Check Yourself

         Check Yourself

Taking a walk down the street
It struck me sharply just today
A chip of rock that left a welt
And made me remember in dismay

What failure my last year has been
With no progress made in life so far
No signs of exiting this situation
No grants from wishes upon a star

Checking myself into an asylum
Was a little too close to sane
There were no pills I could afford
No good reason for me to remain

Am I crazy? Or just lazy
Has sleepy dust clouded my eye?
Have I lost my way in search
For truth and only lived a lie?

This heartless self-evaluation
Is the bitterest draught I've tasted
This is my life; I'm stuck with it
And all the breaths I have wasted