Hermitage

Do you ever wish To be a solo fish Not following the school Leading itself to the ditch Conforming with falsehood’s joy Taken advantage of like a used toy Unable to ever think for yourself Mentally impoverished even when surrounded by wealth Like me? I see you paint your world Like all the other girls How much will it cost For your Pyrrhic victory to unfurl And the man who would overcome The plateaus of mankind the dumb Lives in a pipe dream under the sea Yearning for a heaven that never will be In isolation I want to be Free from your reality I hope to soon forget The moment we first met Momentary lapse in judgment Birthed an eternity of regret I hope to soon forget The thought that we ever met Which lives on in my head With eternal regret I could never fit in In the game (of life) I can never win But I won’t fake a smile for the cameras Watching my explicit chagrin On the blank white mountain Longing for death I escape Treading in dread Once again Reading between the lies Finding absolutely no surprise No trompe-lœil to fool my eyes On the path of nature I progress through tonight However moon dancers above Absolve me of my wanderlust Under trees dancing in the breeze Liberated from your superficial humanity Irony, agony, I walk alone and I’ll be free Into the solitude of the woods, the trees Don’t come for me, leave me be Loneliness is my reality To die without a grave.