Just another Catcher

Is it just me or are things just getting harder
the time we are losing is like a noose around our necks
and everything we ever wanted is out
those dreams we had when we were young have just gone off
and I don't know about you but I can see it clear
there's a barbed wire ribbon around our cheer
what I mean to say is there is no true act
everyone has got a dagger in their cloak
and if I felt that I was ever winning
I swear to god there is no way I feel it now
and everyone is doing things they don't want
because they feel its just the way the world must go
their parents smothered them in their sleep
by dropping doubts about their futures in their ears
but I wont follow I wont believe a word
but already I feel I'm following now
I'm lost in someone else's dream
I'm following a road that wasn't paved for me
and everyone is on a high horse
I'd shoot the thing if I wasn't so cowardly
and I fear if I do I'l end up in the gutter
but if I don't my heart will end up there anyway

Its a funny thing you know
to feel this heavy at such a young young age
but there you go I guess I'm messed up in the brain
everything just seems to drive me completely insane
and phony people with there phony words
everyone is just a hypocrite
they will judge you no matter what you do
even though they are doing the exact same thing too
and everybody seems to have it planned
even though I know we're running in the dark
and slapping off one another and into the walls
and falling through each others hidden pitfalls
now son let me tell you a secret
nothing lasts and you will never be even
you will just flail in this drying lake
and your heart will remain just one big crumbling ache

Call me cynical but I don't mind
I just seem to over think everything all the time
all the "has been" and the "has been" nots
I feel hard done by but if I'm honest its all my fault
now I don't believe in much
but I do believe to yourself you must be true 
and you must follow what ever madness is in your head and heart
I'd rather follow my own than anyone else's.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

"I'm following a road that wasn't paved for me
and everyone is on a high horse
I'd shoot the thing if I wasn't so cowardly
and I fear if I do I'l end up in the gutter
but if I don't my heart will end up there anyway"
I like the above lines a lot. It seem we have lost the option to decide our life. Use to be education was a advantage. New world. Big companies control our world. I did like the closing lines. Sometimes we must follow our own road and tell the world to back away. Thank you for the excellent poem. Welcome to the site.
Coyote

[Cassie]

i like the way you have penned it. Awesome

[hurdur]

Excellent. Keep up the good work