One Rolls Off the Cuff

A semi rhythmic kinda rhyming muse of introspect.

 One Rolls off the Cuff

Funny how 

your dreams somehow

get pushed aside

in place of NOW!

Instead of all the plans you're making

 Life results in times just taking

   Far, far too long

     For it all goes wrong...

And sometimes that's what happens.

Your dreams fade
 'and it all depends 

on what's the next 

  emergency

      or deadline

       incessantly...

The pay day of our choices

 insistently

Harrass us

Tax us

and max-out us

our energies

our thoughts

our goals

It just rots 

  on the vine
 in the sunshine

wasted away with

our talents

our balance

our need for goals
 just goes away

replaced
 by a more chaotic way

of each and every day

the path to nonsense

 shrouded in incense

   on the defense

     and on the fence

about the awful lengthy lag

Chasing yet another drag

chasing a feeling
living a lie
purpose is stealing

wondering why

when did it happen

when did we lose

all of that passion?
all of that booze?

When did my psyche

accept what's my lot?

 all I have wanted

was to give what I've got.

To offer the world

more than they had

fulfilling the needs

of others gone bad

When here I am sitting
inside of my box

Afraid to let go of
 the life on the rocks

Afraid to let in

the lets downs and sorrows

For all they will do 

is taint my tomorrows...

I wanted a Bliss

a peace and a love

I wanted my own

to NOT push or shove

I wanted my life

to turn out as full

But rather its wasted

on yet one more rule

to get away from

to get away with

to find freedom inside of my cell...

to be happy and know it

regardless of Hell

To take my own path,
 live and to tell.

To Climb my own mountain 

foraging on

through forest of worry

above the beyond

Fixated stare

upon a moot Bane

just one more vex 

and it should be plain

Only one more point

and you know I'll get there

just pass the joint,
 pretend it's all fair.

And so I have journeyed

I've gone down that lane

I've seen all the magic

and I've felt the insane

Inside myself

Inside my mind's eye

Inner and Outer

just two different sides

Of the same gosh darn coin

called life.

Be it joy, be it strife.

Can't have one without the other...

and so it is

that life's a b***h.

Then we die.

Then we get to live forever

in paradise?
HUH,

Now there's a switch.

Peace, 

I'm out,
But I'll be back again.

Now smile.

     

Author's Note

meant to be lighthearted in the midst of a heavy toll.