Same Old Dream
as the world wakes
to make, and take and break
as the light draws near
a sneering voice in my ear says
wake, you have your part to take
you have your time to make and break
to sleep to dream
to make mistakes
another way
another day
To lose your hair
to change your face
to work for a while
to earn your place
to dance at parties
to sing and laugh
to have quiet times
and long candlelit baths
to find true love and lose it again
to see see death and violence
too profound to explain
to hope or to pray
to leave or to stay
to travel, to see
what this world contains
And each morning the world awakes
repeats its warning
to make, and take and break
as the light draws near
a sneering voice in my ear says
wake, we have your bones to break
Sun creaks insidiously across my floor
Cars car by outside
and my bladder is sore
Copyright © Greig Turnbull | Year Posted 2018
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