Just Thinking, Written Approx. Late 1993 or January 1994 (Aged 18)

Just Thinking

Leave me be,
and I will live
to see another day.
Give me a little space,
give me something…
get off my case.
You really got me
that time before—
but you are cool
and you are okay,
so make my worldly
dreams today.
I see you,
shuffling down the street;
there are so many people
around you,
a messiah
kissing your feet.
And to think,
I used to be special.
You hang onto telephones,
you dance
at the sexiest clubs—
and then,
then you pick over
the bones,
devouring
what you can.
When you first knew me,
I was a boy,
but I had to act
like a man.
But I am alright.
I have got people
who need me.
I have got
a new dream—
and all those people know
I can’t survive
without them.

James Garratt 1993 / 1994

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