Eyes Wide Open

I: eyes closed, you refuse to see

How the world has changed

And not for the better

I watch as we sail

These oceans of sand

Throwing down our buckets

For that precious liquid life

But we only get sand and bones

We’re fading too

Breaking down as the world around us collapses

Beneath the weight of the polluted air

II: now I watch from a distance

As the world turns dark

This is the aftermath of our destruction and our hatred

The misfits remain as wanderers

And we collect them one by one

As the wasteland of what once was

Rises to meet us

All of us have given up

All of us are wayward

But we’ll soon float away

Because the peaceful dark of oblivion

Will be ours soon enough