Words words words
Only so many words
so many ways they can be heard
Every word ever used
Abused
So many ways they have been arranged
Rearranged
Deranged
Put this way and that
Hi, my name is Pat
When do our words run out
Nothing new left to shout
Sit there and pout
No new stories to write
All that is left is the fight
You just rewrite the old
Stories already sold
Every word
Already heard
Just twist it here
there
Without care
Nothing left to say
Same thing every day
Hey, I'm in a book
Have a look
A life time it took
But still the same
Lame
I know I'm to blame
I see tomorrow
Past all sorrow
Love you can't even borrow
Lost in plain sight
Hidden from the inner fight
Words is the curse
The worse
Grown up with an autistic view
In the well in which I grew
All I ever knew
I think
I blink
Longing for a common link
If nurtured right
With love as a light
Maybe out will come a beautiful flower
Something life seems to sour
By the hour
Lost in the sarcasm of what is real
How should I even feel
Hidden among the words I write
My only light
Nothing is ever right
Nothing ever wrong
Sorry these words are taken so long
Life promised me a song
But here I am still holding on to the light
Continue my fight
Words bombing my brain
Drives me next to insane
Maybe one day they will run out
In my brain, no longer shout
Peace at last
Going so fast
I see times past
So clear
Memories held dear
Some in fear
Among a crowd
The silence beats so loud
Waiting
Not hating
Relating
With what I know not
My heart beats so hot
People I don't understand
Life ain't that grand
My word
Still unheard
Lost in my head
Love never fed
Lonely is my bed
Trying to write them all down
So in them I don't drown
Waiting for the words to run dry
Tears one will cry
Don't know why
Madness
Is the same as sadness
Is sometimes gladness
One and the same
Whom is to blame
Wish to be free
What is left to see
Who am I meant to be
Drowning in the word
Never to be heard
Copyright © William P. Harris | Year Posted 2023
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