A Lullaby to Sleep By

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Sleep has lost its virture
Has lost its solace
Its Eden

Has come up short
Like everything else
Under the sun

Now is something
To run from

Tomorrow has lost its promise
Has lost its flare
Its resplendency

Hollywood has lost its marbles
Its grip on reality
Its tongue

Has lost its innocence
Its honesty
Has poisoned minds

Has dressed its corpses
In kingly costumes
Has sold mags

With aliens on the cover
Men and women
The world has never seen

Has made us believe
Buying will save
Our souls

Will free our minds
Our spirits
Our mortal skin

Has promised immortality
While delivering
Only immorality’s mortality

Only ashes

Only the dust
From which we came
From which we sprung

And to which
We shall return
When it’s all

Been said
And
Done.


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