Put it all in a song

I want to put it all in one song

but it won't fit

So many things keep me awake at night

vivid memories of regret,

something I should be doing and don't

endless what if's and perhaps

never quite happy with what we have

we torture ourselves in our sleep

Do you remember when we talked our way

into the new millennium?

A 2,000 filled with promise, just needed

to take a step outside of ourselves,

we felt we could eat the world up

but now there is only hurt

I ran away too fast and fell over myself

I didn't realise I was still attached

Tore me into pieces.

Now I'm humming along to the music

pretending to know the words

and trying not to piss on myself.

Is it just me or is anyone else feeling kind of lost?

Do the super-rich disgust you

and the poor make you feel guilty

of your plenty?

Is there strange serendipity when you read the gossip

as if you live next door to Miley Schwarzenegger

and are complaining about her irritating trashy pop music

being played too loudly

have you heard it all before?

Do you have nightmares of having your head chopped off

because you don't follow the right religion

or of being gunned down when you are sunbathing

on a remote beach

Kalashnikovs are arriving on rubber dinghies.

Does online seem more real than every day?

We post, postmoderns, Xennials

With an analogue childhood and digital adulthood

and virtual Millenials

are all lost in our heads,

 and it's making us all morose.