When Words Fail Me
When everybody is right is anybody wrong
sometimes my mind rambles losing its way
every so often it finds its way back
I don't know where it's going or coming from
we can predict the date of our birth
death is more elusive
my mind rambles like a bowl of letters
swimming aimlessly looking for the right words
my mind treads water and right words evade me
the right time has eluded my grasp
only to be of no use when I am alone
yet my mind escapes in no particular direction
I was looking out my window
I think it was a window inside a dream
an elusive dream the other side of a window
I had nowhere to go so there I went
I saw a man unkept with the scent of the streets
scratching a lottery ticket his face changes
from hope to hopeless back to the streets
could have been me or you
When words fail me
because my mind rambles in no direction
and the letters scramble to find each other
my past is in my rear view mirror
the days are getting shorter so is life
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