Marching into Deceit

Wandering around in a world

I use to know

the land I once called home

This time seem different

Things I looked forward to

friends who I considered

more than that

They are family

2 hours of extra time

seemed like  it was worth it

but time seemed to drag

as I became a stranger

in this other world I didn’t know

The people looked friendly enough

but they were all taken over

by the demons of the bottle

& even the people I knew

were lost in the lust of confusion

Suddenly the commotion hit

crashes of  glass & spills of red

like blood on the battle field.

As I looked  around for the hero to appear

I sadly did not feel secure

As I got my barrings about myself together

I wanted to feel I wasn’t alone

Yet the hero I thought was not a stranger to me

was the strangest one of all

As think back to leaving

all those faces behind

In the land I once called home

I realized when I came to the real world

my hero was left there too

Never would I have thought

in a million years

all the fools that we spoke of

that I was just one of them

the fool that you can make jokes of

Should I have known

that my choice was bad

to go to that world of many faces

Marching into that world of deceit

I could have chose many other places