FRUSTRATION

 

Life moves toward growth, 

yet is hindered en route;

Impediments frustrate our being, 

from within and without.

 

Tension is built up, 

drives and motives get dammed;

Intent comes to a standstill, 

by things we can't understand.

 

If we could untie those knots, 

that bind up our soul;

Undo those neuroses, 

taking their toll.

 

Perhaps then we could realize, 

the Beauty in life;

Free from the hinderances, 

that lends life its strife.

 

But how can we untie knots, 

that blindfold our eyes;

bind up our hands, 

and add tears to our cries?

 

We are all so damn caught up, 

in the miseries we live;

There's no time for Beauty, 

when its so hard to give.

 

For how can we live Beauty, 

in the drama of our selfishness;

How can we expect freedom, 

without love in our consciousness?

 

And so we are left alone, 

too frustrated to grow;

In a life barred from Beauty, 

with a soul longing to show.

 

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