Waking Life

I may look alive

But I’ve been dead the whole time

The walking dead passerby

All look alike but for the eyes

Vacant and staring at nothing

At no one, all assumptions

Based on brain and heat beats

But the soul retreats

My life has gone away from me

For everything I am has killed me

A placid ocean in the mid of night

A sole figure bobbing in moonlight

Arms flailing, no one for miles

Goes under and then slowly dies

Life has washed over me

And no one ever sees

Me drowning in my own mind

Sees me slowly running out of time

My life has gone away from me

For everything I am has killed me

Can we still love after death?

Is there anything left at last breath?

If I am dead, my heart is too

Turned to stone just to get through

The waking life and the everyday

To pretend that everything is okay

That I am alive and all is well

All the while I’ve been dead, can’t you tell?

My life has gone away from me

For everything I am has killed me