Banging On The Door – Written Tuesday 2nd May 2023 (Aged 48)

Banging On The Door

i was banging on the door
asking to be let in
i climbed on the roof
even though it was made of tin
i pretended to be –
somebody else
i hooked up my dreams
and i thought only of myself
i let myself be taken –
to places i had only dreamed of
i wrote a thesis –
on the idea of push and shove
i completed a marathon
but i never left my mind
i wrote a book
but lost the value of time
and tell me,
tell me when you are twenty years old
what is there to do?
the landscape if full of friends
but of actual life i never actually knew




James Garratt – Tuesday 2nd May 2023


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