Scarcity

Conventionally
Work is pleasant and rewarding
Conform early, learn the basics
Demonstrate accordingly

But more and more it seems
We've learned a yearning in our core
To be free in essence
To be let loose from the hoard

We are not so sure
Of our purpose anymore
Or the meaning of being
Who we are, and what for

It’s no mystery
Cultures of drugs and promiscuity
Is consistently habitual 
By so many in mutiny

Wanting to be something different
A gem, a rarity
Disease of our society
We feed souls of scarcity.

Yourself Self-Centered

Count my blessings yes
Also can't help but count rejections
All the oppression and destress
Built up like bad credit

I’m sick of asking for help
Sick of not being able to get it
Sick of empty sentiments
Just layering on like sediment

Sick and tired 
Of being sick and tired
These mick and mire for hire doctors
Wish they’d quit and retire

Like politicians making decisions
That conflict with their own conditions
The only prescription that does anything
No signature required with it.

Flawed by Design

Took a small knee high
Meek-minded naive tyke
Tossed him head 
Over heel over hilt over hide

Never mind, mind over matter
You succeed on their terms
They teach what they learned
Drops out the tree face first

Acorn scorned
Right in s### to harvest
Don’t have to be the smartest
Often discouraged regardless

As long as you can follow orders
No worries, you'll resurface
And further spread the turds
Of the surplus disservice.

Rocks and Hard Places

I do follow protocol
Until I’m bottomed out
And worse off than before
Tossed off forgot about

Caught in rocks and hard places
Can’t save face like Murdock
I’m the d-team squad
A reserves spot third-opt

More cons then pros
More pain than joy
Now my whole brain void
Funked like soul train noise

Finish the lyric….