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The long and the short

The Long and Short Of it all, What time is spent In places where you try to earn Try to live Try to make rent I’ve learned These Irksome thoughts live rent free In my mind I hope they too have to spend Some hard earned time One bath, one bed The simple place to lay one’s head To be led To believe one must work Until they’re dead Spaces between filled with life Filled with want, love and strife A small hallway that leads to a nook An electric range, a fridge with food to cook This closet barely fits The clothes I need to wear And those I dont On the floor laid bare Twelve months go far too fast None of these places are meant to last I will fill them with the me That must And watch As my lease goes past This one has a…


The Long and Short

Of it all,
What time is spent
In places where you try to earn
Try to live
Try to make rent

I’ve learned
These Irksome thoughts live rent free
In my mind
I hope they too have to spend
Some hard earned time

One bath, one bed
The simple place to lay one’s head

To be led
To believe one must work
Until they’re dead

Spaces between filled with life
Filled with want, love and strife
A small hallway that leads to a nook
An electric range, a fridge with food to cook

This closet barely fits
The clothes I need to wear
And those I dont
On the floor laid bare

Twelve months go far too fast
None of these places are meant to last
I will fill them with the me
That must
And watch
As my lease goes past

This one has a claw foot tub
This one has a view

That one was too much
Could I move in with you?

The brief moments that aren’t bought
Sold
Or paid for

That is where I live
Not in this unadorned box I hoped to find
That I Prayed for

The long work
And the short life

Is that what we were made for?

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