Jim Murray

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Poem de jour

Poem de jour

I wrote this many moons ago way back in high school when I first started to take writing seriously.

NO MORE WASTIN' TIME

No more wastin’ time

No more time to waste

No more chemical dreams

So much reality to taste

No more bangin’ your head
Chasin’ thoughts on an empty page
Fightin’ fantasy wars with yourself
Squanderin’ your usable rage

Forget about your fantasies

Of that Venus in blue jeans

She'll never care about you

Or ever know what true love means
It's time to break the shackles

Of your lust and ego now

Shed the weight that drags you down
Before it does you in somehow

No more wastin’ time

On prayer-filled nights and days
Waitin’ for the new messiah

To appear and show you the way
No more wastin’ time

On dreams that can never come true
Assumin’ one of these fine days

It'll all just happen for you

COPYRIGHT 2023 JIM MURRAY, MURMARKE TING Poetry
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