Youth unknowing, blindly taking all, Giving, nor forgiving none Blurting nonsensical words without truth or meaning
Playing to their ego's unconscious pleading Body language betraying emotional leaking
Devouring mind's, heart's, souls, divine
Without understanding they step over every conceivable line Searching for a place to lay life out, Endeavoring to make it unattainably sublime
Instead they commit emotional crime Illicit substances, sex and heady pursuits Obliterate feelings of inadequacies deep rooted Inhibitions soothed open, decency looted Yet guilt then oozes from every pore
Pills popped for the last time, yet their spells never broken
Addiction strengthened more and more
Bathing, then drowning in booze, feelings unspoken
Peer group love absent, at a part - y they should leave Cries of desperation seen through dead eyes No-one can feel each other's pain
Each trying to flout competition
Conveniently thinking each other to blame Friends I suppose, but they do not seem
Bitching and pinching each other's egos supreme In mindless selfish efforts to be the coolest of the crop
They pretend to be buddies yet defect when defences drop Life's empty place, of no respite
Johnny sweetly sings to the only love in his sad sorry life
Then died almost valiantly to give Alice life
Yet she suspends all development and shallows even more
Lost in a world of deluded shadows she causes all to fall.
Copyright Natasha Anne Kelleher copyright October 2011
Inspired by the film Lotus Easters directed by Alexandra McGuiness
