t_c_boyle – blackandwhiteandcolours

You don’t have to be involved.

You believe in nature, don’t you?

I just went for a walk. To clear my head.

It didn’t go well.

I felt my heart thundering.

I wasn’t thinking.

This is going to work, I tell myself

The top of the mountain looms ahead

But it got worse

There is no sound, nothing

Well, he was at the end of all that now

He didn’t know where this was leading

I am ready for anything

We don’t even exist

He was loud, boastful, vain, domineering

I’m a worrier and cynic at heart

But I’m going whether you like it or not

For the longest time he saw nothing at all

Where are you going to go?

Because to be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of the people

It’s all right, baby, it’ll be over soon

I keep telling you, this is nothing

There aren’t many of us left these days

You can never tell what’s going to come down next

Tell me that’s not real

It was a sign, but of what I wasn’t sure

I wanted to dance, wanted joy and release

I began to realize it was going to be a long night

I really hadn’t had time to work out the ramifications

Her voice was honed and hard

You don’t have to put up with that

We were just marking time

The morning was all but gone

I got up with the feeling that the world was a hospitable place

The day had begun peaceably enough

Older than me, but not old

It came to me that I was trespassing

My feelings were complicated

It was a feeling that couldn’t last

Each day of sun might be the last

Every object had a story connected to it

Yes, we are expecting your call

I could have gone through the door

A silent place where no one would hear my cries of outrage or pleas for freedom

They were waiting for me at the end of the line

I couldn’t sleep that night, not a wink

I was quiet a moment

Let me catch my breath

You can’t be serious! Have you gone mad? Leave here?

Better than working, isn’t it?