Did you dream the absurd while you were asleep? Were you fully awake and simply failed to weep? Sometimes at your responsibility and duty Other times at the natural and utter beauty Of all that the world has to offer someone who dares Or the nausea that strikes the moment you seem to care About the wrongdoings and injustices and total unfairness That serves to disrupt and corrupt your naïve awareness Of this place that envelopes and takes hold Shakes you and grates you as realities unfold Sending you rushing for a perch up high Just to get away, perhaps just to defy The inevitable fate that awaits us all The paradoxical conflict that’s sure to gall Dying to understand something beyond reach Wishing there was an agreement to breach So you wouldn’t have to deal with that word Universal and unrelenting, ‘tis the absurd