If You’re Humanoid

Just a lonely man doing a soft shoe

On a stage that nobody will view

All his once held beliefs gone askew

Everyone’s gone now and the children too,

In life we all tend to dance around the dew

Yet, when it hits we ask, “Who knew?”

Seems all life’s problems came right on cue

Wasn’t it a surprise when they were overdue?

When the rain comes beating down at my door

I no longer ask, “What for?”

Happens so often now why not more?

Think I’d rather be one of the last Condors,

Bodies and debris washed up onto the darkened shore

The scene became too intense to ignore

Then there were all the mysteries to explore

No magical Hollywood endings to adore,

There’s a forgotten birthday cake that went stale a long time ago

It was once something to look forward to now something to forego

Once upon a time long before I suffered that blow

Funny how all those regrets creep in from below,

People walk away very quickly as if I don’t realize

All those opportunities I may have compromised

All the love that was somehow euthanized

The way in which I became ostracized,

Now living in this timeless void

Seems the rest of the world is quite annoyed

The atmosphere seems to be provocatively paranoid

You can’t avoid these perceptions if you’re humanoid.