There is always war
There is always injustice
There is always prejudice
There is always an unfair draw
coming down the line with furious intentions
There is always a bad rap
There is always a fade out
There is always a lost cause
There is always less to the story
than we would like to believe
But I don’t care about all that
There is always a yawning grave
There is always a last remorse
There is always a tearful goodbye
There is always a word
we wish we had of spoken in the end
There is always a blank stare
There is always a painful memory
There is always a truth lost to the ages
There is always a path
that could have been taken toward glory
But I don’t care about all that
There is always a canceled check
There is always a lapse in judgment
There is always a second best
There is always a future
that gets thwarted in the chaos storm
There is always a nagging feeling
There is always a broken promise
There is always a stolen future
There is always a dream
that never quite comes to fruition
And I do care about it all
regardless of what I might have said
or forgotten to say