2:00 a.m. and I'm sitting
at home gaming again,
a 21-year-old life
with no direction.
I’m out of lock step
with the dreams
I haven’t lost yet
as I watch them
fading in the distance.

In delaying my resistance
to this degrading system,
I am slowly becoming
one of the mind numbing
cogs grinding other gears
who work here
with the same sad fear
that this is a rat trap that
no one will escape.