Chewing laces
The chemical sweets are vile
Playing the hard man with the pitiful leering smile
Dress to depress
Expensive to look cheap
Surrounded by a dazzling array of sheep
Their abject failure
The admiration of you
They witnessed the best that you’ll ever do
Nothing charmed
Nothing placed into your lap
Just shouting and orders and a frequent slap
Throughout your youth
Nothing to look up to
Fed on failure, was the model that shaped you
Pumped by providing
And an absence of sense
You cannot work out the most likely consequence
Where you are heading
Has been revealed
The spring has been wound your future is sealed
Morgan Bryan
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