The Edge of Night

I’ve been looking down the road

Not too optimistic truth be told

Uncertainty and darkness ala mode

Memories become a heavy load,

Trying to outrun the edge of night

And remove her from my sight

Opening my eyes to catch the daylight

A whole world living in fright,

The insanity stretches across the seas

Some kind of mental cultural disease

Happens when too many people get squeezed

When out of weakness you attempt to appease,

I see the smoke just over the hill

One more corpse from a fentanyl pill

Vaccine caused another baby to be born still

Some bureaucrat shut down the sawmill,

No way to get back to yesterday

Might want to go to church and pray

Fewer and fewer spouses choose to stay

Few will be ready when it’s time to pay,

Looking further down the road

A man has to live by a certain code

Or he may find a sinful overload

I fear the river of insanity has overflowed,

Looking at all you lonely girls

With your tattoos and golden curls

It seems your whole world just unfurls

All for the sake of vanity and pearls,

Never thought it could be like this

Staring face to face at the abyss

A foolish man and a poison kiss

And you wonder why your life’s amiss.