V-Dawg
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« on: December 17, 2007, 11:30:09 PM » |
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So I started working full-time a couple of weeks ago and suffice to say, it hasn't exactly been a pleasant experience. I mean, I'm getting paid pretty well (more than most everyone I know at my age), but let's just say I'm not exactly enjoying it.
Anyways, while I had nothing to do, I pretended to be busy by writing this poem. It needs a bit of rewriting and such, but here it is in its current state.
"Nine to Five"
I sit here silently, forlorn, Whilst doing gibberish, I'm torn; Time trickles slowly and in scorn, Sometimes I wish I were unborn, And wake up in another place, And have a whole new different face, Without so much of a trace Of longing, lust and of disgrace. I'd start all over and I'd make Sure that I do it right and take Not all I can but what I need Cease putting on a show, being a fake; My fellow brethren I would heed, Because there's so much I must find, Learn and discover, mine Own battles I would fight And with my eyes I'd see the light And be in front and not behind. I'd seek for my right place, not theirs, My own path and methods where I could do that which I love And not be bored to tears and wear A frown endlessly and stare At a computer all day long And think of all that I did wrong To end up finally right here, where I'm a doll a puppeteer Is toying with and always fear That my own self I cannot be Not now, nor ever being free, Imprisoned in my own mistake, This curse I cannot lift nor break, And so I sit and long for hope That someday I will have, elope From this life to another scope, Where satisfaction can be found By me, yours truly, and unbound I'll find myself with every sound Of breath. What's that you say? It's foolish? That there is no way I'll pull it off, No matter to which god I pray, That it is nothing but a dream, A silly trance, a hopeless scheme, To start all over and anew? To this I smile because I knew From the beginning what it was, to you I shall this silly thing confess And hope my reader won't obsess That all of this is but a dream, A pointless ruse it all might seem, Yet dreams can keep a man alive When he has run out of his drive To live, to wake up, to go on Incessantly, and every dawn He questions why he does upon Remembering his one true cause, His whisper of a wish because That it is all he can afford And yet for him it is enough To have a tiny bit restored Of his own lifeblood and he goes To work, full knowing that the woes Won't stop, but what is he to do, To believe that which he knows true? He cannot go back, it's too late, It's chosen him, his cruel fate, And so he lives in his own world That he created, he unfurled, His own reality he weaves, But now that man must take his leave. It's here, it's nigh, time to revive, 'Tis time to go, it's almost five.
EDIT: Deleted my name, in the off chance someone from work happens to stumble on these message boards. As much as I dislike work, I don't want to get fired.
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