Despair

Take me away from here
From the insanity and pointlessness
Give me a purpose in life
Give me a path away from this
For the eccentricities which are being developed
Inside my clouded mind
Cannot hold a candle to closets of skeletons
I'm trying so hard not to find
I understand clearly they're trying to help
But on so little time for restless sleep
My mind is befuddled and I can't see quite straight
It's getting harder to dig as deep
They give me a privilege to take it away
But I don't really notice it's gone
When all I do is hope and pray
I'll quit doing everything wrong
So I sit and ponder life's obstacles
And wonder how they'll be surpassed
I figure I'll learn in my sweet time
I won't always come in dead last.

15 December 1998

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