Pain The Way

Pain is the name of the game
Or at least it seems to be its goal
The journey looks all the same
Coveting what time has stole

What is one to do?
What is one to hope?
Horde the very few
Or lasso up the rope

Balance at the end of a string
Burning at both ends
What does life now bring?
Where are the portends?

Is it all chaos without rules?
Ferrying ourselves to infinity
Are we then just fools
Sailing into the ocean of futility?

A near hit a, a near miss
Steer myself from the rocks
No chance for any bliss
No opportunity knocks

Capsize the small raft
Nobody will even care
My thinking was daft
Nothing in life is fair.