These fools, they have no clue

I've been waiting

All my life

Just for a chance

But now they'll steal this

I'm wonderin' if they know

Just what the hell

It means

To try and believe

Oh how I'm reeling

These masses- a menace

Drown us out

Your voice

Becomes a whisper

And now I'm slipping

They never earned this

Never staked a claim

So where?

Where do I go?

And now who saves me?

They push me, pull me

I'm spent

Bitter pill, this one

Clinging to a promise

That now we'll never see

I guess this is what they call

'Enlightened'

Here's my truth:

I'm undone

And now I'll never mend

This poem first appeared in the 2007 edition of The Cud.