Elegy

Who is this hurting mother

Don't want to be her now

Who in the hell's

That sad reflection

How did I lose myself

How many times I walk the river

Wondering what life's for

Sobbing beneath the staid performance

Too scared to let it out

Duty calls duty calls

Who is this hurting daughter

Going down the rabbit hole

Falling into a crushing darkness

Shedding skins of the soul

How many times I walk the river

Wanting to lose myself

Weight of an overcoat of sorrow

Too sensitive for this world

Duty call duty calls

Time to do the drop off

Time to make the meals

Time to greet the neighbors

Be a perfect ten

Smiling in the exterior

But nervous and distressed

Plodding on this treadmill

Take another pill

Start another morning

Wake to the alarm

Rise up in the darkness

Get inside the car

Join the rank and file

Thousands in the flow

Minnows on the freeway

On and on it goes

I don't want to go

There is more than this

There is more than this

There is more than

There is more more

Who is that serious child

The one left alone

Mother is in the kitchen crying again

No use to ask for help

So it goes so it goes