How much does it take

Must we give

Lose

Labor

Pains

Pay?

What is the cost of admission

For self-actualization?

How tall must we be to ride this ride

To receive that prized

Most High

Peak of Maslow’s pyramid

That satisfaction we seek in all the wrong people, trivial pursuits and places

Numb and nameless

Existing in a sea of familiar strangers

That endless, empty dream

We can’t ever seem to wake from

Cotton candied

Manifest destiny

Seems reserved for those

Privileged

Saccharine sluts

Bittersweet sister c$&ts

Who don’t know a thing about

About nothing

As in the void of absolute

Everything

Zero

Versus get

Good riddance

Off the backs of ride or die

Karmic trash people

Eating lies because we’re hungry

And don’t have access to

Any body butter

The Betters

Only come along to stand there

And declare we’re unworthy

Of freshly painted walls

Invaded by some mysterious intruder

In red boots who pounced

From shady untrimmed bushes

Right through the front door

Deemed a filthy toddler whore

Who wakes the dead

repeatedly screaming

From a life sentence of paralysis

Stay in your lane

Which is that gutter

Just outside the lines

Margin people

Swept aside an aside and aside

Each exposure

Pushing

Exhausting frayed telomeres

Beyond their limits

Cause how do we set boundaries with a paradigm?

There’s a hole in your arrogant Tedtalk

Mister Man

Named my broken energy field

Through which they get to assault and exit

At free will

Whenever they choose

And what choices are we left with

But to foolishly love, trust, pray and play

Again and again and again

Until all that’s that left

Is right

All that’s left

Is light~