I live in pallid lifelessness among shadows, <br />I seek privacy and fear cut-throats, <br />I try to protect child-like hearts <br />From disappearing into paranoia-driven <br />Self-destructive confusion, <br />I steer clear of happy faces <br />That smile while plotting <br />Spiritual identity theft <br />And dissolution. <br /> <br />I don’t complain about life, <br />I appreciate the frail radiance <br />Of the human desire to taste <br />A lasting love. <br /> <br />And one day my dreams will be indomitable; <br />I’ll drive on midnight boulevards <br />Beneath the soft caress of streetlights <br />With the stereo playing loudly, <br />And I’ll reach for a woman’s knee <br />Who has long eluded me, <br />And the sublime sensation of her warmth <br />With my lonely need <br />Will heal a thousand times <br />Kicked in the teeth.<br /><br />Uriah Hamilton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/kicked-in-the-teeth/
