Modern Men

Another day,
Another dollar.
You take the bag your wife prepared,
The lunch you did nothing for.
Yet, you're still loved..
AS if the 2 week pay check granted you,
the free pass you deemed self righteous enough to take...

You tip your coffee gal from Starbucks,
that for some reason you like to flirt with.You've even daydreamed about her...
Forget you're married?
"Thanks for the coffee."
The Routine.

You wonder why,
you wake up,
not to excited for the new day.
you keep pushin' for something new,
a raise, or that opportunity that will change everything.
Yet work is just a routine.
Life is just a routine,
You're wife... God bless her...
When was it she you set your mind to..?
even your kids can see,
that you're oblivious of the families needs..
It's not about the 20 dollars you give them each weekend,
or the keys to a car...
No those things don't matter...
It's the time you spend with them,
teaching them,
Loving them....

Your wife,
Is she that transparent?
Remember your wedding day?
Your honey moon?
the first time y'all laid together...
You pacify her with a bottomless credit card,
or jewelry,
but it you she wants...
You try to keep secrets from her,
man you dirty coward of a man.
You're a bastard.
You know...
She actually knows...
She checks your computer at night,
she feels the coarseness of your skin
and that emptiness you have...

Little do you know,
that you're wastin'
this one chance at life.
Like a modern man you forget,
that your wife is there,
even at night you're oblivious to the fact that,
she cries herself to sleep at night.

You can't sleep at night,
nor do you dream much anymore,
When you do dream,
You dream of going somewhere,
that place, that chance of a life time,
that you were even close of getting there.
Yet... you woke up.
then realize... you went nowhere.

Realize this -
You'll go nowhere,
when anything is the object of your desires.
You're dull my friend.

How do you live with yourself?
You don't get it.
As you can't see anything anymore,
even your reflection is dull,
as is your eyes.
it's as if you constantly walk,
with a shade of grey dulling everything you see.

Wake up! Snap out of it.
It's nobodies fault but yourself.
Don't pretend you're worth much of anything.
Talkin' yourself up,
will only get you so far.

If you don't wake up.
Someday you will lose it all.
Nothing is more important than the wife that shares your bed with you.
Or the children you help bring into this world.
Don't be that guy that will regret it all...