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Give me a Reason

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

I need a reason
To be ready for the day
Other than a paycheck…

I need some headway
to figure out
What I’m out to do

I need the fire
The passion to burn
The passion to move…
     The passion to feel…
         The passion to do…

Give me a reason
to really want to move on
to stay in motion

I feel so lost
like a boat
w/o a compass in the ocean

Help me find it
the light inside me
to make me happy
  to make me happy
    to make me happy…

I see the others
Who have found their
 niche to claim

I’m happy for them
but I seem to
Not feel the same

I need to find it
That very something
The thing to want…
    the thing to need…
       the thing to cling to…

Am I just drifting
Hope to be
not cast aside?

I tire of searching
through the world
far and wide

My world’s a bubble
I need a place
Somewhere to breathe
   somewhere to stretch
     somewhere to think…

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Tough on Top

Monday, June 21st, 2010

It must be tough to be on top,
To have no one by your side,
People looking up to you
Your coattails they hope to ride.

It must be lonely on that shelf
collecting dust as you gain age.
You might say and do as you please
But you fear to lose your wage.

Those cameras must be hot
Those lights must be too bright
Those fans must bust your ear–drums
They all might love your work
You may laud their applause, but
Who’s under whose…thumbs

It must be tough to be on top,
To have them all scream out your name,
Just one touch could make them senseless
Your skill puts them to shame.

Watch them from your pedestal
They watch you from the crowds
They watch you fly and fall
That crowd is like an ocean
Lapping up to touch your feet
You hope that you don’t drown

You hope that you don’t drown

It must be tough to be on top,
I can’t imagine why,
They want to be like you
They just don’t know your pride.

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This is the work of me, Mercuryami—slightly unfinished…*shrug*

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