Heavily medicated
Profoundly over-educated
Intentions pre-meditated
Nameless figures in the night
Shapeless souls slipping into the light
Blameless eyes in hindsight
Perfected impressions
Self-effacing imperfections
Reflection's only a by-product of inception
As the waves wash over the shore,
Do the sands mold to your form?
Would anyone know you were lying there before?
Sacrificing depth,
In pursuit of a life that denies death
Not even the cold can recognize your breath
I have sought to dig it out,
To see what anyone's about
To pry into the most devout
Dust rolls across the endless void
Of the overstimulated and over-employed
Who are so exhausted from being overjoyed
Synthetically aesthetic
A contest to win "Most Empathetic "
Turns out privacy isn't genetic
As the waves continue to come,
I can hear the slow beat of that approaching drum
Chords plucked from a guitar's strum
There walks the straight and narrow
I've tried to be that straightened arrow
Now I'm wrapped in sheets to flee the Pharaoh
Isn't there anywhere anyone wants to go -
I'll do the time if it's what I owe
I don't want to hear what they think they know
I mistook sun for the shade while I waited,