Fate of the Futile

Try to wrap your head around these

Trying to avoid fatality is futility,
If you know what I mean.
If you’d seen what I’ve seen,
You’d know that no one is mean.
They just do what they do to survive,
But no one makes it out alive.
No!  No one is mean,
If you’d seen what I’d seen.

Each breath is another towards the end,
But it never ends,
And nothing ever mends.
What kind of message are we trying to send
Because in the end
No one ever buys it.
If we all cry,
Or if we all die,
Will they buy it?
Oh--for now,
We’ll just leave a gentle sigh
Before we wave good bye.

Don’t ask questions.
Don’t ask for love
Because it isn’t here
When the push comes to the Shove
you over the edge--
Off of the ledge,
And your mind is gone
Before very long.
Like a shot to the head.
Seeing red.
It’s all gone
Before too long.
It’s all gone.
Oh yes--
It’s all wrong.

I wish we all could win,
But someone’s got to lose
For someone to win
Or else there is no sin.
Without sin,
There is no good,
And if there isn’t good
Then no one can win,
And if no one can win,
Then we all lose,
And so I guess you’ve got to choose:
Is it us or them.

Author's Note

Converting some old songs to poetry. Harder than I thought it would be.
Tell me what ya think.

Reviews

[Andrew'sWonderland]

Wow!! Talk about mind-bending!!! I have so many thoughts colliding in my head, I just cannot think of anything more to say!! Way-To-Go!!

[lindsay]

The rhyming was really nice in the poem.

These are my favorite lines:
"I wish we all could win
But someone's got to lose
For someone to win
Or else there is no sin.
Without sin
There is no good
And if there ain't good
Then no one can win.
And if no one can win,
Then we all lose.
And so I guess you got to choose.
Is it us or them"

They are really in you face words and phrasing. Good Job!