Life Does Not Deliver

Life does not deliver
What it once promised me
Through words of books
Through tunes of songs
Through tales of stories
As lines on my skin added
One would think
I would have found
What I am looking for

I am walking down the path
That once was decided for me
Searching for light
At the end of the tunnel
And I’ll find out
When I find it
If it is the light of the guards
Or the light of the thieves
Getting ready to grab
And take me away
Into the nothingness

Life does not deliver
The best that it has
Despite the illusion
That people hang on to
From one perspective to another
Thinking that they have found
What they call reality

Spring out of their bed
When the sun rises
Without them caring
Living the unlived live
That they are living
Struggle to find
What they are looking for
Without knowing
What they are looking for

Run I am
In the trail of life
Rush through spaces and times
Rush
Rush
Until I find what I am looking for
If I know what I am looking for
When I find what I am looking for

-me