The Gift? – Written Friday 25th August 2005 (Aged 30)

The Gift

the gift?
just tying my shoelaces –
seems like success
the talent?
well,
i’m still a mess
genius?
it’s overrated and has false courses
talent burns
but it never learns
it’s just driftwood –
on a dreamers’ sea
it’s the path that we never take
running parallel as it does
with that special kind of heartache
talent burns
with ego as fuel
i am not special
just a farmers trained mule
when i am not thinking straight
it just goes round the bend
then, i find my favourite friend
and then, they help me home again
genius?
what the hell is that?
a road that leads to you
and a road from which you never come back




James Garratt – Friday 25th August 2005


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