Underwater on Land

The age of lost promise and incessant stifling 

Proxy conflicts causing great frightening 

Young men certainly don’t want to go to war

But in every other avenue, they feel it’s been done before

No new quantum physical elation [or] 

Positive social rehabilitating affirmation 

No new ideas are pursued unless they could be achieved 

Big Man says lament and invest if you want to succeed 

The heart of the human psyche will bleed

Or be uprooted like the wooden veins of trees

This is the cyber focused age where the young 

Grew up believing everything noteworthy was already done

Let your conspiracy theories run amok in this country

Some of them delirious, others all too funny

Bigfoot is real! Loch Ness Monster is up next!

Aren’t the aliens here? Haven’t you seen the Obelisk?

Is there an earthbound Superman to defeat incoming Zod?

Or is all of this believed in because we are missing God?

Vape lights blinking, the city’s sordid air stinking 

No room for thinking, only deeper we’ll be sinking

Beware of inaction, but also of hustle-and-scramble 

Hopes and dreams [once innocent] are now a gamble 

I wish it was tangible, that which seems to be wrong

Every hint fades away or is masked with a patriotic song

The phosphorescent bulb under the lampshade is tweaking 

The puddle is too shallow for the duck to put its beak in

Screensavers of faraway lands of mountainous beauty 

Desktops of secret folders of information all too gloomy

Let the internet have my face and my time 

Give it my sadness, give it my lies

Those that think they deserve piety 

Twist words and demand tribute vilely 

Highly unlikely anything in the near future will change 

But so much is different, nobody will remain the same 

Under the disco-light bane, purple window pane

Hollywood’s meaningless fame, Washington’s meaningless pain  

Helium fumes make it all so strange

[We can all see likes and hearts on our page]

But love, truly, is so far out of range

Unfulfilled consciousness makes life bland 

Like having dust in a nerval gland 

Today, you need a diving suit and an ID wristband

Getting by is walking underwater on land