The Life You Are Living

Black poems rust in a million pockets

Issues scream out into the darkness

Problems are ghost in the night

 Stars that are invisible to the human eye

Cries and tears disappear in the day

Wishes wander in dark wells

Dreams are never perceived

Talents are concealed

Love is not expressed

True happiness is undiscovered

A car on a bumpy road

Going the wrong direction

Pictures from the past are prized

Change is obsolete

Your symphony played by others

Your message sent by a friend

A door with a lost key

Locked by someone else

Hope itching at your scalp

 Your painting without a signature

A crush you will never speak to

A friend you will never meet

Screams begin to consume you

Thoughts of the future make you cry

Unhappiness boils inside your brain

Your shadow is beginning to disappear

A trend that ran its course

A game that has gotten old

Black and white pictures

That need a new color

A caterpillar with no wings

Is not a butterfly

 A song with no melody

Is only a poem

Then why am I living this life?