Zig Zag Zero

Zig Zag Zero                         6/4/2015
                       

Zig Zag Zero

Less than nothing

And falling out of frame

No matter how hard we try

It always ends up the same.

All that starts out noble

Crumbles to a crying shame

Mutated, perverted, and exploited

And dumbed down just the same.

You can believe what you are told

Or you could believe your eyes

Every day and everywhere

The reality versus the lies.

We are no different

And this is how it feels

Just as dumb as ever

Irrational and foolish.

We had a gift

And we had a treasure

But it was nothing

But pearls before swine.

Trodden, spoiled, and rotten

We wallow in the mud

Blinded by our own emotions

And drowning in the rain. 

I also tried

And I also dreamed

But I was brought low

Cut off and cut down.

Learning isn’t easy

And there is no credit for wounds

Nothing but a bleeding scab

To pick and peel. 

The world goes on

And they do not know me

As Alien to me

As I am to them. 

I watch them run

And I watch them try

Spending their energy

Pecking and preening. 

I am alone

And all of this

Belongs to them

All of its glory

And all of its dust. 

If we walked together

I could tell you

What I have seen

But words are what I have

Transiting through in endless streams.

We have this

And we have now

That is it

And that is how. 

Take it and think

Read it and write

Speak the rest

As only the ghost

Can know.