The Pursuit

Many lights shine through the chaos

But the sound of silence surrounds and drowns the hollow hearts of

Those whose revelations are black holes as bottomless as the coffers that will never be filled with enough gold

To create comfort in the numbness

Carpe Diem - Seize the day

But there’s always one day more to pursue that specter of a white whale that will supposedly bring fulfillment and meaning

Until there’s not

And is holding the starlight in your arms worth the sunburn from the fires that consume the sacrifice on the altar of the unattainable?

Either striving for stars too distant to reach or groveling in the dirt too universal to escape

And when the color fades, do those same distant stars bring back hope with the light or do they merely illuminate the filth?

Sins outweigh the tragedies written by the masses

As they stagger through what can be scarcely called living

Numbed by the opiates taken to ensure they remain in blissful ignorance

Filling the empty spaces with an illusion

And the frigid wind whistles past the whitewashed walls of cities that look noble

But are filled with corpses

The lamb lying on Broadway is not asleep

Its blood slowly creeps corrupting the crumbling stones that had been the city’s foundation

The yellow submarine has sprung a leak

And it turns out the Lucy you’ve been chasing through diamond filled skies isn’t all you had hoped for

And while the diamonds in her eyes match the sparkle in the skies

Fools gold shines in the same way, and distance isn’t just measured in lightyears

So we say goodbye to the blue skies

As they fade to gray

Darkness envelopes the chaos

But the silence had been replaced by a heartbeat that Beats to a syncopated rhythm that matches the broken clock, skipping its way through the hours that have almost run out

Lost in the pursuit of…