Wilderness

My purpose in life eludes me 

as I desperately seek beauty 

amid all the ugliness of this

wasteland of chaos and confusion

standing shoeless on shores 

of abandoned beaches rife with 

washed up irrelevant revelations

hacking my way through the brambles 

and thorns of a wilderness with no map 

to guide people such as me without 

a claim to fame and the freedom 

money grants the fortunate few

stumbling as I pass the bleached bones 

of those who came before me

the empty sockets of their skulls 

staring menacingly mocking my tenacity