Kicked In The Teeth

I live in pallid lifelessness among shadows, I seek privacy and fear cut-throats, I try to protect child-like hearts From disappearing into paranoia-driven Self-destructive confusion, I steer clear of happy faces That smile while plotting Spiritual identity theft And dissolution. I don’t complain about life, I appreciate the frail radiance Of the human desire to taste A lasting love. And one day my dreams will be indomitable; I’ll drive on midnight boulevards Beneath the soft caress of streetlights With the stereo playing loudly, And I’ll reach for a woman’s knee Who has long eluded me, And the sublime sensation of her warmth With my lonely need Will heal a thousand times Kicked in the teeth.