This Unfamiliar Terrain

Wrote a song today on my piano

Soft mournful and slow

Outside the morning dew took on a glow

Memories of love lost have taken their toll,

So much water from under the bridge

There’s a desperate fire fight on the ridge

Oh prostitute of destiny will you move over a smidge

In the final analysis who really has privilege?

A walk just the other day through an urban battlefield

The dead are buried now and their lips are sealed

Mankind the bruised banana so freshly peeled

The drugs you rely upon the perfect shield,

The home wrecker you are both near and far

Dwindling to nothing now because of who you are

That’s why only the broken hearted wish upon a star

Being too candid now can expose your mental scars,

Let me thank you lady love for the bumpy ride

Thanks to your betrayal I can never hide

Hope you join the others on their downward slide

You gave me your ultimatum but I just couldn’t decide,

I hear you’re in the desert now surrounded by fear

I can’t believe we ever shared the same atmosphere

Now I smell fire and brimstone whenever you’re near

Your overtures of love were always so insincere,

Drifting through life in a sea of pain

Thinking most of my achievements were all in vain

Oh God save me from the devil’s reign

I fear I’ll go insane in this unfamiliar terrain.