Back to my roots for Dragon Lord

narrative verse in rhyming quatrains,iambic pentameter

 

Back to my roots

 

 The sun is setting on the sea.

 It paints the restless waters red.

I sit alone solitary

and from my vantage point I see

 

 The sky darken to indigo

I sit alone and watch night fall.

I choose to stay although I know

 that duty calls and I should go.

 

Back to the harsh reality

 I have to cope with every day.

The endless noise of the city.

With which I feel no empathy.

 

I must suppose I’ll always be

 the country boy that I once was

But driven by necessity

I left my home reluctantly.

 

There was no future there for me

 No way to earn my daily bread

Just endless grinding poverty.

A prospect which I chose to flee.

 

I was naïve and hopeful then.

I thought the city offered me

A better chance to start again

But sadly I was mistaken.

 

 

The hungry city swallowed me.

I found a job which paid my way.

A porter in a mortuary

The ultimate in irony.

 

I served the dead to stay alive.

But every hour that I was free.

I needed fresh air to survive.

I took my car and I would drive.

 

Out to the hill above the sea

to fill my lungs with fresh clean air.

 And for a little while be free

 from scents and sounds of the city.

 

 

I will retire very soon.

I think that I have earned the right.

 To sit outside my door at noon

or if I choose to watch the moon.

 

I shall go back where I belong

Back to the open countryside.

Although I’m old I am still strong

I have no doubt I’ll get along.

 

Quite happily where I should be

I was not meant for city life.

I‘ll leave the city thankfully.

Retirement will set me free.

 

26/07/2009

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Reviews

[Marie Anzalone]

I envy you, as I sit here listening to the roar of traffic outside my window. There is nothing that can kill the spirit like endless noise. Like you, I am a country girl, who had to move to the urban life to find my calling, and make a living. my refuge is the mountains, sometimes the sea. Where the air is crisp and clean. And the silence is broken by the calls of hawks and seabirds. I wish you well on your retirement- may you enjoy every last second of it! Yes, watching the moon all night will be a perfect way to pass the time!!