Endless, Confined

A sky of gray dances before me Endless and angry Blanketing this dirt road In impenetrable fog We're all lost, enthralled With our delusions Clinging to our convictions Tightening the ropes around our necks And everywhere I look All of my friends are dying Trapped within a car wreck Brought about from lack of trying A game of halves continues Half a year, a month in review And when nothing's getting done Could I point them out and blame you? I was promised worlds and lucid dreams And all I got was ancient memes No promises are sacred now And I doubt they've ever been So everywhere I look Windshields are crusted with salt In this endless snowy traffic Where the harbinger at fault Doesn't have to face their actions A cold and aching autumn Sends my heart into the breeze To grasp the fallen branches And arrange the falling leaves Into a bed where I can rest And leave this all behind And pray that I don't wake Until dead promises do as well A passing thought Relights the night More often now than ever If anyone knew This hero's tale He'd be stricken from the pages But no one's reading this book now And maybe no one ever will A small town library's treasure A second year has passed Without a passing sound The fourth year you've been a corpse And left with all my light bound Buried in an unmarked graveyard.