Age Of Aquarius

Angst I've been carrying for too long

You told me, 

Explaining 

The world was headed for 

A new age. 

A turning point.

A change with the dawn like

Some pathetic profit, a man

Who knew better

As we smoked cigarettes 

On the balcony. 

But, I just didn’t understand.

You see, a barely legal mind

Can only go so far.

Where you saw the shift, at your age,

I saw the stars,

Wishing 

I was far up and away.

Never thinking, 

Since then, 

I’d have trouble for years

Star-gazing, believing,

There were good men or, 

I could ever 

Be the woman I dreamed 

To be. 

Before it all

I stood so tall,

I didn’t know a thing. 

A clean slate, only a girl

You called me.

So I played the game, 

Pawning innocence 

For experience

And lost, not to you

But to dumb pride. 

Paying the price

Spending each day

Washing your touch from my skin.

Chasing your voice

From my ears

The only way I knew best:

Alone.

Because thats what strong women do. 

And since loneliness can be kind

Turning memories

Into far off shadows,

Into something like poems.

Theres a dawning

Of a new age

As I leave the girl I was behind.

And now the stars 

Have gone right from my eyes

Into that blank night sky.