Insignificance

Why is it so surprising
to see treason in your eyes?
Were we all not already meant to
Speak this language of lies?

Treading upon each other
To claim a hollow victory
Spitting at another's castle
From a black burning tree.

Rat race, some call it,
Ambition it is to some.
Sometimes a resolve to win,
And sometimes a smokin' gun.

Spare me and my hazy world
From your schemes and designs.
I'd  rather wonder and wander
Smoke, laugh, drink and dine.

In the cold clutches of the material mace,
Speeding to catch a blazing train,
Did you find the diamonds you were after?
Did the brazen gold ease your pains?

Oh! would that I were a free man
Free from this toxic clay
I wonder how it would all be
Outside this rehearsed play.

Many before me have had this ague
I'm sure this thought has travelled its course
I guess I'll need my copper coins,
To unravel the mysteries of an untamed force.

That binds us all in this vivid dream,
Daring the mind to leap and trust.
Led by mere projections and cues,
Into an eternity sprawled beyond the crust.

A cosmic game gets underway
With twinkling stars and thunderous chimes.
I sail a heavy, purposeless ship,
Knowledge, my anchor in this sea of time.