Our only sin…
Thinking we can be anything we wanted to be…
Lofty dreams… Pompous ideals… Shot down by the arrows of depression and expectation unfulfilled..
See, this journey… We began without map.. Compass… Or sense of direction…
They call us lost boys… Animals.. Criminals… Nihilist… Without a purpose we roam… Without pride we scourge…
In cages we’re thrown… In the streets we’re gunned down… By others… By each other… By whoever…
It’s ok… Because they were lost…
Blame it on me… Blame it on the system.. Blame it on whoever… Cause it doesn’t matter… Least not to you…
So where do our lost boys go… Where is their land of milk and honey… Where do they grow to become men…
Ensnared in a vicious cycle of kidulthood… Left to roam for eternity…
40 days and 40 nights of searching and searching…
Days of ridicule… Nights of spite… Days of reprieve… Nights of intoxication…
Drowning out the voices… Drowning out the echoes..
What’s a boy to do when becoming a man is no option…
No beard… No hunting… No gathering… No family… No worth…
Devalued… Left to rot… Guilded… And the cycle continues… Another boy is born and picks up where the other left off…
They stripped us…
They raped us…
The molested us…
They robbed us of our inheritance…
Left us abandoned… Wallowing in our own filth… And told us to find our way home…
A boy can’t traverse a path designed for a man… A boy can’t go home if he has the slightest idea who he is…
All what’s left to do… But look up at the stars.. And ask.. Am I meant to be here?
Curse the stars! They snatched us from our cradle… They forced us to be their cup bearers… Passed around among em.. In a state of catharsis… Zombified… So embellished with the torture that we grow numb to it’s impact…
We simply act and do without thinking… And when they are done… We’re left to rot and birth another…
Another to be just like us… In form… In function…
Another born with original sin…another Christ forced to self-sacrifice…crucified… With no hope of resurrection…