Painfully aware honesty hurts

What worked before no longer works

New strains appear day after day

Resisting the old cures at increasing rates

Miscalculation

Memories fading away

Black aggravation giving birth this way

Sick of dilution tired of politics

Experimental drug with unknown side effects

Hold on to the past for dear life

Decaying relic of a simpler time

Outdated methods rendered obsolete

The tried and the true cannot compete

Self amputation escape from the trap

Cut loose I am forced to change and adapt

Chemical baptism through this I am reborn

I welcome my mutation into another form

Hold on to the past for dear life

Decaying relic of a simpler time

Outdated methods rendered obsolete

The tried and the true cannot compete