After The Ride

After The Ride
by Tricia Pattinson

Loved ones hijack you
Hit the accelerator
On the magic carpet of you
They forget you're a person
Even those rug rats
You allow on your back
Syphoning your life force
Like an ATM is used for cash
Until you've nothing left
Your account is emptied out
Too tired to lift yourself
To experience another sunrise
To realize you choose the journey
You are important to so very many
Wearied and drearied, you fall into sleep
Dream of other possibilities
Taking instead of giving
Restoring your magic to full account
All of it, your love, your life force restored
A magic carpet that wildly soars
Taking instead of giving support
Full of energy to find clear skies
But in a world divested of loved ones
Alone but ever so high
Until you are empty again

Reviews

[pinhead07]

This is beautiful *sigh* It's vivid - so full of life - from start to finish. Captures the sentiments perfectly. Sad, yet real, people try to take one for all one's got, so one tends to try to not get involved in the first place, but then in doing so too, no matter how high one may soar - still is left sort of empty.

[Tricia Pattinson]

Glad you like it. Thank you ever so much for reading and reviewing! :)

[Mary Bosworth]

Ahhhh a sigh from me on this beauty! I love every single word. It is lovely.

[Tricia Pattinson]

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!

[Lauriegirl]

This is so beautiful and descriptive. Great job

[Tricia Pattinson]

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing.

[Patrick]

This resonated so beautifully down deep inside my heart. What a beautiful write

[Tricia Pattinson]

Appreciate you reading and reviewing.

[Blake Fodor]

A very good write. Well done with this one. Thank you very much...

[Tricia Pattinson]

Thank you my friend for reading and reviewing.