On with the Show!

The show

Never really understood

Always been confused

It seems to make it through this life

You have to take part in the ruse

I have been so blessed

That I have never really wept

Though all I will have left

behind are empty shoes

How long will those be kept?

A sobering thought at best

For all the fools I’ve flattered

As if any of me mattered

On this road to no regret

For a lonely soul worth saving

Isn’t that what we’re all after?

Keeping track of who’s behaving

In the background hear the laughter?

Seriously though

No

Who is doing all the laughing?

We cycle through while time keeps passing

Sometimes slow

Sometimes fast

Fresh turns into ash

In all interpretations

What we want

We waste in contemplation

Never figuring out

The rout or destination

So, there it is

No better for the worst

Deep thoughts, from a shallow mind, dispersed

Live, raw and unrehearsed

Somewhat revealing

But no real revelations

Same damn show

On a million other stations

Binging through series

In search of secret theories hardly known

That we wish we

Could be claiming as our own

And for what?

Purpose?

I am a sideshow in this circus

Some sort of entertainment

Until the next attraction

To my own admission

For a piece of the action

The thrill or distraction

Hard to tell

But I couldn’t help

Myself quite as well

Without your contribution you should know

So here we go

Now on with the show