100 Days

Blessed are the fresh-faced youths who hold Gilded soirees sacred And sacrifice pure human hearts to hatred The dorms, so drowned in apathy Converts any dreamer doleful Until the downcast are dispersed to the cold 100 days Vanish into haze Til one soul will breach this bunker wall And explode into fanfare All class dismissed, the soul exchanged for paper As dropouts take their fragile fall And justice suffers, vanquished Truth exiles, no one to reinstate her 100 days Vanish into haze 100 days Vanish into haze After all, the fledgling thrush does fall Do they remember why they left the nest at all Innocence is gone, but others carry on In spite of all the memories, studying and misery Can't decode the mystery of how to rise above The mental escape with alcohol Converts a dream into a nightmare Forbidden fruit has now chained up your welfare In May, I briskly walk the stage To close that cursed chapter Forget naïve kids focus on what I'm after What I'm after