Love On The Horizon

[mathiasthom]

No love on the horizon
just the usual suspects,
trolling for those
with bleeding hearts
decorating tattered sleeves

You can't save everything
every wounded creature
crawling around, dazed
on the barren ground,
in a tortured craze

These days pretty much commonplace
searching into any stranger's face
for signs of recognition
oh, but that would be an admission
and that simply will not do

Hard as nails,
styled with hair gel
plucked eyebrows
living in the now
never even a simple smile

Everything is a trial
give it a rest
always being tested
forever being bested
fighting back only to become arrested

Stuck in some never ending scene
where the end result is never the means
always the same
watching the rain
crumbling face sliding down a windowpane

Nothing on that horizon
just another sunrise
time for another clandestine moment
where we won't see you cry
falling apart on the inside

mathiasthom
written 3/10/12