There are some people desperate to speak,
To speak to someone, since to themselves they’re weak.
Some thoughts of theirs are shallow, some suspect,
Suspect because their small world won’t neglect.
Theatrical exhales of discomfort, systematic, slip past their lips,
Their lips stand arbitrary, parched by anxiety’s eclipse,
Beneath their empty eyes, in rigid, dry mouths.
Drowned in the routine of creativity’s decline,
Creativity they couldn’t touch, not even in a childhood sign.
Confused in all, victims of zealotry and prophecies of cheap design,
Prophecies sold off in bulk, in books and magazines they line.
Desperation that can’t be redeemed by meager creeds,
Religions—cheap, expired cultural products, preserved to serve their needs,
Fear has compromised the totality of their state,
Of this existence that continues to dominate.
Hearing them, you wonder how much alteration, delusion, fits
Within the collective unconscious now, in scattered bits,
This unconscious, which instead of clearing with science’s advance,
Has clouded to extremes, lost in a trance.
Complaints and regrets have carved their face,
Their face, which forever will marvel at the unknown, the unembraced,
Yet responsible for their choice to face it with faith’s deceit,
Instead of knowledge’s path, steady and complete.
Knowledge they ultimately learn to hate and fear,
Struggling with instincts of reproduction, unclear,
To understand what now—when any awareness would shatter them sheer?
Insecurity galloping, weakening mind and frame,
A body they’ve neglected for years, and subconsciously maim.
Moments of despair make up their daily routine,
A routine of decay and TV’s consumeristic screen.