Well,
You never thought you'd be here
Not at this age
Not knowing what you know
In fact,
Why isn't the whole world
Lining up to kiss your feet?

You know it all
You've been there
And if you haven't been
Someone
A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend
Has been

All your bad experiences
Those are the world's bad experiences
Disregard the child soldier
The **** victim
The mutated and deformed
These?
These are real problems
If they aren't on the surface
They fester below
Rotting away at whatever you could hide away
We all feel so bad for no one

Daddy is too rich
He loves his guns and his motorcycles
And mommy got remarried to some maniac
Who has a drawer specifically for tissues and a sports car

How is an upstanding young man
Expected to compete with that?

On the mountain’s peaks
I will one day live and laugh
With the birds and clouds

Waking up
Worrying about money
Collecting funeral home cards with a saint on the front
Picking up the phone
*******
Thinking too ******* much
Pouring valuable time into invaluable pursuits
Fleeting glimpses of fulfillment
Things that make you feel more empty than before

Complications
All types of complications
Disease
Hunger
Lack of motivation
Mostly, it's a lack of content
That is the real side effect
The thorn with canines in your side
Telling you that it's never done

Be the best
Or the worst
Or anything
Please, be anything
It's better than being nothing
A lack of a person
An oxygen bandit
Another festering fat bag
A talking recycled opinion

Having a few too many drinks
And acting like a sage
The very act renders the desired result useless
Acknowledgment of enlightenment
Can only confirm
That there is so much more to learn.

Life will be better
When you shatter the mirror
And walk the mountains

Many drunken nights
I’ve blacked out with my shoes on
Good night gentleman

Life makes you feel like
Another dandelion
Stripped clean by the wind

Sometimes I can’t write
You get lackluster haikus
A lot like this one