Presumptuous

While we sit in silence contemplating our lives

And the world turns in dark space

We cannot see the trees for the forest before us

Or the smile for the face

There is a bitter taste to the words we speak

And every line weighs more than it should

We spend all our time trying not to be bad

No time, then, trying to be good

The targets out of range we set our minds to find

We are the blind and we’re leading the blind

Hand over hand, swim through the sand

We think we know our hearts enough to know

The secret workings of other’s minds

And in our presumptuous  turns

Seek to ensnare these binds

Too quick into the fray we leapt unbidden, unknowing, blind

Is it instant gratification or self destruction we find?

Insolent we press the pressure of our hit and miss affairs

These vials of petty emotion, these briefly burning candles

And secret handshakes and cold daggers

And blood slippery on the handles

We are intent to love at all costs or simply to consume

Destroying that which we say we desire

With thoughtless deed and thoughtless word

Emotions of unchecked fire

The targets out of range we set our minds to find

We are the blind and we’re leading the blind

Hand over hand, swim through the sand

We think we know our heads enough to know

The secret workings of other’s lives

And in our presumptuous  turns

Seek to banish these lies

Too quick into the fray we leapt unbidden, unknowing, blind

Is it instant gratification or self destruction we find?

We believe ourselves to be true to blind faith

Conjured words from the keepers of lies

We hold to our crooked paths with misguided abandon

Secure as the warm days shift to colder nights

Somewhere up ahead on the distant horizon, we are ships

Caught in the maelstrom of unbedded fury

We thrash at our yokes, unsatisfied

And in an instant moment our lusts are buried

Too late.

We have fallen, a mire

Onto our knives

Extinguish that fire.