Looking Past the Curtain

Success was made of two-for-two free throws

It was pieces of cloth on pin stating how GOOD I was

I was blue; a first place ribbon

I fucking killed it

I walked around with  my $90 shoes I would outgrow much too soon

I kept my mind on vacations to places no one would see

I set my sights for HARVARD University 

I wanted to SAVE THE WHALES

I found excitement in materialism and holidays that supported it

I thought people who drove buses reaked of tobacco and had nothing better to do

Laughing at low paid people 

I am a little bastard

Politicians made great points and I wanted to grow up

to be JUST LIKE YOU MOM AND DAD

Alright, sue me for being the idealistic little squirt running around, okay?

Now though, I see right through it

Clartity

A wave crashed down on me 

This is BULLSHIT
I grew up

Saving the whales by wishing people would not be so mean was fucking

ridiculous

Getting into Harvard?

with my father having been FIRED from there was not some hope I would rely on 

Materialism displaces the beauty that could be shared between two people

And fuck me for thinking I am better than you for your low wages

Your tobacco reaking clothing draped across your body in a bus is beautiful

The politicians sucking your hopes and dreams

of being free to be yourself deserves no more than a shrug

I am floating in the happiness of others, and my newfound knowledge of realism

To hide from the truths of life and rely on materialism

Will drown you in the cloths of ignorance

Live with eyes wide open 

I am