Confessions of a Cynic

These lofty ideals

I use to carry

in my attitude 

unapologetically

now lie in the ruins

of this gray crime scene...

Crumbled dreams

chipped away

by decades

of steady disappointments...

Replaced

by the sharp jagged bricks

of current bitter indifference...

Now I'm just another

cynical commentator

blasting a society

that failed me

though in reality

beneath my wrecked facade

I know full well 

I failed myself