Uncertainty / by Nick Arneson

Except, no one cares

I show my soul 

Get only blank stares

supposed to weather 

All uncertainty 

And what my ego requires 

Means I’ll never be free 

I’m always looking 

For uncertain answers 

My course is certain 

No doubt what the plans are 

Yet the need for approval

And the whims or the masses 

Ensures the removal

Of rose colored glasses 

As this is a long haul 

With no rest for the weary 

The order is tall

The short term is dreary 

They say doubt is normal 

A routine occurrence 

Though this flood of rebuttal 

Makes me question my sense

What’s to keep me from quitting

What’s making me stay  

Probably better than shitting

My whole life away

On a whim or a vision 

I caught late at night 

Enshrining my mission 

In spiritual light 

Yet aging is real 

And it’s a time for the young 

My grey hairs reveal 

This songs likely been sung 

There’s a place in exhaustion

Where it stops making sense 

Same as flaunting the caution 

Getting down off the fence