The Perfect Lies

Time is like an ocean with its secrets running deep

Like all the lovers you’ve jilted with the promises you didn’t keep

All their lives you've made so slippery and so steep

All those opportunities before you but you were fast asleep,

Life is like a candle just flickering in the wind

Didn’t know what to expect before you could begin

No medal on your chest that will be pinned

You’ve been caught in your delusion so wipe off that silly grin,

It’s at the very moment you realize

You’ve been betrayed by that look in her eyes

The world lashes out at you from the perfect disguise

Substitution of the truth with well contrived lies,

Just when you’ve thought that you have finally thrived

Comes the notice that the final curtain has arrived

Recalling those moments that in your mind have crystallized

Making it hard at times to even feel alive,

You worship a dictator with an infectious smile

But it’s the honest hard working man that you revile

It’s this distorted state of existence that will make you feel beguiled

So far away from simply being an innocent child,

Your life on this planet just a glimpse in time

You run the risk of being accused of a crime

A place where tragedy and fortune will often combine

Some will find the puzzle too difficult to define,

A passageway of darkness sending chills up your spine

House arrest is where you’ll be confined

Will you carry the flowers for the procession if you don’t mind?

Any regrets now that you hadn’t been a little more kind?

Do you often wonder had the odds shifted just a bit?

Perhaps the wonder of an extraterrestrial visit

If only the pathway of life had been a little better lit

So many things deep inside you’re hesitant to admit,

Time is like an ocean with its secrets running deep

Like all the lovers you’ve jilted with the promises you didn’t keep

All their lives you've made so slippery and so steep

All those opportunities before you but you were fast asleep.