Building Utopia

Lonely city, lost, alone
Kingdom of decrepit lives
crumbled buildings, raining down
upon these barren streets of lies

Nothing dwells within the dank
the decay of memories frayed
black and sodden, brown and crude
where tainted dreams are made

See the tower, white and cold
above the ruined land of past
see the people bound within
chained and tethered, safe at last

Storms corrupted bleak with death
brings corroding breath ‘er long
but the seeping poison fails
against the fortress bold and strong

Hear the silence echo still
the muted voices deep inside
striving onto bigger, better
eloquent systems of demise

within the miles of thickened walls
past a million safe guards dwells
The perfect cube of silver glass
a man-made heaven, man-made hell

Paradise existing as one wishes
trials and toils, left to be
no pain, no hurt, within Utopia
never wanting to be free 
 
Built into a world made over
locked together the voices grow
To think its life, to think its living
but to never dream, they’ll never know