The Muffled Applause

Please oh Lord don’t disparage me

My own memories are quite enough to torment me

I saw someone lying along the avenue of pity

They needed a Good Samaritan in this decaying city,

Life has become a twisted trail

Sometimes all I can do is just exhale

You can no longer tell a female from a male

This broken world that evil has unveiled,

What is the greater travesty of justice?

The beauty that I often miss

Or the sound of a serpent’s hiss

Life wasn’t supposed to be like this,

When society turned its back on God

It opened Pandora’s Box to betrayal and fraud

Open you’re your eyes fools, doesn’t that seem a bit odd?

From the mental hospital I can hear a muffled applaud,

The implications of arrogance and pride

Has devastated America nationwide

The ghosts of a civil society abide

Might has well have exhumed Dracula’s bride,

Keeping watch on the perimeter tonight

Targets being painted with laser light

Adrenaline flowing to run or take flight

It’s a matter of retaining our rights,

I can’t quite remember anymore how

The fools here would do the bidding of Chairman Mao

Something in America has run afoul

While the sleepwalkers and traitors disavow.