Helter Skelter

Some people inconvience their life,
would even make a stranger their wife.
Cut up emotions like a ginsu knife
and end up being made all trife.
I dont mind, dont take it as a gripe.
People eat fruits from trees that aint ripe.
And cross over lanes with marked stripes.
Now all of a sudden he or she aint your type.
Now lets all gather the sudden tears to wipe.

Thoughts of situations make you depressed.
But thats the fruit you bought, I guess.
Now the smoke has appeared.
The moment you made me fear.
Its hard to breathe and cry tears.
Your convience convinces you.
You gotta do what you think you gotta do.
Step on a heart or maybe even two.
Now a brother's left without a clue.
CSI can add two and two.
But it equals five once you was through.
Despair comes out of the blue.
And what I thought was what I knew.
Now no one is left to take bets.
Cause its all a mess with a side of regrets.
So now you content to live with a lie.
Dont even make sense to ask God why.
Hasty but now you all spacey.
And the future is made all pasty.
Bitter and far from sweet.
Now we live on opposites streets.
To much traffic to cross.
And time is all we lost.
You dont think this is gonna cost.
Hearts grow cold in the midst of the moss.
Hurry to the finish line.
Hurry to the end of time.
Haphazardly playing games.
Ends terribly in shame.
Its all helter skelter.

Richard J Wright (2010)