Black Mirrors and Bullets

Confusion eats my brain.
I cannot wash away the stains,
The world leaves me behind.
What have I done with my mind?
I cannot escape this cage.
What is love in the modern age?
We swipe away the pain.
I've only got myself to blame.

Time to forget your dreams.
Every night you're losing sleep
Till you're numb in the head.
Black mirrors'll leave you walking dead.
Illusions upon light walls.
Allusions to things you can't recall.
Oral histories shared viral--
Search: how to stand up when we fall?

And take me at my word
I'm not at all what you've heard.
I am a boy and not a man.
I will never ever understand
What it is we're supposed to do
Before our time has come and through.
I just wanna try and live my life
But sometimes I think I'd rather die.

Now, I've kicked the bucket, and call it.
That's not how you're s'posed bite the bullet.
The light that's failing behind these eyes--
Our souls are an ever fading lie.

Please bury the results.
I'm sorry for all these faults.
Cracks in the armor
Doubts that I harbor
Uncertainty
Banality
Is it just me or everyone else?
Is it something that I can sell?
A knife in my back,
The knife in my hand,
Up on the wall.
It's time to rebrand.

Lethargy weighs me down.
Cannot lift myself from the ground.
Might as well just watch the walls.
How I got here? I can't recall.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Powerful and honest thoughts shared in the poem my friend. Was good to see your name on my reading board. I hope you are doing okay. I was lucky. I learn better to torture people for 50 years than to use suicide. Thank you Dennis for sharing your thoughts and your words.
Coyote

[zaisham9393]

This is very relateable.I loved it.thank you for sharing !

[Pista]

This was so deep. Well done.