Thief of Joy

Thy neighbors gold becomes affliction
Thoughts invade one's head, shape-shifting to brooding
Space in a glass once seen as half full
Empty, it's absence occupies a mind's eye

Past a rigid dream of man-made utopia
Pre-conceived
Is a soul complete
Devoid of the pain of how it ""should"" be

To see another's fortune throw your own out
Leave you behind

Thief of joy
An admiration changing its color
To bitter as thoughts swirl
Untamed and wild

A mere idea
An awareness of an absence and our treasure is gone
While it sits right here

To see another's fortune throw your own out
Leave you behind
To see a brother's fortune suffocating you in your mind

To see the devil's bliss in suffocating you in your mind
To bear the burden of envy

Thief of joy
An apathy transforming its shape
To ill will as thoughts swirl
Unleashed and savage
Thief of joy
What once was love transformed to hatred
Scowls in the face of brother's elation

Past a rigid dream of man-made utopia
Pre-conceived
Is a soul complete
Devoid of the pain of how it should be
Where one is whole with one's reality
Impenetrable to the mind's worst thief