Documentary

Tonight on TV
A generation defined
Radical and loud

Where was I back then?
Out in the garage painting
Trying to make my mark

Forming a collage
Fragments of experience
Quietly plodding

The music was on
The words fillling up my head
Fantasy pressures

Yearning to belong
Cautious laughing at the jokes
Not understanding

The rockers look old
They have white hair like I do
But they are still cool

Weathered by the drugs
Recalling their youthful pranks
Gratefully clinging

Life is not one thing
Even in the good old days
Changes come so fast

Challenging us all
To remember the good parts
Letting the fame die

Documenary
Justifying for all time
Remembering lives
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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