Who knew it would be so easy to be happy
To the point where you forget what it was like
Laughter eludes you and worrying is a habit
I am only a shell of what I use to be once
And Life is a series of disappointments galore
I used to be inexorable,
But now I am elusive.
I used to be the future of America,
But now I am America.
I used to be part of the problem,
But now I am the problem.
I used to be part of the solution, if not all of it,
But now I am not that person.
What others thought of me became so important
I compromised to such a point till one day
I saw a new person in the mirror
A hungry insatiable creature of desire
Gobbled by lust, tormented by th
