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