flashing lights

Flashing lights of red and white Spinning spheres of rubber Splashing through the dead of night Toward the figure in the gutter Seemingly perfect life Tortured souls in plain sight Chameleons of hapless blight Conundrums filled with contradiction Humdrum days of aimless attrition If only a vision If only a snippet An illumination of the damaged Instead of, only crickets We in the thicket, we in the thick of it God dammit, and my brains ran the gamut And I cannot understand it, can you Do you have a view, do you have a clue Like a board game, I'm bored man I might drain, everything Scared, a shadow bounds down the street In a white van gunning me, or trying The validity I fail to see, is this a fantasy Wheels screeching, the van is reaching As I sprint down the alley Then I'm reaching, a doorway To stow me away, and I think of Sally Voices echo, I let go, flash flash flash Life before my eyes, the memories flood As the thought that I might die, flood Through my mind, why did the design Work out this way I'll never find A rhyme or reason, to the treason To the disease and to the mean And violent mean men I hope that your season might change But I am perceiving something that Won't happen, it's quite strange Kneeling, hoping, and the lights go by My heart beating, so fast inside My chest, oh my oh my Life is a mystery maze And a random fantasy, I can't wait to see And that's the joke that I'm telling you The joke that I'm telling you The joke that I'm telling you The joke that I'm telling you Clowns abound in the endless nights Clowns abound in the endless nights Clowns abound in the endless nights Clowns around, endless fights Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months And years, so little by, ticking so fast Makes you wonder what's yonder How short our time is And how we choose to plunder What's asunder