Nothing Changes ~ Saturday, December 27, 2025

Thought this would be for the rest of our lives

The potential for excitement, long gone
how naive to believe that this could last
only time would tell of work and effort
under a spell, false hope, now mow the lawn
green grass freshly cut smells of violence
how the world moves on, values of the past
thrown away in the rubbish bin, old sport

time to abort the project, late bloomer
how fear of addiction made the most sense
if the fear of poverty were stronger
stronger still the desire to love, now dead

witness the world in flux, now, no longer
old school values, but now, the price of bread
under the bus, thrown for a loop, rumor
leaves no innuendo, out the window
decisions made, lives lived, over and out

bittersweet dark chocolate, swallow the pill
emerge from a hermit crab shell, the glow

foreign as happiness, joy lost, the cost
only one soul, a laugh, a joke, why pout
rich as a billionaire, but how to fill

the gas tank, privilege learns, entitlement
holds the keys to power, the changes lost
each administration brings more sorrow

remember as children, forever gone
enter the train car, winter cold, borrow
solutions to problems for work, alone
the band dissolved long ago, defunct, spent

order mussels in garlic butter, screams
from where, the imagination, how sad

object to penalties, just pay the fees
under the influence, driven by dreams
reality sets in, work for money

leave this corpse all alone, this life was bad
in a sense, beautiful, nothing to please
vision, gouge out the eyes, history bunk
eclipsed, out of shape, visceral, this funk
settles in forever, Times Square, Honey