like a path to take - spoken poetry

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Well, I’ve got a lease on it, were I to find the link,

Were I to find someone, somebody to trust aches.

Someone to tear my mind, I’d rather ease my mind

In stuff like loneliness and alcohol, or worse…

I’d rather watch it all from outside and keep the pain inside

Write down my emotional doubts and clear my sight in complaining

Ask for nothing but anger to tease my mind

The trail of tears must bring something more sincere about

This is all I own : a heart_ a scar_ a soul _

And not even the least hope for a better day to come

After all I wonder to whom I owe such a future of restless woe

Long forgotten, not yet or never met the one

And doubts hang on to me like the pain that won’t go

I can run, I can spring - I’ll take it along

I try not to be depressed, nor different from the folks

But when I got someone on my side I’d rather be gone

And after all I’ve got nothing here to hold on to

My past was foreign country, my future is beyond

I’ve got it on my mind ; like a path I’ve got to find

Days drag on so fast and that’s an inner sign

Psycho-physically and logically lost

Is there anything more attractive than a negative approach ?

A life so blurred, a soul so wrecked,

But the fire keeps burning like water spreading on a deck

And yet I got a lease on it, and I wonder where I’d go

Every time I get close to someone, I feel something’s gone

And it returns anytime she teases me and puts me down

I know there’s so much to be found

February, 21st 2000.

©2000 Matt Oehler