How I Wish Today Was Just A Bad Dream
Oh how I wish with my yearning nostalgic heart
That I could wake up to find
Today had just been a nightmare of a dream
And it was still the wonderful 1980s
When I was still young carefree and so nieve
And what I could have been
And what I could have achieved
Life back then was less complicated
People were generally more happy then
And we still had hope to cling onto and dared to dream
Those cherished halcyon days
Sadly to know they will never come back again
Everything was new and exciting
There was a kind of buzz in the air
There was Phil Okey from the Human League
And Boy George looks like's
In town everywhere
My mates and I with our mullet spikey haircuts
And New Romantics gear
Would go from pub to pub drinking
And songs by Visage Soft Cell The Cure The Thomson Twins
Were the bands we loved and the music we'd like to hear
The first Sweet blossoming of fumbled romance
So tender as I remember the butterflies fluttering nervously
In my belly and how we used to love to sing and dance
We'd kiss and embrace tenderly and be lost in a blissful dream
On the back seat of the cinema is where we used to go
In a bus shelter and the park
Hoping my Blisters and Mother
Wouldn't know
Strawberry and Canada dry glossy lipstick
Was what they used back then
So luscious sweet and delicious
The heavenly and delightful fragrance of their hair
And the appealing feminine pretty clothes
They used to wear
How I miss those days and the girls
Everyone has a place in my heart
No matter what they put me through
Both Good and bad
Although it rips my heart apart
Back then I really lived
But now something inside me has died
I'm not the happy person that I used to be
Only dear God knows the internal tears
And how I've suffered and kept it all inside
No longer loved or wanted by anyone
I spend my days alone
And still haven't found myself
And although I've searched endlessly
My heart still has no home
I worry about the future
And don't want to die alone
If only today
Was a bad dream
Peter Dome©2024.
Copyright © Peter Dome | Year Posted 2024
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