Hopeless - a random poem

[azure]

Although it's not incredibly outstanding, amazingly beautiful, wonderfully breathtaking, or an unmatchable masterpiece, it's the best I can do. XD It was randomly inspired when I was staring at the ceiling (yes, I do that when I'm bored). All comments and criticism welcome!

Happiness is a fleeting illusion
Beauty a vile creation of greed
Love is a fading hallucination
Warmth is the feeling made to mislead

Your facade and lies cannot conceal
What lies hidden within your heart
Joy is something you can never feel
All you can do is play your part

This world is harsh; there is no beauty
But you are naïve, you don’t have a clue
The strands of joy that hide reality
Are hopeless dreams that never come true

[KitClairvoyance]

It has a nice flow to it, that's for sure. One thing I like in particular is that it doesn't suffer from the "rhyming for rhyme's sake" syndrome. All the words work nicely together, and you don't get the odd sentence structure or word choice that happens when people try to force the rhyme. Which is a very good thing.

The one thing I would say about it though is that it could have more depth to it. As in, it's a poem about hopelessness, but I don't feel that hopelessness as I read it. You might want to try adding stronger imagery to it, or finding more precise words.

But yes, overall it's a rather good poem. ^^