In a momentary haze your mind spins It droops and falls helpless into a vortex of Smallness insignificant cold uncaring lonely Smallness of the day when everything big Either hurt, or used or didn't bother It knocks the air out of your lungs that suddenly Have no cause for breathing for why waste the Precious oxygen? Yet you inhale in quick desperate gulps And the ground slips from under your feet It's all pointless - to save yourself, to seek help, to go on Too small too emptied and filthy with their intentions In tension with the needs needs needs... The hopes that you found suitable for fire setting Pointless naive stupid hopes So hatable you demolish them at once Into waste under worthless sign Forget the pain whatever it takes It left you with blisters and hanging shoulders With your chin tucked underneath your Self-worth and you are not walking you are Dragging yourself along the path In the direction of pointless consumerism And fame fame fame is all you wish, its all you hear It's all you know of care because it's all that keeps them around Them the faceless the soulless manikins that Seem to have something you don't Those hatable bodies that fill up the space Around your black hole And you fall and you fall and you fall And all the things you have don't make you happy And praise or kindness makes you paranoid And you take all these little tablets of oblivion Together in one gulp to forget Just how far you still are from where you Wish... if only you could wish to be
There was a choice somewhere in there, made every day for the sake of weakness to fight