Poetry

It All Adds Up to Nothing

written by: OurSacredHonor

This effort, I'm straining
Try to maintain and
Try to retain and
Try to be sane and
It just isn't working
Cuz the darkness is lurking
Everyone else is smirking
Cuz I am a jerk and
Everybody knows it but me
I'm an idiot, and I just don't see

All this time I'm drowning
The emptiness surrounding
The sound of my head pounding
But when it comes down to it...
It all adds up to nothing

My head races and reels
As I keel
Over, don't feel
Sober, appeal
Of this roller coaster
Ride of my life
Sinks the tide
Like my pride
All at the same time
But still...

All this time I'm drowning
The emptiness surrounding
The sound of my head pounding
But when it comes down to it...
It all adds up to nothing

These clocks drive me crazy
Love Rock, and I'm lazy
Tick tock, thinking maybe
Gun cocked, eradicate me
Site locked, doesn't faze me
Pull the trigger, doesn't daze me
Because...

All this time I'm drowning
The emptiness surrounding
The sound of my head pounding
But when it comes down to it...
It all adds up to nothing

I'm bawling from doubt
I'm calling right out
As I'm falling I shout
And I'm mauling myself from the inside out
It's as I feared
Everything I've worked for has disappeared
My dreams have been shattered
And my blood has been splattered
All over the halls and walls
And bathroom stalls
I'm bleeding profusely
From my soul, and it's confusing
To lose it all, defusing
This time bomb, refusing to fall
But it's too late
It's gone now, fate
Has somehow been replaced by hate
For the entirety
Of Society
This sobriety
Requires me
To tell the truth
Reliably
So I tell you...

All this time I'm drowning
The emptiness surrounding
The sound of my head pounding
But when it comes down to it...
It all adds up to nothing

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