Missed Opportunities

Missed Opportunities

I should have been more than this, now on the dole 
with nothing but my skills and memories and hopes. 
How I yearn for my book to be published 
and to be a paid writer, now just a distant dream 
far away from me. 

In the meantime I’m trying to get a good job 
but that eludes me, a hospital porter 
and to earn some half decent cash. 

I want a goth girl to be by my side, 
to understand and to love me in the years 
of my life, now passing me by. 
I will get these but for so long…

I should have been more than this, now on the dole 
with nothing but my skills and memories and hopes. 
How I yearn for my book to be published 
and to be a paid writer, now just a distant dream 
far away from me. 

In the meantime I’m trying to get a good job 
but that eludes me, a hospital porter 
and to earn some half decent cash. 

I want a goth girl to be by my side, 
to understand and to love me in the years 
of my life, now passing me by. 
I will get these but for so long…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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