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HOW Do WE ESCAPE Our JOURNEY

How do we Escape our Journey?

 

Is it possible to escape this?

Can I find shelter in my basement?

Will the dust and musk mask it?

As I desperately fall apart

My lungs are filled with smoke

And blood fills up my eyes

I leak a tear of dreams as I float to the sky

I try all day to live this way

But with my age I feel it growing harder

My drunken voyages are running low

Me, see I need adventurous life

this world can get so dull sometimes

So away I go, head held high

I cannot move on

Until the lamps around me flicker with haloed light

Don’t let it speed on by.

The winds are viscous

They howl so ghoulish as I

Scream at the stars until they fall

Wishes like sand blow away in the storm

Better to believe in myself

Than a shot in the dark

I spend to much time speaking to the heavens

They aren’t there for me

Not to be my genie

But seriously I need to figure it out

What about this person I am

Needs to be straightened out

Could it be a sick parasitical infection?

Or just self doubt about imperfection

They do say Virgos think in that direction

Which way should I go?

I guess like I always try to say

Life as we know is about how we portray

The journey that is

Cause if it was simple it would never be

Life as we know it is about the journey

 

 


— DloganB, May 09, 2010

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