Pardon Me if I Stare

What was and will never be again

Where are all those friends?

They claim time will always mend

All the lies I’ve endured hard to defend,

Strolling in a park beneath a sky of blue

Can’t figure out why I dreamed of you

That alternate reality all askew

Visons in the night come into view,

Entities that don’t belong appear

Sharing the same atmosphere

This world is locked in orchestrated fear

That threatening face you see in the mirror,

Cutting through the invisible tension with a blade

The paranoia was tailor made

You left when you should have stayed

There’s no truth we’re always being played,

And so it is as I lay in my bed

Wrestling with all these thoughts in my head

The rest of the world trembles in dread

The opiate of the masses they’ve been fed,

The memories that are irrevocably there

Just misery to be shared

Is that a super nova that just flared?

A glint in the universe someone else’s nightmare,

Just try to speak the truth if you dare

The satellites are dead another solar flare

For many life has become too great a burden to bare

I’m at the ancient crossroads pardon me if I stare.