Time

Once again I sit here,
holding on to things bygone.
In the darkness, I wonder,
will there be another dawn?
I look at bitter memories,
promises broken, problems unsolved,
at all the hurt and anger.
And the tears brim over, uncalled.
I look at happier times,
with dancing laughter, and
search for joys now buried
'neath Time's falling sand.
The past slips through my fingers,
for all that I hold on.
It's wise to let go, I know,
and what has passed is gone.
So closes another chapter,
the end of another song.
Eyes raised to the future,
it's time to move along.

Animal

Other people, when they pass
look around and see
A glittering cage of clear glass
and inside it, me.
They see me looking out,
they don't seem to care.
They look away and pretend
they didn't put me there.
My life has changed,
I don't even know why.
But, the tears won't come,
who cares if I cry?
I have forgotten now
what its like to be free.
Glass walls, staring faces,
are now the world for me.
I hope for the touch of death,
and soon enough I'll be
stretched out, lifeless, on a glass floor
for everyone to see.

Test

All day all I did was work,
until i felt I'd go berserk.
Being tested to my limits,
I knew this work i could not shirk.
So now I'll go and do my best,
then put my aching bones to rest.
But I've lost the will to live
and face the rest, and what comes next!