Once, I read about a theme park The roller coasters reached the bottoms of the clouds and the speeds broke the sound barrier Children went there daily They laughed and they screamed and they smiled from dawn until dusk They won prizes and they were very much alive
I went to look up that theme park last month The rides had all shut down And they were completely still Nobody had touched it in years The streets of this city that were once full of life Were dull and motionless The windows were broken The prizes were gone The bright lights of all colors were now empty shattered bulbs
The only emotion was empty All of the happiness and joy And the laughter and life Was completely gone I think of this often How one place can hold such life one day and the next be as good as dead?
I saw myself in this corpse My body, decaying The joy I would feel and the dancing and laughter has now all turned to a blank slate of gray My mind had shut it all away and I am nothing I once held better days But now I am a broken roller coaster Abandoned and corroded Because I once got so high And I once moved so fast