Friday, January 27, 2017

Old Friend, Indeed

You thought I was dead, and sometimes I might be
But all of the world is nothing you see
Burned at the stake like a modern day witch
Resentful and angry son of a bitch

How can I be the man that you need?
When I don't even know what I want to be?
Still making choices I've come to expect
My life is in shambles, my brain is a wreck

The planet is cruel, I'm still getting old
Time's running out, I'm losing control

Stuck in a prison with unhappy walls
Drowning beneath my guilt waterfalls
Hopeless, so hopeless, no room to be free
Without all the pain that you'd get from me

Paddle against the current ahead
One little slip and we'd both become dead
I'd give you my air, you wouldn't accept
You'd want me to live with your dying last breath

The planet is cruel, I'm still getting old
Time's running out, I'm losing control

Copyright 2017 © Stephen Gedney

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