Masturbation is Self-Improvement

from Problems by Sharks Never Sleep

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The walls are tumbling down
Proverbial structure to the ground.
Iron-cast?
My support, composed of glass.

Hairline cracks, grown into shards
Lacking any sense of who you are.
Pouring sweat and tears?
Hit the ground twice as hard.

You're not your home, your job, your car
Your financial struggle, insofar.
In the end,
Nothing to lose.

Insecurities eat away, attack
At any positive feeling left intact.
My sense of self diluted
To a monotonous, moaning tone

In the end, we die broke and alone.

My life in short:
Mind-numbing aggravation
Crunching numbers, calculation
For a large, starting-pay position

"But, it's an achievement, a braggable goal"
This framed piece of paper?
Is that so?

Who will admire your exploits
When you've burned your bridges?

I've wasted everything on nothing.
Nothing justifies the time
and friends I've lost.

This migraine...
Razorblades
To the soft-mass of my brain

Analogous to the emptiness
I feel in place of pain.

This testament, I try to convey
On empty ears it falls
Wasting away.

Nothing justifies
The time and friends I've lost.

I've wasted everything on nothing.

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from Problems, released September 30, 2018

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