Cruel Enlightenment

I am a prisoner in the Jail House Of Madness
My cell mates are Hate, Love, Fear, and Sadness

The pain moves throughout my skull and I know what's to come
An extremely large cake of reality .... Take a slice want some?

It'll slap you off that pedestal of forever
I'll wait to fall in love, there's always tomorrow .... Or .... Maybe never

Fancy silk yarn of lies, a gift from society to weave a false blanket of hope
Heart attack, plague, famine, and murder, accidents, fires, or strangulation by rope

Days, months, years, entire lives taken for granted
Because the seeds of false hope have already been planted

In the minds of future cancer victims who strive for a career
Believing that money can protect them from a death they never thought to fear

Or how about a young mother 6 months into a still birth?
Delusions of happiness and love ... As the hand of death wipes away her mirth

How's that cake taste? With icing of irony, sweet deserts, now you understand
Live life like there's no tomorrow and time itself will expand

Every moment of everyday is another opportunity to turn it all around
a chance to fall in love again or laugh at the newborn and the nose he has found

a chance to play house with your daughter at the age of thirty five
or stand on the roof and scream how good it is to be alive

Visit a grave and honor the dead ... It doesn't matter which one
pray for the time not wasted and all the deeds they've done

Death has no conscience and at random it will strike
So experience everything wants, needs, love and dislike

Remember don't live a life, live only a minute
Caress the time you have because there is a limit

I am not sorry for this harsh message sent
now understand and be rewarded with cruel enlightenment