The Fountain Of Youth

When we were young

Soft in age and tender in thoughts

We lived our lives in the shadows of our desires

Our eardrums were insidious

And lessons tapped on them sunk deep

We had no childhood

We just grew up too fast

Our lives were movie scenes already scripted

And all we did was play into character

We were advised to do as told

Because wisdom as they said rest on the tongue of the old

So we followed

Without having to question the leader

Our tongues were deceased

And we had mouths for caskets

We became mobile mortuaries

Buried in ourselves

Cases of emptiness

They told us about music

That the secular type was devilish

But sometimes it’s cool to ride with the devil when the angel seems too boring

They never told us about sex

Their faces wore darkness every time the issue sprouted

So in our curiosity we became the lab rats

As we made experiments off our burning blood and our sisters came back home with pot bellies as test results

We became under aged parents

They told us it was easy to serve GOD

But they never foresaw skin flick as a sub religion

Our minds were hotel reservations

Equipped with pre-dressed bedrooms ready to skin-teract with any eve we laid taste on

They told us about education

Answer to all questions

So we lived our years in pursuit of degrees that never paid the bills afterwards

Funny how we became question marks ourselves

As we star trekked the streets with our worth measured in A4 papers and font size letters

Suicidal ropes hung on our necks disguised as ties

They said our talents were irrelevant

So we let them flame in the bonfire

We are the inhalers of grief

The socially asthmatic

The ones who had no option to reincarnate their options

So all we did was stare at our lives as they sped past us

We became the dead while alive

We are the walking mannequins

They say experience is the best teacher

But we lived most of our lives experiencing

That we never had time to live properly