Hope You Will – Written March 1995 (Aged 20)

Hope You Will

Listening to sounds at night —
hide away;
they will give you a fright.

When we came out of the caves,
stealing from our own past,
we were the cowboys and Indian braves.

I have moulded you
just like clay — but you were okay.
Some things are helping us live day to day.

Really, I hope you are winning,
because you can’t look back;
the end is just the beginning.

Boys and girls run and hide,
just like so many years ago
when I first felt the rain
and I played in the snow.

Give me a comic book hero —
one who is so brave,
so my sanity will be saved.

Dreams can be real,
a way that you can feel,
but they are always so high,
and it can be so hard to climb the hill.

Sometimes you need some hope —
I hope you will.

James Garratt – March 1995

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