaniacs live

Is this what happens when you give and give?

Betrayed so many times it’s hard to outlive,

The night moves in and casts an ominous shadow

Just like the death of variety shows

Wondering who left those huge footprints in the snow

Watching your life decline blow by blow,

Sadly for you she had a troubled childhood

Couldn’t make it work even if it was good

Always settling for what you could

But doing less than you should,

Lost potential victimizing us all

Gone are the blissful days at the mall

Did we set ourselves up for the final fall?

Integrity and truth, an order much too tall.