Still Water

Does the cry of the songbird leave you unmoved?
Do things have to be seen for them to be proved?
Does the rising sun bring nothing but dread
Of yet one more day you will count for dead?

Are dreams but a faded childish game?
Is your heart like a lion you cannot tame,
Wildly fighting ev'ry scent and colour
Dumbly ignoring ev'ry shade and odour?

Is your life an elegy without a melody,
An unfortunate sacrifice without a body?
Are you a faustian tragedy,
Have you swapped your Soul for easy money?

Drip by drip, the hourglass spits
All will be over in a blitz
And what will you have left down here,
But disappointment, tears and fear?

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Set sail before your ship sinks
Take wing before comes the storm.

Tim, 19/01/06