The Lost Boy Poem by SkufiuS Trood

Lyrics to a song that I wrote for an old band of mine.
I told the band it was about a homeless man and how he got to where he got to. But the truth was, each verse reflected my view of each member and myself at the same time in that particular stage.
Our faults and damages. Our position in life. Humility and stubbornness.
1st verse is about my relationship with my father and family. How I try my best to impress my father with my loyalty and yet never felt appreciated. How I felt stuck because the paths I had paved for myself wasn't fit for my father's expectations nor approval. When the rest of my world and crowd continued on in life to adventure and experience, I was left at the beckoning call of tradition and chores. Old school island father and new aged urban son.
2nd verse is about how the year passes and I remain in the same place. Before I marked June as a the end of a race for we school kids in a school year. The June now brings a heavy load to my immobility. My bass player lives a common California timeless existence of surfing and smoking marijuana on the daily to pass the time and stress. No longer children and not with careers, we feel as outcasts to the corporate and conservative world around us. He doesn't want a life of money and material, just a continuous bliss of fun. But time continues to work and are youth will only leave us to a used and withered life.
3rd verse is of another member's fight with drug addiction. Tries his best at an artsy rock and roll lifestyle but his consummation interferes with his art. Always finding another outlet to nosedive, he influences a new page to only scribble the nothingness of our substance. We are seen as odd and different in the place we stand and it leaves us to wrestle with our emotions and stubbornness.
We are self destructing constructors of the masterpiece we wear on our faces. Will we be noticed? will we be heard? will we be comforted? will we be remembered? will we be respected? will we be removed? will we be homeless? will we be destroyed? not known for the Jade Sunrise band members... till then, they are Lost Boys.