Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Round and round January 20, 2014

 

You hear it in the rafters

The creak of feet,

Of ghosts perhaps,

Quiet and yet also deafening

Since all your attention is fixed

On what you fear,

This whisper, a warning

Only her soul can understand,

Testimony to years of defeat,

And as hard as she’s tried

To be aware of the call

When it comes, she still miseses it,

Partly due to the drone of life

That drowns it out,

Making her deaf to the message

She is so desperate to hear,

What she wanted, what she still wants

For herself, a message, an opportunity

Lost because she lives

Her life in ear.

How does she go back

And make herself hear what

She failed to hear in the first place,

How does she change the course of her life

To get what she wanted, the gold ring

She can’t quite reach as the

Merry go round goes round

That prize she still hopes to reach

If she can overcome her fear

 


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