This Can’t Be Life


This can’t be life

Hours and minutes

Is it Misery’s wife?

Sadly passed til it’s finished.


Crushing disappointment

Around every corner

Now I’m a fly in the ointment

Tomorrow’s maudlin mourner.


Brutality is the common tongue

Existence is a forgotten song.


Love has been lost forever

In a society that’s broken

Future ties have been severed

Empathetic words left unspoken.