Wrong sense of time

justam
justam Posts: 21,415
edited July 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
When you've done hard time
for a long time
you can manage a year or two
in your sleep,
or standing on your head,
while humming a tune & telling a joke
'cuz you know the end is coming
you can smell it
you can almost touch it
and that's where your heart is
"a few more years to freedom"
becomes a bed-time chant
and if no one is waiting
that's okay
but this odd sense of time
is apparent when someone on the outside
needs you to get moving
um, like, now...
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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    The type of things your friends tend to notice--a detached distractedness that's hard to snap out of and sometimes even hard to explain. You're good at putting those types of feelings into words, {{justam}}. :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Being Enlightened wrote:
    The type of things your friends tend to notice--a detached distractedness that's hard to snap out of and sometimes even hard to explain. You're good at putting those types of feelings into words, {{justam}}. :)

    Thanks BE. :)
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