Stair Into the Air
Ambition piled in rotting heaps
The ego ate its fill
The future was so magnetized
The past could not sit still
The limousines of vanity
And truckloads of desire
Careened into the gulch of greed
And crashed and caught on fire
Flames glow against the hypnotists
Who led us to believe
That money’s more than an illusion
Wishful thinking will conceive
Addictive tricksters conflagrate
Behind our shining screens
They’ll keep us hooked until we look
Inside their twisted schemes
Give me a place in inner space
Where fate’s a mystery
And there’s no plot for every thought
That’s freed from destiny
I’ll roll my soul out of this hole
Awash in pointless tears
I’ll climb that stair into the air
Above this vale of smears