Going Down

when your ship comes in

make sure it can float

otherwise

the only place it's taking you

is down

The world crumbles

Youth can build a better future

if they can keep their optimism

or else the world will crumble

Feeding time

what we think we become

so feed your mind well

Who we are

we need to be who we are

not who others want us to be

Build It

The future we want

is one we need to build

it won't happen by itself

Flash of confusion

In a flash of confusion

nature created man

a mistake at best

destined for extinction

Can't control time

We can't control time

it passes with or without us

World of chance

There's no safety net

in this world of chance

Fools

We've fooled ourselves

into thinking we've got something to protect

Relief

The relief we find in life is in the moments in between

Take us away

We toil through our days

waiting for far off dreams

to come take us away

In the end

in the end, our true nature will be revealed....

Move along

When we're gone

there's one thing you can count on

and that's for the world to move along

Waiting

we wait and wait for a future that never arrives

Passing Seconds

the future is a void

there waiting for you

as each second passes away

Long Gone

before we leave our days behind

memories will fade with time

the past just a lonely haze

of long gone days

Make it simple

simpler times are the ones we make for ourselves

the rest is just an illusion to fool ourselves

so that we can say it was better way back when

Lost Summers

The summers of life are lost

day by day forgotten

come the long winter of dying

Destinations

our plans don't always

take us to expected destinations

No control

life's a dance, joyous and fanciful

once you realize you've got no control

Out of control

fate deals us our cards

thinking otherwise is for fools

who deceive themselves

into believing they've got control

Held Dear

If we really held our freedom dear

we wouldn't give so much of it away

for living without it

is like taking away the breath of life

Unsafe

We are told many things

few if any are true

so, we're expected to have faith

and give power to an elite few

who promise hope and change

while the world grows more unsafe

It's in our nature

humanity is deconstructive

always taking the world apart

and counting the left over pieces

it's in our nature to destroy

Shadows of Youth

youth leaves its shadows

in our memories

making events seem larger

and life grander

with time

than it really was

Something New

moments in the making

gain their importance in relfection

becoming something new in the process

Reminders

Nature will remind us

of our insignificance

and our place

in the scheme of things

Filled with joy

fill your days with song

and you fill them with joy

Perspective

from above all seems small

like our problems

once put into perspective

Within the dream

the illusion is a dream

we live within it

only to awaken

when it's over

Standing Tall

Our future stands tall

built from blocks of the past

one stone at a time

waiting for us to fill it with promise

Illusion of Memory

We can never go back

the illusion of memories

there to fool us

into thinking differently

Slow discovery

Life taken in stride has distant destinations

they await slow discovery