• Your eyes,
    Two helpless pools of still water
    Your voice
    Protests the very attitude you preach
    Your smile
    When present acts as the defense-
    For your soul
    Is longer down the road to failure than you know

    You jest,
    For if you don’t your heart will soon fall dead
    You live on,
    If only to keep your friends from dying too
    You cry,
    For your own lost soul and others’
    You dwell,
    On shame and feigned compassion from your love

    Your lips,
    They sing a song of past and present hopes
    Your words,
    The thin vapor drawing the message you put forth
    Your mind,
    Knows no luck, no light, no care
    Your message,
    “Unlike me, just live the life you’ve got”

    You think
    Of matters no one talks about
    You watch
    As glittery rays loose magic to the sky
    You jest,
    For if you don’t your heart will soon fall dead
    You live on,
    If only to keep your friends from dying too