ILLUSIONS

Covered with shame,
No one to blame,
Helping the helpless,
Not knowing them dead.
The illusion of reality
Shadowed by self-deception
Faking the life once lead-
Not facing the truth.

Who chose their road,
The one un-tread.
The portrait of a blinking idiot
In my head.

The more I linger,
Still more fool I appear
Deceiving myself-
Hiding from reality-
The illusions in my head.


The faces I see- cold and bare-
The voices I hear so unclear,
Not known to me- or understandable I say
The illusion created by the remedies faked
The truth unsaid - Painful indeed.
The gifts of rich value through which I'm paid.
The noise, the confusion -
The distraction I sense-
All these illusions in my head!