Trying Not to Bleed

What is life but a series of set backs and victories
From love to personal attacks no worries?
Damage control for the soul my eyes get bleary
My Dear did you really plan this living misery?

In the darkened hours I write
There's only silence to hold me tight
Would it be easier to say things aren't quite right?
There's a shadow haunting me just out of sight,

A life lived trying to be loved trying to succeed
And when heartbreak hits trying not to bleed
Realizing the world has been poisoned by the devil's seed
We are all victims of that insatiable greed,

Where are you now I sometimes wonder
Probably laying another man's heart asunder
Is it the lightning or the sound of thunder?
Sometimes it seems my efforts are all plowed under,

The night is like a darkening glove
It marks the end of a day of push and shove
It fits over the finality of lost love
It casts a shadow over the fantasies love is made of,

I once lived in a land of make believe
There was nothing a utopia couldn't relieve
A man and a woman's hearts were supposed to cleave
Your lifelong partner was never supposed to leave,

I am now a graduate of that trial by fire
But I am sanctimoniously no higher
I have found too many I trusted to be liars
Now I live among lobotomized consumers and buyers,

And now in the wee morning hours
A drought precludes any showers
We are under the insanity of those in power
While I uncover the mysteries of the Eighth Tower,

Wine is like a sweet smelling forbidden fruit
For a while their is pain it will mute
"Did she really leave? Oh shoot!"
What's that on my neck? Is it life's boot?

Driving down the ocean highway
Or is it just destiny should I say?
For all those mistakes for which we pay and pay
How wonderful it was just to be a child and to play.