Fool's Gold

I mine for gold

My life has meaning!

But filling my heart

Is hell death screaming.

I mine for gold

Wasting light's day;

Rattling victory's chains

I live the 'freedom' way.

I mine for gold

As dreaming hope slides by;

The five o'clock whistle

Heaves a heavy sigh.

I mine for gold

In supported evil rich;

Watching working slaves

Who partner as the bitch.

I mine for gold

A ceaseless endless task;

A fellow inmate pleads:

"What does Sisyphus ask?"

I mine for gold

Deep in dark foul places;

In faint reflection seen

Eyeless forlorn faces.

I mine for gold

Its idolatry is cunning;

From a fortune in feelings

The poor soul is running.

I mine for gold

Forsaking my life's promise;

In yet bitterest complaint

Inescapable the harness.

I mine for gold

To reach lost paradise;

But night's clutching hands

Grip in shivering ice.

I mine for gold

As my deemed utility;

A waterless desert

Thirsting in futility.

I mine for gold

Never the goal is reached;

My fantasy of life

In gasping fatal breach.

I mined for gold

But to what end?

Defeated by

The sunset wind.