The Realization

Is this the truth or merely folklore?

Is that a creature I see just offshore?

Is this bathing beauty really trustworthy that I adore?

Is life really worth living anymore?

The deception is clear it’s everywhere

You can tell by the cruel unsympathetic stares

Few reach out anymore no one really cares

The fecal dust settles on a tent city over there,

Hard anymore to make a decision

In a society separated by division

Are we going out again on another secret mission?

So much unnecessary interpersonal friction,

When you wear your heart out on your sleeve

You’ll be smitten with pet peeves

You’ll wonder why your spouse leaves

You’re beginning to see the web you now perceive,

Things haven’t gone the way you planned

They have perverted this godforsaken land

But it didn’t happen by your own hand

Still she looked good in a bikini all trim and tanned,

My mother and father singing to me from their graves

My boyhood memories come to me in waves

Are we no better than the way primates behave?

Then the realization comes to me we’re all debt slaves.