The Human Experience (A PoEM: 11/11/1991)

The Human Experience
I hate these feelings inside me
These straps that hold me down
I'm bound by my immortality
The Earth's earthlies keep me earth bound
Living for money, or for power
Desire still my soul's keeper
Drives the knife through my heart
And each day someone drives it deeper
Indecision my weakness
Failure my fear
And yet what I will fail
Will never be clear
Every moment so shallow
Yet this river looks so deep
Afraid to wade through the water
But pushed down
Drowning in illusions of a bottomless sea
Everyone's hand reaching to help me up
Pushing me down in what they cannot see.