What a waste!

Loss and Pain

Hallucination and Dementia

Alienation and Paranoia

Excesses and Evasions

Depression and Heartache

Breakdowns and Suicides

To have been young

To have died young

Or to be young

Believe and Dream

Aspire and Hope

Create and Engineer

Want and Assume

Love and Oblige

Expect and Question

To decay with time

To wager with time

And stay old.

Bygones

Waves of despair weave through
checkering the fabric of life,
Leaving the skin numb'd
exposed to complacency.

Take me back to yesterday,
when I knew not enough;
yet loved all I had...
could ask for more,
Without fear of gluttony,
or desperation to rejoice.

Pass'd that experienced oblivion,
born of a different complacency.

Time when questions many,
matter'd nor answers,
Those virtues usurped
consequences unimagined!