I'm Tired!

[Palaver]

I'm Tired!

I'm tired of all the heartaches and the hassles;
Of trying to keep a smile when I feel lost.
I'm tired of trying to build all these air castles;
Of trying to keep my boat from being tossed.

I didn't ask my folks to freaking make me.
One moment of their lust has brought me here.
I've tried to make the best of what life gave me
But every time, I've lost what I held dear.

This isn't in the least what I call living.
Subsisting on what others want to share,
I'd rather be the one behind the giving,
The one who offers others love and care.

It seems the more I try the worse it's getting
And seldom do I find an honest soul
Who really listens without soon forgetting.
They might as well hand me a lump of coal.

There was a time when things were so much better,
However transient then the moments were.
Empty, I can't pull myself together.
Drained of hope, now I'm not really sure

Which way to go or where I will be sleeping
Tomorrow night or in a month from now.
I'm cursed to be a vagabond but keeping,
My face toward the sun and hope somehow

The One who masterminds all of creation,
Will finally make good on His judgment call
And give me back to Earth and her foundation,
Dust to dust, I will be one withal.



© by Naomi Hinshaw-Hersh
9/13/2007
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