View From This Place

Optimism is for the ignorant

Truth is for the liars

Cynicism is for the idealists

burnt out by false hope

Depression is for the hopeful

long exhausted by endless dread

Abuse is for the desperate

who cry out for help

but are ruined by their own minds

Despair is for the misguided souls

overturned by their own lives

False hope is for the abandoned

ruined by the rubble that is their lives

destroyed by society

left alone to rebuild

Destiny is for the lost man

who once lost his way.

And can't go home again.