The Veldt
December 26, 2020
Let’s give them a bright room
Where the children’s thoughts can bloom
Fantastical thoughts fill their heads
Ethereal worlds and flowerbeds
We’ll fabricate them an escape from this place
And evade the problems we’re too timorous to face
We’ll fill their heads with fantastical lies
And unknowingly feed us to the lion’s pride
And before we’ve noticed that they’re too far gone
Their beautiful escape turned corrupt; deformed
Once spectacular beasts, both terrible and sublime
Their world now a symbol that we’ve run out of time
Their bright room, now a fright room
Home to our grotesque demise
For we were far too foolish to only realize
The frights for which we built this treacherous escape
We could have fixed together but we watched with mouths agape
We could have been united in simplicity alone
Maybe that simplicity would make a true HappyLife Home
If we talked through their fantastical thoughts, we may not have lost our heads
And we may not have bought a Happylife home where simplicity is dead.