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 © Nick Armbrister Jimmy Boom Semtex | Year Posted 2014
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