My Thing

by FEEDBACK - Capricorn

My Thing

I one time owned a thing,
A fantastic thing,
Timeless and clean, with neither a scratch nor ding,
With the thing, my heart raced,
Jumping gleefully from place to place,
Why, this thing’s presence was a saving grace.
Owning the thing gave me face,
and without haste,
I bragged of my thing, and my good taste,

Think not this thing o so great
The thing was a complete waste,
tampering my youthful and foolish fate.

Renowned was I,
my talents known far and wide,
my gut now demoralized in  feverish pride,
 As I was beside myself,
Once only another book on the shelf, now a star,
Dismay I felt, my soul gone afar amidst all this wealth.

The plot always thickens,
one thinks,
" His name is Charles, surely he is Dickens."
I neither write nor fright as Marley once did,
I am just a kid, in others presence I shrink
NOT SOMETHING TO EXITE WHEN IN SIGHT,
MY THING SHINED NO BRIGHTER,
than the pale moonlight…

I am wise of the world now, people come to me,
from old men to little girls,
This thing has brought about all I despise ,
So long saving grace,
Now I am a runner who has lost pace,
A toddler in outer space…

As I lie on my floor so empty,
I try to make sense while deeply in thought,
of what having is,
that piece of mind is not..


Birth sign: Capricorn
Date created: 1999-07-18 01:01:06
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:15
Poem ID: 52919

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