Vacancy

THIS TRAGIC LIFE HAS DEALT SOME BLOWS VERY FEW CAN GET UP FROM

I'M CONVINCED THE DAR OF NIGHT BRINGS  GREAT COMFORT

WHERE BEFORE THERE WAS ONLY FEAR

TO NOT SEE BEFORE ME

REMOVES EXPECTATION AND DISAPPOINTMENTS FROM MY GRASP

I WANT NOT

SO THE DISGUSTING MELODY OF YOUR WORDS FALLS ON DEAF EARS

TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE AND FOR YOU

I SHALL NEVER AGAIN HOLD MY BREATH

DEAR LOVE,

I ADMIT IT YOUR SADISTIC SARCASM HAS CARVED SOLID MARKINGS

IN THE CEMENT OF MY SPIRIT

TRAPPED ARE THE DREAMS I ONCE HELD DEAR

AS A YOUNG NOVICE LONGINGLY I SET ASIDE SOLID LEADS

FOR THOSE SMOKED THROUGH A PIPE

BITTER WAS THE TASTE ON MY LIPS

COUGHING, CHOKING, AND INHALING THIS BLACK LIFE

LUNGS NOW DISMANTLED

BY THE ASHES OF SUCH TREACHERY

I SIT HOPING MY NEXT OF KIN FINDS DNR ORDERS IN MY SAFE DEPOSIT BOX

TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD WOULD BEHOOVE THIS WEARY SOUL OR

THE TEACHINGS OF BIG MAMMA WERE FOR NAUGHT.

I ENTERED INTO THIS WORLD ON A WING & A PRAYER 

REPENT OR REMORSE'S ALL I GOT

THERE MUST BE A PLACE WHERE I BELONG; 

WHERE MY INNER DREAMER IS SET FREE

RIDICULED I WAS IN THIS FLESH

WALKING THIS EARTH

WHEN THE ONLY PERSON I KNEW TO BE WAS ME

TROUBLES DON'T LAST ALWAYS OR JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING?

A WIVE'S TALE AS TALL AS MY CYCLE KEPT ME 

FROM HOLDING NEW LIFE IN MY ARMS

CRADLED TO MY BOSOM

CRIMSON STREAKS CURDLE IN ON THEMSELVES RUSHING

TO ESCAPE THE WOUND OVER MY HEART

I KNEW I WOULD HAVE TO DIE IN THIS FLESH TO GET 

MY CLEAN SLATE AND FRESH START.