Endeavor

Love

Hope

Peace

Cover me like a warm fleece

Come

See

Find

This life, a sick fantasy

Oh, come share your mind

Open it up, watch the grind

It runs through all you know

Flattening all in the snow

It's deadly! But alluring

It's horrid! But inviting

This life you desire to live..

It seems as though we are aiming for a selfless goal

But we are treated like rats in a muddy hole

Why do we continue straining our intellect so

Running on the wheel, paying an exuberant toll.

I look, I look

But I find no relief

I walk, I walk

Getting no closer to peace

I live in endless

Turmoil and grief

Send your spirit

Come over me.

See your vehicle lacks of oil

The carpet pulled out from under your feet

You're doomed, you're damned, writhing in terror

Your legacy snuffed out, get ready to greet your fate.

Oh, come share your thoughts

Awestruck, what a price it brought

Wonder aloud to me in sleep

Each passing day penetrates deep.

It's hard!

In here

Horizon unclear

No soul around

On this desert ground

We dived right in

Knowing not how to swim

Gasping

Clawing

Finally submerged.

Why is it so that the righteous endure

While corrupt antagonizers find themselves cured

Their disdainful deeds should deem them dead

But instead they succeed and rise overhead

Cursed be they that curse our God

But they walk away spared of the rod

And they that have, receive more and more

While the lacking are sent to do all the chores

See our world has doused itself gray

We grab our paints and color away.

Here is what I want my life to be

Miraculous countenance delivering me

But it is the slight nuance that we do not see

Our "friends" have shown us shallow mercy

Truly you are alone, alone with the book

Reading intently, nowhere to look, but up

And so…

I look, I look

But I find no relief

I walk, I walk

Getting no closer to peace

I live in endless

turmoil and grief

Send your spirit

Come over me.

I look, I look

I See the ball drop

I walk, I walk

Circuitry stops

Beats an echo

Through the cold floor

The pain in me

Is suddenly no more.

I am at peace.

                             by Daniel Santiago