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Yestermorrow (Poem)  by mjm942

I saw you looking through a glass

To magnify your past

Looking through a photo of yourself

Spin around 'til you get tired

To fight the fact that you're hard wired, today.

 

Crystal balls and crazy eights

Cauldron pots and great escapes

Don't you know there's magic all around you

Lights come on when you wake up

You drink with God from the Devil's cup, today.

 

Crooked kings and a voodoo witch

Sing low key just off pitch

Rolling down their crumbling hill of bones

Lick your finger, throw your knife

'Cause you miss it all if you blink twice, today.

 

Circumstances drop again

To stain the ink of a fountain pen

Things unraveling all the while you breathe

One man laughs, another screams

Mother's cry from broken dreams, today

 

Scratch your leg or squash a bug

Paint the room or wreck the rug

Decisions are just questions you don't know

Hammers come to other's walls,

When you put yourself on pause, today.

 

Broken glass and hearing aids

Sold by scamsters, double paid

Laughing, driving, running down your flat

You think once, but never twice

About if you even own your life, today.

 

Brothers Grimm and Mother Goose

Had no hate for Dr. Suess

Don't let them pin yourself on up against you

I knew a man from a fairytale,

That burnt all his books on his shelf, today.

 

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Date created: July 16, 2009
Date published: July 16, 2009
Comments: 0
Tags: lyrics, poem, poetry
Word Count: 316
Times Read: 141
Story Length: 1