I thought this was natural Born within us As children our minds are read Instructions printed on a page, we figured; Someone was there, with the medicine Curing each desire, and whim Leaving that realm We realize, To love one another, such a difficult task To treat each other with respect Easier to hide behind a plastic mask To work hard in difficult times Simpler to deceive and take another bite Looking too hard & Waiting too long Grows tiresome We ignore the red flags popping up left and right We want it to be so right and so true Blinding ourselves and blaming each other We're never going to get what we want under such weather. There's emptiness in our minds and vacancy in our hearts The voids are parasites grasping for more and more nutrients Neither are fulfilled and death is approaching The heart is beating slow, the lungs are quivering in smoke and the mind is in a fog Never to reach solace, lost in a universal smog.