All Our Failings - The Crawling

Crawl into every word.

It will gain your trust.

Nothing is all that it seems;

Eyes that refuse to see.

Failure to live in this life

That was given to you.

Accept, neglect, conform and move on.

You will learn.

Voices spin round in your head,

None of them sounding like you.

A crack beginning to form

Will bring you slow release.

Stuck in rut, thirty years deep,

Forget everything that you know.

Dirt piles on and the faces will change,

Smiles that continue to fail.

Failings that continue to grow,

Fed by desires to zeal.

Words that will cut you like an edge of a knife;

Flesh that refuses to heal.