PRESENT TENSE

The world is nuts!

- I can feel this quite abundantly

I could say so on and on

I could say it so redundantly

Nobody ever really cares

About a single effing shay

They just lie

To hope and try

To hope and try

To make their way.

They like to think

- that all their faults

Are an ever fading phantom

They gain ground

Over, on and on!

Through a course of fleeting tantrums

Like they know they are the bomb

And the center of existence

- And so getting what they want

Is just a product of insistence

So they go on,

and over and under

Out to conquer every day

And yet they prove them selves

as fools

– There's not a thing they

wouldn't take.

...

And we all try to hide from them.

You have a list of every one..

You could name them in alphabetical order.

You could name them by the sum

Of your endless gone expenditures

Of the ways you've spent your youth

We are by-products

Of those "glory days"

We are by-products

of that Truth.

We try to hide

in this present moment.

We pretend this

"Is all we've ever been"

Like all our mistakes

- - Are there in the past

And don't exist!

In this.

Present Tense.