Losing Your Grip

The anxiety over the loss

Even a rolling stone gathers moss

Mental meditation beneath the cross

Betrayed when you showed them who was boss,

Separating reality from fairytales

You got the wind knocked out of your sails

Tears can leave a bitter trail

When the going gets rough spouses will bail,

It all seems like a distant dream now

But they never arrested Chairman Mao

Just doesn’t seem to make sense somehow

You were clueless when you took that vow,

Drifting through as the days pass by

Losing your grip but still you deny

Yet, you’re way too young to die

Decent human beings are in short supply,

Standing on the very edge

When I take that plunge then I’ll pledge

For my body they’ll begin to dredge

Just because of the dogma they allege,

Singing that last lonely song

Never could figure out what went wrong

Didn’t you ever feel you don’t belong?

World stood by as they cracked down on Hong Kong,

My unknown epitaph as the world goes on

Like the mist of morning dew on the lawn

They don’t realize they’re only pawns

The fine line of normalcy has been redrawn.