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Will the time come again
or is it all over now
Where laughter came easily
because I can't remember now

Wasn't is so much better once?
Wasn't it not so hard?
Wasn't there a shedded skin
that was fresh and soft, unscarred?

Or is that just false memory
A picture on a card
masking forgotten tragedy
So I would drop my guard

Was it ever not so bad?
Was everything ever ok?
Or was the past a knotted rope
just like the present day

that winds itself and coils around
to form a strangling noose
I didn't see it coming again
and now I can't get loose

What have I done?
What now? What then?
To get caught in the trap of dispair
over and over and over again
found dangling and gasping for air

I'll dig out my smile and put it on my face
For misery shouldn't breed company
On the stage of perception, I take my place
a mannequin of sanity. .





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