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Deteriorating

I'm deteriorating,

Slowly fading to black

I'm barely out the gates

Yet I feel like a weather beaten hack

 

What's the point to life?

With its fake friends, fake smiles and lost dreams

I look around me and my shoulders sag

This is not the stuff of boyhood dreams

 

What's the point to life?

A ferocious cycle of failure and heartbreak

What's my greatest fear?

Unfulfilled potential and lost stakes

 

I shouldn't be feeling like this

but at twenty I've got so much hanging on me

Prematurely coming of age

Midwifed by letdowns and rookie mistakes

 

But they don't know, they cant see

Hazarded guesses is all they can take

At the turmoil and torment

I mask with wide smile and firm handshake

 

I'm a man, I've got to be strong

Bear the consequences of my past

You don't know and you never will

A jot of the pain I hold fast

 

The way of my parents seems right

But putting all my eggs in one basket

Is not a smart move I don't think

Christianity my have some answers, but cant crack the whole racket

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muyiwa-oyinloye
Nigerian
Published
Jun 13, 2013
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