The Funeral Procession

The funeral procession passed by here today,

Confusion and questions left strewn in its wake,

But I feel like I knew his pain.

A mechanical failure while enduring the norm.

Some of us fracture, others simply deform

And lose their elasticity.

Never to return

To the shape they were.

I wonder which is worse.

I try to keep my composure amidst the insanity,

Resigned to the truth that I will not live to see

The dawn of a better day...

That might wash away

The sadness of this age.

I try to keep the voices calling me at bay.

Desperately clinging to any

Futile lack of human decency.

The voices love to remind me of

My futility sitting on my hands,

Hoping anyone else than

Me will do what should be done.

It's hard not to succumb as they

Call my name.

You gotta keep on trucking anyways.