Keine Antworten
David J Walker
Old German Ghosts
Dangle their ragged feet
Over the lava flow
Of Spandau
Wondering
What went wrong
So long
Ago
But they will
Never know
It’s the thing of which
Hell is made
A burned book of
No answers
Checked out
But never returned
"All you need is love"
Can love be my life when I'm dying for love?
Can it fed us when we are starving for food?
Can love quench one's thirsty throat?
"Diamonds are forever"
There's no space for that never-ending forever...
Eternal infinity?
Perpetual immortality?
"You are gold"
Can you be my unlimited wealth of hundred-fold?
Spending your very last
Making me rich and famous...do not last...
"I'm out of my league once again"
Consciously hallucinating
Laughing with my idiosyncrasies
Asking desperate queries...
**Beatles
**Shirley Bassey
**Spandau Ballet
**Stephen Speaks
Hunger, I dived
In absolute depression
A sterilized sheet
From your world to mine
I have a box
It is cardboard and ripped
Beaten to the curb, returned and dogged
It holds a million memories and cruel reminders
They pull me like a puppet
Dance under clouds of acid rain
As I breathe you in and drown below the barre
Perils and luminance fade into melodramatic ballets
Childish games where everybody dies in the end
Neatly in time with the jump of a rope
I close my eyes in replica beloved
Memorial and fade into sleep
To wake for us both
As you sleep for only one
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Spandau Ballets are Nazi death marches. When people were marched to the gas chambers that
is a Spandau Ballet.
I'm not talking about the band...though they are/were amazing.
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