Monday, September 30, 2024

"Always Looking Down"





A city paved on the slivers of dreams

That extort a whole new dimension

Of what the boundaries of reality

Can truly achieve ... or leave


Behind are the footsteps of tomorrow

Lost in the stains of each glamorous step

Resides the probability that, financially

You'll lose more than you borrow


The laundering of smiles can only be found

In the mischievous addictions that slowly create

Visions to heart broken souls deemed to be

Always looking down


Sidelined by the stampede of life's reprise

The deeper the pockets, the deeper the dive

As morals fall prey to the emptiest of eyes

The scent of victims being victimized


Souls so deeply lost in their visions of delusions

That no amount of win or loss

Can comprehensively dig them out

Of the trenches of their own minds illusions


Thousands of steps paved in smiles and frowns

Where dreams are made and loss is found

Can you keep your skew at a distinguishable view

Or become another, always looking down?


            (C) Angel Campbell 2024 

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