Life Is Not A Dream
of L.M.M.
you have to live your life
you cannot keep it on a shelf
like shoes in a box
you have to box it out
it's going to end anyway
some people live or attempt to live
like dishes, like crystals and things
they keep in the china closet
like living room furniture
hardly anyone ever allowed
to sit or lounge in them
not even flies allowed
to alight upon them
life's designed to be lived
to be lived in, to be lived out
it runs out anyway
like water down the drain
when the stopper's out
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
8:18 a.m. 26.07.08
of L.M.M.
you have to live your life
you cannot keep it on a shelf
like shoes in a box
you have to box it out
it's going to end anyway
some people live or attempt to live
like dishes, like crystals and things
they keep in the china closet
like living room furniture
hardly anyone ever allowed
to sit or lounge in them
not even flies allowed
to alight upon them
life's designed to be lived
to be lived in, to be lived out
it runs out anyway
like water down the drain
when the stopper's out
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
8:18 a.m. 26.07.08
posted by Obie Quiet at 3:00 AM
2 Comments:
excellent realism in this post..does bring to mind the biblical parable of the talents!
So here i am..taking this lesson and i will ride this life..until the wheels come off!
Esquire, such deep, complete comprehension. You are phenomenal and so funny. I read this response and I laughed so loud. Funny too because you suggest I, here, inspire you to live with the lid off, as if the lid off, was not your usual posture. There is a yellow girl, here at home, a poet like us, getting fatter and fatter, are you sure you're not to blame? Is Ugandan in Bahamian a new type of donut you two have or are inventing?
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