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Counting stars on a warm night.<br />
I swear I knew Scorpio<br />
in days when it mattered.<br />
If you asked me, I'd be Orpheus<br />
and sing you from sleep.<br />
But today, I'm only me<br />
living on the frozen side of Mars<br />
where life is a funny, frozen thing.<br />
<br />
Yesterday, I was a young man.<br />
Today, I am a young man with an old heart,<br />
hiding a troubled mind; vexed and overly complex,<br />
worrying about things it shouldn't.<br />
Things that seem a momentary matter;<br />
a minor infraction to some.<br />
And to others, the pattern<br />
of a life worn thin by disappointment.<br />
<br />
I feel like a kid who's waiting for his ride to come.<br />
Come on and pick me up from the back parking lot.<br />
Behind me is a field of endless orange merrigolds.<br />
I'm standing with a back to beauty,<br />
listening to disonant bells chime and waiting for 10 to pass.<br />
Come on and remind me that time<br />
doesn't stand still for anyone.<br />
<br />
So I, like a restless wanderer<br />
do wonder and dream<br />
(But even dogs do dream.)<br />
of a field of azure lilacs<br />
that open beneath a sky that blooms too;<br />
a deep, rich, amber hue<br />
that bleeds into red,<br />
into purple, and back into blue.<br />
<br />
I dreamt last night that the ocean<br />
was a blue china plate spinning on a long thin rod;<br />
teetering on the brink of disaster.<br />
The fish held their breath<br />
each time the juggler left<br />
to see to another world that was turning.<br />
<br />
We all watched too<br />
as the ocean of blue<br />
china on a long thin rod<br />
tumbled and flew<br />
like the acrobats do<br />
only landing with all the grace<br />
that a cat at the end of its nine lives can.<br />
<br />
I rushed to wake up.<br />
And looking back, I thought I saw<br />
the mermaids shake their heads at the mess<br />
like one who's resolved not to be upset<br />
at the ocean of wet<br />
blue china on a long thin floor.<br />
<br />
There are loud people<br />
and there are short people...<br />
There are tall, proud people<br />
and there are short people...<br />
I've walked that road, alone in the sun<br />
in the middle of everyone.<br />
<br />
These dreams are but a passing thing.<br />
And love, the end without a means.<br />
But if you asked me, it would be sunset again.<br />
If you wanted, I'd be Leo...<br />
<br />
At twenty-two minutes early I'm sitting beneath<br />
a shadow I'm convinced I'm fond of; <br />
on the frozen side of Mars<br />
where life is a funny, frozen thing.<br />
On the frozen side of Mars<br />
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This is my
first time so
please give me
honest
comments. I
write
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-sigh-
"it's
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I wrote this
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wrote it strait
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