We All Lose Our Own Way

• Artist: i theta
• Description: It's a poem I had running through my head when I woke up one morning after a creepy nightmare. It's surprising what a lack of decent sleep can do to you :P
• Date: 08/23/2010
• Tags: lose

In violent apparitions I see it all
Your chain, your ball, you cuts and bruises.
In looking at you I see how we
Lose, in our own ways, our own way.
I see how we and I and you
And he and she and they and them
With all of the ties that tangle us together
Trapped with the turmoil, the trudge the tatter,
The detritus. And the walking detritivores feed
On the web of woes woven by those eating fresh.
With the flick of a switch the light comes on
I see in these eyes of mine the lies the whys
The ups and downs the round-abouts that made
Me who I’m not.
Not really.
Not the best of worlds, but the best we have.
We could do better, make better, have better,
But to try and to fail, to regret, fret and let it get
One over, one more, one more that you have to
Give away, to have taken, to lose. We all lose.
Lose, in our own ways, our own way.