world turning

by slim twit - Leo

My thoughts are boundless 
my head is spinning
and from the position I'm in
I feel like I'm drowning.

Maybe a million miles away from here
a little girl is shedding a tear
for the father she lost only this morn
Oh, how her heart must be torn.

Yet,I choose to sit her and sulk 
over the passion for my spilled milk.
Simple nothings touch me so
that I wonder why I don't just go
into to the oblivion that my friends have chose.
It's an oblivion of carelessness
an oblivion of happiness
an oblivion of distance to me.

This is a time for joy
not a time to toy
with the simple emotions
 that taunt me so.

"Yell a little louder" I think.
I think it's time for bed
but this hopelessness into which I've been led
is like a fish without a tail
There are no walls but it's like a jail.
A stranded boat without a sail.
A bard without a tale
to tell to the crowd which gathers round
they are silent they don't make a sound
some sit motionless upon the ground
The children who want to play have a frown.
as the bard searches for words
he takes a step forward
The crowd waits with anticipation
The bard can not be emancipated
from the blocking wall inside his head
his heart is filled with nails of dread
but once the nervoussness fades away
he does what he must to earn his pay.

His tin cup is filled with change
he will use it to cure his hunger pains
off to the shop he starts to walk
When he is hit by a passing truck.

His change flies through the air
landing in the hands of a childless pair
of people who look horrified
at the truck which has just passed by
It turns the corner on two of it's wheels
with a police car hot on it's heels.

On the truck there is a lock
that's attached to the door on the truck
behind the door lies some goods
stolen from a nearby neighbor hood.

The man ran over was the father of the daughter
who morns this day with her mother.
the childless pair can now afford
the bills put on them by this world.
Of course the theif will be caught
by the cops and probably get 20 to life.
The audience of people will come home
to find that their stereos were stolen
but thanks to the cop it all gets returned
and these things'll happen as long as the world turns.

Reason for writing:

    My problems aren't big    

Birth sign: Leo
Date created: 2000-04-12 00:26:52
Last updated: 2021-04-14 17:18:10
Poem ID: 55451

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