Further I Follow

My dreams become a vast oasis of emptiness Further into the sun I follow Torn and battered, but on a straight line Meaning is entertainment for the fish The sea is full of sharks swimming in blood Each thought more random, more lost To trap a thought is to kill a dream We forever give chase Running further from ourselves There is a man outside waiting for me His crooked smile brings sunshine and me to my knees I can barely remember who I was Before the world took me out