What was good
Now turns bad
Time ticks forward
Always comes back
Forward it rocks
Backwards it crashes
Skin is showing
Clothes are closing
Ideal portrayals
Revealing realistic fails
Physical health
Mental wealth
Culture war
Financial repression
Change for progression
Change for regression
Change to compression
The cracks are showing
Yet life keeps going
Seeds are sowing
But no water is flowing

Abhor or adore
Evermore, nevermore, you
Answer for our war

Crowns and crests disguise
Devils with painted faces
Authority, hate

Two answers
Extinction or reason
Harsh distinction
Humanity's treason
Are our lives unique
Among hundreds and billions?
Why do we control nature
By separating ourselves?
Endless, friendless
Evolving to get less
Age is no refinement
Inside is misalignment
Questions not solved by assignments
We live through confinement
Enhancers of cancer
Dancers and prancers
Funds without a financer

Aged, unstable
Closed fists, old distant answers
Open hands replaced

True lies bring no pride
As our world runs dry, revised
Assisted by lies

I'll get a life
Where can I find one?
I've chased a dream spun by folly
Fate is not cruel, it is my own psychology
A soul cannot be satisfied by numbers
For those at the summit
Jump off to the base
Peak to perish, garish to cherish
Consecutively nightmarish
What face do I perceive?
Is this really me?
Caught up in the feckless and reckless
Ignoring all the life
I have wasted over time
Was my time truly mine?
Or am I a slave to bloodlines and deadlines?