My Perpetual Friend

Always knew you'd never understand me

You sailing in your velvet sea

Always dressed so promiscuously

As if life were your own personal fantasy,

We're all riding on our egos so self righteously

But we're just injured ballplayers with a twisted knee

Wounded soldiers bleeding out slowly

Children living fearfully in an adult’s body,

Lonely heartbroken men spread across the land

Some trying to make their final stand

The truth has now become contraband

Too many today who can’t keep up with the demand,

You ask me what I am living for

I’m trying not to close the door

Seems like the attractive ones consider me a bore

                                             Waiting for a letter in a bottle by the shore,

Every time life pulls away

Another pretty face just fades to gray

All the love I might have conveyed

Yet, it all somehow went astray,

Living long enough to carry on the fight

Without the arms that would hold me tight

Their teeth shine as if to define my plight

The unfaithful mistress always seemed so polite,

Betrayal, my perpetual friend

Don’t think I’ll find true love again

Here I sit with a poison pen

Echoes from some forbidden den,

“Take no prisoners,” so they say

As all hope fades away

The dreams of a nation end in dismay

All of us engulfed in life’s one act play,

Seeking dreams to escape in flight

Trying not to let the disappointments bite

Faith in the future so very slight

Love lost like a runaway kite,

 Guinevere where have you gone?

These lonely nights live on and on

I chase the queen of slumber until dawn

Those impossible dreams to which I’m drawn.