Framed Then Failed

So difficult to embrace or qualify

Find resolve as the earth keeps turning

Don't tell it seems too real

We're satisfied with the lies that we think and feel

Too fine a point to arrange

When dealing with obsession

To put a face on the pain

I will try to embrace it

Can't pull away from the mains

As everyone keeps drowning

This time it's worse than the signs

We framed then failed to identify

There's a cloud like a virulent storm

We justify all the air we're burning

To destroy like a petulant child

What was once so alive in a cultured mind

Clouds line the ethereal sky

But the air's too thin and nobody knows why

Time's gone down on the sentinel's watch

Brace for the fall because it's never going to stop

And we were never in control

With betrayal inside our souls

With no solutions for tomorrow

And it drives me away from my dreams

And broken pieces of today

There's a scene inside my head

I see a world's decay

Can't turn my face away

Or keep up walls of silence

For every mother's child

A commitment to recall

This sentence we submit

A future for us all