Heavily medicated
Profoundly over-educated
Intentions pre-meditated
Nameless figures in the night
Shapeless souls disintegrating in the light
Blameless eyes, it's always 20/20 in hindsight
Perfected impressions
Self-effacing imperfections
Anything original is a form of technological 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"
There's no one left to be genuine because we're supposed to be so apologetic
As the waves continue to come,
I can hear the slow beat of that approaching drum
And you're running, but you don't know what from
As you walk the straight and narrow,
I've tried to be a straightened arrow
But I always pierce the target in unintended harrow
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
And I may be the trouble that lies where the paths diverge,
A bystander to the slow river where souls submerge
Where they slip beyond reach because they resisted this urge
As the waves pass, people will look for a mark
And it might be complex or tangled or dark,
As the saying goes, all bite and no bark
But we must look within and lose the vanities,
I can recognize the role I've played in travesties
And I can help you feel what my eyes have seen
In order to find someone who can ever understand yourself,
Is only the person we are within ourselves
If you can ever find where that person dwells
As the waves wash over, they'll sweep away what's not tied down
And where there's no depth to be found -
In that flood, the skin-deep will surely drown