Time Roll Sidways

Time roll sideways 3/14/2012

It is a familiar feeling
When nothing ever changes
And you can always predict tomorrow
Knowing all the words
Even before they are said.

And you no longer ask
Because you already know
The answers
Because you have heard them all
A million times before.

Because you have lived
Then you know
Exactly all the reasons
Why it is always the same.

It is hard to care
When all we do is lost
And it is hard to try
When you know the truth.

Man makes rules
But then he allows exceptions
And nothing applies to the sacred
Or the politically expedient.

People claw at each other
Like crabs in a bucket
And no one ever escapes
Because they would rather suffer
Then see anyone free.

It is the same old story
Written with different names
Regurgitated over and over
But never really digested.

You would think
That we would learn
And throw off the chains
But we are creatures of habit.

Always afraid to rock the boat
As we watch others singled out
Either for good or for bad
And we blend in the background
Safe for another day.

Our numbers have dwindled
But still we do not act
Too busy holding on
To what little
We have left.

We speak the truth
But only in small groups
Afraid of ridicule
And the accusations of the crowd.

The crowd is dumb
And grows dumber every day
Producing nothing
But consuming everything.

Like a plague of locusts
Eating all the crops
Invading every crack
And finding every grain.

They move in a herd
And believe what they hear
Following a pied piper
Into death and desolation.

They look different
But they all think the same
Deluded, dumb
And part of the herd.

They follow their leader
Straight off a cliff
Re electing thieves
Who steal every day.

They lash out at the good
Who question their motives
Because deep down they know
But follow anyway.

The moon rises
Hollow and deadly
Lighting up the night
For all the dead to see.

The laughing skulls shall mock us
For all that we have done
Losing everything on purpose
Just like they knew we would.

Time wraps around itself
And all men live at once
Interconnected but dumb
And stunted by the fall.

And yes the tide is building
As times slips over the side
Just a predictable as sin
The gleeful murder of man.

They are dancing in the streets
Because they got what they wanted
The world about to explode
With ignorance and hate.

The end swallows up the beginning
And the serpent shall choke on its tail
As the sword of truth
Slays the dragon.

The day will come
And all the good shall return
Back to embrace us once again
As we return to a new beginning
The one we never knew.