Reality

My grip on reality is tenuous at best

I find myself the butt of every jest

But in truth the jokes not on me

I'm the only one who seems to see

That the bitter harsh Reality

Is that we are destroying ourselves

Its a fact that I'm not like the others 

I try to explain but nobody bothers

They make the same mistakes again

Putting to much faith alone in name

When will they learn how to hear?

They live their lives cowering in fear.

All alone in this cruel existence

I have to abide by their ignorance

They show me no love or kindness

And yet I'm meant to be an optimist

To hope against hope they'll evolve

It so sorely tests my hearts resolve

But once in a while we find a soul to share,

The pain that alone we couldn't bear,

Someone to hold through long cold nights

When survival itself is the prize of the fight.

Someone to share my hearts desires

Until I feel the heat of the funeral pyres

So now i've found someone to share my soul

And I cherish the nights together we stole

The fleeting passion and loves last true kiss

And now you're gone a part of me's amiss

I don't know what to say, what can I do?

In the meantime my heart lies in wait for you

I see the pain and hurt of the souls of this world

it's hard to have to listen as their lives unfurled

The screams of a million lives cut off in prime

The sad faces of those left behind, out of time.

Crying for the ones  that they loved and lost

When the pain of living seems an impossible cost.

So I stand aside and watch the world progress

Slowly but surely becoming more of a mess

As mother nature is ever ignored and defiled

Ever stronger I hear and feel the call of the wild

They make the same mistakes throughout the ages

As a war on life itself the human race wages

Can't they realise from this nobody wins?

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