Mankind
6/26/22
Easy or difficult to see right
Got rest with ease or a struggle to sleep at night
Always rude or someone that actually treats life
Like it's precious, regardless if others will never be nice
You're in the clear or done from three strikes
A person proud to be sober or an addict still hitting the weed pipe
Another bull item worth too much or useful for a cheap price
It occurred in the dark or near the glow of streetlights
All this crap yikes
Yeah, that's life
Always out of my damn mind
Why can't I?
Stay sober, I'm always drunk and high
Rarely ever do I keep it on standby
How am I, benefiting mankind?
If I can't even remember last night
One second I'm Jekyll the next I am Hyde
Bringing out my bad side
No fool to it all, I haven't been that blind
Or in need of a flashlight
If I try, It'll be fair or a landslide
It always takes work
Every day berserk
Losing interest in wanting to stay on Earth
What's keeping me from wanting to lay in dirt?
May not see it in my eyes or face, but in my heart is pain and hurt
No matter if they consider me another lost one
Why has it often been not fun
Sought love
Got none
Will do no good to end it all with a Shotgun
Battles I've fought some
Constant problems I faced unable to walk from
Still running into brick walls
Always the pitfalls
To hell with it all
Ego deflated, why has so much time been wasted
It's still the same s***
Dang it
I'd always treat her like she is sacred
But I'm still hated and degraded
Given no time of day by women across the nation
Yet, I'd give the shirt off my back a helping hand always aided
Is this truly what I'm fated?
My eyes dilated
Endless loneliness why must I embrace this?
It was new or archaic
I already painted mosaics
Switched it up and changed quick
Instead of the basics
Copyright © Dalton Ogletree | Year Posted 2022
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