transient paradise

I could go on and on and on.
on how the world is a wasteland masterpiece.
The world is screaming wide-mouthed at me!
All idea of salvation is split asunder,
The human race bleeding at its side.
Guns left and right, ringing like thunder.

Have you heard?
Mammon is our new messiah;
Money and business is on broadband;
Morality is on dial up.

I find myself banging on my desk like a war drum
Sick of the fact that im a whore of the new age:  
A slave without shackles,
My dignity continually violated.

With every step of progress, we add a brick
To this unholy fortress of capitalist imprisonment.
Firing squads are armed with guns no longer,
Human death is insignificant.
Being downsized is the real mode of mortality.
Our executioner armed with paper and pen.

I became a creature of destruction,
A being unreasonable and deranged
Nursing angst ridden thoughts,
I am becoming a cliche of our age,
Just another person waging verbal war against the world,
A crusade against an indomitable foe,
Uttering cries that no ear can penetrate.
I can only throw up as i behold this horrid vision
Dead people turning in their graves,
Corpses in their waltz of decay.
I sit here with my hands to my face,
Stifling my own cries.

Until i feel someone prying my hands off my eyes.
It is you.

A beam of light piercing the clouds,
You probe my being with your eyes.
In wonder at what bothers me.
You behold my anguish and you bleed with me.
A tear slides down your cheek.
You part the clouds that darken my existence.

Only if you knew this:
That you are my salvation
My archangel with majestic wings
Wings that you wrap around me to hide me in your comfort.
Your warmth thaws my frozen spirit.
Your silence is sweet eloquence.

You are an innocent and naive soul
But then that is your gift.
You make me realize how pointless i am.
Like pop music on FM radio.
How it is worth nothing curse the world.
How my words of anguish bear no fruit.

Look at me, wearing this silly smile,
Grinning like a drunken tippler.
Stay for a while, please?
Rescue from myself.
Place a cork on where i bleed.
Blow away the suffocating dark cloud.
Rescue me from myself.
Just stay near.
I'd give anything to keep this,
Fleeting as it may be,
There is no other cure.
The only way to keep my sanity
Is to be with you,
My sweet, transient paradise.