What Drives Men Crazy

By Mike Nelson

What drives men crazy is not what we did
as much as what we didn't do.
What was never said that needed to be spoken.
What could have been fixed,
We left broken.

We let work, friends and other forces drive us,
believing we could leave it at the door.
And as we fell, we never saw the floor.
We clawed our way back on our feet
and left nobody close.

Everybody knows they're
the one who loves you the most.
We destroyed lives after lives
because an old love owned us.
and we ran so fast
there was not much left of us.

We were proud of what we'd done,
but not always how we did it.
And we saw the end of our lives
With no love in it.