Sanctuary

Punching a clock, driving in rush hour traffic, the same dull routine every day. What we give up for a few dollars and shrinking benefits eh?

Sanctuary

Dreams please take me home.

This gritty drear day

another one done.

Sanctuary

Where I am at home.

Bring me the comfort

bring me the blue sky

bring me 

Sanctuary.

Chained to a paycheck

lost in the gears

cogs choke the highway

losing my mind again.

Sanctuary

Dreams please take me home

Sanctuary

Lost so in your arms

I want 

Sanctuary.

Just moments to rest

living in these chains

paying with remains.

But I'll be fine again.

Sanctuary

Where I'm not alone

Sanctuary

feel it in my bones

I want

Sanctuary.

Where the wrong turn?

feelings like bridges burned.

I just can't help but

do it all again.

Sanctuary

say I want to live.

Sanctuary

say I want to give.

Sanctuary

Lose me in your arms.

Sanctuary

Sanctuary home

Sanctuary;

I will come;

I will come home to you.

Reviews

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

During work week home does feel like a sanctuary. Awesome poem muse here. Super cool refrain. I ESP like the creative stanza of "chained to a paycheque " and the rest is great too. Kudos.

I'm a newbie here, u may read my poems too.

[Mark]

Thank you for your words. I"m glad you liked my poem.

[Ted Kniffen]

The drudgery of the workplace and the longing to be away from it is captured perfectly here. Well done.

[Southern Cross]

You have poetically expressed the feelings of so many lost in the jungle of the work week. Sanctuary is indeed home and where the heart is for most. Where are all these people that win the lottery? I have never met one.

[Mark]

Where are they indeed? I've read that most who win a big prize are back to where they were financially within a few years. it's not so much the amount of money one has, but what one does with it that brings financial success and security I think.

[Mic]

Never really felt chained to a job, or working, per se. Always made a living with my hands and enjoy anything that keeps them busy.

Like the nice, easy flow to this. Well done.

[Kiari Sabon]

i understand this all 2 well if only there was a way 2 break free from the gears and not lose all you have strived for or there was a simpler way to pick yourself up off the floor when you have lost your job to keep your sanctuary instead of cold and alone with no true home

[Mark]

Failure is a teacher not an evil to be avoided. I've been trying to find my way since my job was eliminated, but I'm a slow learner! Some great books to read are 'Think and Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki, and the ever popular Dale Carnegie "how to win friends and influence people'. I'd also recommend finding a life coach if you are serious about earning income from what you want to do with your life.

[Kiari Sabon]

thanks

[Whitney Kleinhuizen]

This is wonderful writing! It's so interesting because I just recently had a deep conversation with someone about this very type of thing...jobs, taught to go to school so that you secure a job, doing the same thing day in and day out all for a paycheck, etc. And this captured that sort of essence. Great job

[Mark]

Thank you :) Did you get mostly blank stares and silence when you talked about this? I find that most people tune out and don't really hear you when you say stuff like jobs are not secure anymore or try to talk about other ways to gain income without becoming a 'paycheck slave'. LOL

[Whitney Kleinhuizen]

Yes, I actually did! lol I've always been more of a free-spirit, don't fit the mold kind of person. I can't see chaining myself down to the typical 9-5 job, doing something every single day just for 'financial security', whatever that means these days. I'm an artist/creative person and I've been trying to find my own path in life while everyone around me doesn't know how to support that since they are all what you refer to as 'paycheck slaves'. Which by the way, I love that term. ;)

[Mark]

Don't lose that... you are years ahead of me. I was in my 40's and had to lose my job before I understood that.

[Whitney Kleinhuizen]

Better to understand it at some point, regardless of how long it took, than to never understand it at all though. :)

[Mark]

To get lost in the arms of sanctuary, on a musical way... the words dance, as thy thoughts, and in these thoughts, Nice write sir! a rich longing..

E.L.

[Mark]

Thank you Ma'am :)

Always welcome, and a pleasure :)

[Samuel Dickens]

Your misery can be felt and gives greater meaning to the idea that one should choose a job path that they'll enjoy. Claire, below, has a good idea for it making a good song.

[Mark]

Isn't it interesting that you chose 'job path' rather than income or cash flow. I don't mean to pick on you at all Sam, it's endemic in our society. We are taught that 'job' is the definition of financial security and any other path is for the very lucky few and the unlucky who fail or are too lazy to 'get a real job'. In this poem I had hoped to show the futility of 'working for a living'. The world has moved on, the industrial age has ended and the Information Age appears to be on the brink of giving way to some new Age.

Yet we are taught, and we teach our children to get a good education, find a good job, and save money. The strategy that is going to land 90% of us baby boomers totally reliant on the government in our retirement years.