I sat atop a wall A wall Stiff with morning dew And not fully awake I just dreamt by Glassy eyes and slouched back With sun filling cold eyes And What choice did I have But to leave my eyebrows raised Questioning the morning hour Taking early commuters into my mind Flanking pedestrians with premature gaze And Laughing a little Forgetting the past but focused on That place
that place that had been overgrown Overgrown with suburban dreams And I myself glassy eyed Could have been unaware But not that day That day I could try to change it But not everything The only thing I could change was myself The rest won't change For It would go against nature It will wither Dissolving into nothing
I wondered If there was a place nearby A peaceful place to die Not that I wanted to die Because I didn't It's only that I wanted to know I wanted to know Be reassured that there is somewhere safe to do so Well that wall felt quite safe to me A peaceful place I suppose Peaceful But poisoned with the ***** work of man And me being glassy eyed I decided that disturbing it would do nothing in my favour
A boy on a red bicycle Passed by me Swooping down the road he couldn't have been more than ten And I remember he held a brown paper bag From the shop up the road And it reminded me of myself For I had lived for that brown paper bag Rushing up to that shop on Saturdays To complete the week with a treat And it made me cry to think about the days end But much more to come I knew And I was sure that It would not be the end of happiness Nor pain Or just the simplicity of Saturday mornings And being oh so glassy eyed I jumped down from the brick wall And resumed my walk back home