A Joke

I sit with a legion of demons in my mind

That only know how to embody what they may think is my every desire

But they trend with the ideas of a man that has yet to lose his sanity

However to their unholy dismay I have no sense of such uselessness

For I have already peered passed the tainted horrifying veils of my reality

And the broken shards of my blissful dreams

So these fiends of fear

Have become a source of entertainment

To this tragic comedy that I like so many others have come to call life

Allowing me to awake every morning with a smile

Belonging to the mysteries of their dark humors

I applaud their sinister ways, and their clever confound witty tricks

That they ingest my mind with

Although as I said before it is all jesting and they are clowns

Looking for attention though all I have is a cheap laugh

Because my soul lies corrupted in a baron waste land that is overlooked by crows

Nevertheless my eye remains open

To the greatest personified joke that they have shown me

That being humans failed to save themselves from such amusement

And that we have mimicked their actions into our own world

It’s a sad joke, but it keeps me smiling

~ Tony Paradise's Poet ~