Broke

She stares at me with gilded eyes

The face I knew and now despised

The lies and the shame

Hatred toward my name

From a dame

Damn, the main plan was squashed from the start

New feelings and emotions had me stymied at the heart

The kind of girl that had every man on the corner plotting

Left the weak with a mind hurt, fragile soul rotting

A siren’s call at twilight

I feel the tug at my bones

I try to fight

Somnambulism, crutching at the posts

Misinterpretation, gross

Pit terrors have me shrieking to the street

I brave the demons there but inside I face defeat

The man with the design goes down first

Foundation line makes him go down worst

Welfare credits can’t support a family

They say you need a village, but we can’t either can we

Soup kitchens dig a void in a vivid brow

Grizzled men, grimy shoulders to the piping plow

Philosophize, theorize, where it went odd

Didn’t happen in all the wars when we killed God

Eye gouged, blood drained, left with no kin

See the world, see the kids, my heart broke then