Neverland Revolts

How did I get here?
From enraptured gazes that only a lover
Underneath a sunset could know,
To stoic expressions facing a dead end happy place.

My speech skips and screeches
Like a ruined cassette
Spitting ribbons of misplaced thoughts.
Things once full of passion and direction
Have escaped me in a surreal night
Of a trailer park nightmare.
Just another cigarette tinged regret
On my ever heavy shoulders.

I want the ecstasy of poetry
on my tongue again,
Tasting Earth's succulent breath
as she kisses my lips in the sunshine.
Exclaiming manic exaltations
of what a beautiful moment
has found me.
Such ugly truths I have come to know!
On a first name basis
With broken families, broken covenants,
Broken spirits, angry spirits, vain humans,
And all their pretty little lies.