Numbers don’t lie
Politicians do
Projections don’t ****
Suicides do

Repeatedly feed that ego
Validate the growing beast
An insatiable ungrateful monster
Devours an ever growing feast
Confusing compliance with choice
Whilst a servant at his feet
These decisions aren’t your own
Your just a vessel for the beast
Indulging his demands
A blinkered victim of self-deceit

With discovery comes learning
With learning comes understanding
With understanding comes depression
With depression comes darkness
With darkness comes light
With light comes hope
With hope comes confidence
With confidence comes discovery
An upward travel is the cycle of life
An ascending vortex to nirvana

Don’t hold
Your gaze
Too long
On me
It won’t
Take long
For others
To see
That occupying
The air
Between
You and me
Is a palpable
Undeniable
Compatibility

But if there is no apparent self, who is it that laughs at my distasteful jokes?