So I was thinking aloud I was thinking about All the evil in the world And I had my doubts To an extent of losing words I don't know if that's allowed I was thinking of Pandora Sent by the gods to humankind, but failed to see the best of both worlds Her disobedience laced curiosity unleashed a plethora Of all kinds of evils, vices that no words Can describe. And taught my feet To follow in her footsteps In the beginning there was perfection In Zeus' higher Domain. Prometheus caused distortion, Stole fire In a bid to assist Mankind A gesture that Zeus would resist And bestow a punishment of some kind Eternal ******* with a rock And sent an eagle to mock And with its beak poke at his liver Forever I am many steps behind this offender But our boats are harboring in the same dock Does it not tell the all too familiar story Of retrogression, so inexplicable Of evils that come before glory Only to pave way for peace that is never reachable
I was imagining Atlantis And how it must have been the epitome of perfection The ultimate Utopian sensation Only to disappear, something seems amiss. Yet nonexistent is that eminence in the present All dwelling in the ocean's depth, death so imminent No more footsteps, no more hands Just faint footprints among the sands
Yes I was thinking of the reasons for all the unhappiness That remains mystified, All the heart breaks That never seem to be justified, The feelings of emptiness That can't seem to be fulfilled, And how the days of old reveal What it was like in the ideal Two halves conjoined Separated because they challenged the gods Failing to avoid Eternal incompleteness against the odds Who am I to wish for change My foregangers never even gave me a chance Speaking of change It probably doesn't exist Not then, not now Like prisoners in a cave, Plato tried to reason All we see is a shadow Of reality in and out of season And when we do see the light Let alone the enlightened. Blinded still We may,we might, We most certainly will Fail to realize our ignorance Fail and never see the glory days We are forever losing our feet Falling head first Supposedly moving forward, but realizing the worst We are steps behind, following in the footsteps of forerunners we'll never meet