If you don’t stop asking so many questions
I could begin to think you’re a cop
I can’t think up the answers that fast,
Are you the prosecution or what
Do you want answers to your questions
Stop looking into my eyes so deep
What are you trying to see
I’m trying to see the I in you
It may be the same as the I in I
Can’t you see I’m trying to bring something to fruition
And it only takes some more preparation
I’m searching for direction
It’s making a huge impression on me
How many decisions did you say I have to make
No, I’m a grown woman I don’t need permission
I don’t care about your trepidation
I’m searching for liberation
Haven’t found it anywhere
It’s not as clear as it used to be
I thought I was so aware
It isn’t always fair either
Too many discussions
Deliberations on the same old themes
Wars & losses, poverty and gasoline prices
Dresses & designers, writers & artists
Vacations & lives, returning home again
Our time and space is limited,
We’re here on this earth to enjoy life do
What we can, our minds so full of clutter
the glimmer the shimmer outside
draws in to the glow
mostly it’s all show
sometimes we can’t see what’s right in front of us
I couldn’t see that book that’s clearly right
There on the bookshelf where you left it before
after we looked and looked;
neither of us could see that book right there on the shelf
right there on the shelf
looked once then twice we saw nothing
Looking through the glass pane window
Should I should go in or wait out here
Alone in the rain of my life
The drops glistening on my skin
Should I join the crowd inside
Watching diamonds in the rough
Watching is never enough
I’ma go rearrange the universe
give me a moment or two
Extraordinarily well put, Joy. I just read this to my wife, and she thought it was great. Pity she didn't realise it was a message to her from me, written by you. You're pretty darned special, y'know?
ReplyDeleteYes, I'd second Will on that one. Especially that word 'right' which terminates a line. It seems to have double meaning there and I think you wittingly put it there.
ReplyDeleteAn exceptional piece. I so loved it. Free verse, I am so fascinated by it, and you are so good at it.
And hasn't that 'moment or two' been the past, is the present and will ever be the morrow?
ReplyDelete"Alone in the rain of my life." Could I steal that for a song title sometime?
ReplyDeleteI just love where your mind takes me, Joy and am so thankful I found your blog.
joy, I like the way his walks away in the last line with so much gusto, free verse at it's best, no po-mo about it.
ReplyDeleteJoy, this story is one that many of us can recognize or relate to ourselves. I interpret it as the 'beginning of change' or the starting point on a very long road that could lead anywhere...to new places not yet thought of.
ReplyDelete'Alone in the rain of my life
The drops glistening on my skin
Should I join the crowd inside
Watching diamonds in the rough
Watching is never enough
I’ma go rearrange the universe
give me a moment or two'
That decisive moment which can make all the difference.