Memory Go Round
Memory Go Round
I’m on the Memory Go Round
Repeating every thought and sound
Yet no answer is found
Inside my brain I feel my heart pound
My clock tick talking
Because it’s too tightly wound
On this circular motion I’m bound
Yesterday today and tomorrow
are bound together by sorrow
Up and down motion quicksand slow
Capitulation inside my brain
Questions to answers I’ll never know
The Memory Go Round horror show
Infusing my being head to toe
Each turn feels like another blow
Riding toy horses with maniacal eyes
Memories sickeningly familiar I despise
Reigns held tightly as I hold on with my thighs
Feeling the fear inside me sink and rise
I smile at distant pretty musical lies
while wondering if pretending is all that wise
Then with each rotation my inner child dies
And no one cares when he cries
It seems that familiar doesn’t provide rest
this Memory Go Round is my test
Other’s crimes will never be confessed
on these funhouse images I’m obsessed
Rotating from East back to West
Paint peeled and yellowed, wood splintered
I must get free, time to jump off and be blessed.
Copyright © Richard Lamoureux | Year Posted 2018
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