Dear Astraea (I don't think it's working out. Signed: Talus.)

lyrics to a song.

I woke up today, my breath fell like coal.

Felt almost the same as one losing ones soul.

I followed the signs, I heeded the call,

I wasted my time as I fumbled the ball.

 

Hey little girl can you rock and roll?

Tell me, little girl, can you save my soul?

Take me, little girl, here by the hand,

and lead me, little girl, to the promised land?

 

You see me here now, I slouch to your right

to carry your flag through dark spiteful night.

Now your virtue is gone. Was it taken outside?

Was it beat to a pulp? When I last saw it I cried.

 

I was called to the front, both harried and wet.

Thrown hard at the gate, I was broke infinite.

I loved you too hard, you cracked from the strain.

The glue never set, you were never the same.

 

This lust takes ahold, you hate me like fire.

Hands claw at my flesh as you moan and perspire.

This lack of all faith has me tied in a noose,

as your lithe idle hands let your Devil cut loose.

 

We broke from the pack. We aged, and we toiled.

Got fat off the land, for years we were spoilt,

but look at us now both withered and thin.

Well suffered and scarred, you can see through our skin.

 

Hey, little girl, can you rock and roll?

Tell me, little girl, can you save my soul?

Take me, little girl, here by the hand,

and lead me, little girl, to the promised land.

 

Our cause was just, our fight was right.

Our bleeding feet nailed just for spite.

We were given this to use and not to shutter

shall I repeat myself?  have I stuttered?

 

 

Reviews

[meg333]

LOVE IT!!!!! So well-written. I love stuff that rhymes, and you did that without taking the easy way out and rhyming the same old words that people always use. So cool. :-)

[C Wood]

Thank you, Megan. I'm getting better everyday. Can I save this review and show it to my high school creative writing teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson? She always said I'd never be a poet and that I should stick with writing legal contracts.

Grrrr...Wilkinson! I told you one day vengeance would be mine! MINE!