A Jester's Requiem

In this day and age,

We’re playing a fool and a jester on this stage

Too cool to try in school then we get in a rage

How the system got us down and I’m just amazed

That we’re standing around instead of walking through this maze

Living lies just for a laugh and a chuckle

Only to realize we’re playing ourselves, the games called bloody knuckles

And yet you yourself cannot be a winner

Unless you reinvent yourself has a sinner

No one wants to die fameless, 

Nameless, 

Instead live an easy life painless

Yet I must ask, can you remain blameless

Pure and innocent like an infant being kissed

By its mother, or will you appear on the devil’s hit list?

Or maybe neither.

Cause through the years, I learned something can be both wrong and right

We don’t live in a world of black and white

I’m standing here, in this shade of gray

It’s horrifying yet the beauty takes my breath away

 People doing evil, yet prevailing as heroes

While the virtuous is failing when the clock hits zero

Yes, the world is not fair, that’s easy to understand

That’s what we have to deal with living as man

Living with the destiny created by our own hands

Whether willingly or not, this is our only shot

So no use in asking why and complaining

Curse at the sky, see if it stops raining

Yet I must ask myself, can I be a teacher?

Isn’t it like the devil in disguise being a preacher?

Cause when I witness the world with my eyes

I must laugh, otherwise I will cry

Is my laughter coming from the truth, or illusions and lies?

 Am I better off mute? For I choke when I try

It’s a sick joke, which lingers and pesters

My mind, please ask no more, for I am merely a jester