Stop Wishing Me Lucky

Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 3:26 p.m.

b'Stop Wishing\\n\\nme lucky.\\n\\nLest I be completed\\n\\nin something other than\\n\\na circle,\\n\\nI\\u2019ll call out to you.\\n\\nStop getting involved\\n\\nwith my stars.\\n\\nThey aren\\u2019t very friendly. I\\u2019d stop\\n\\nreaching out to them\\n\\nif I were you, they\\u2019re not listening to you.\\n\\nThey\\u2019re never gonna see you\\u2014\\n\\nYour lights are off.\\n\\nYou\\u2019ve gone out of business.\\n\\nYou\\u2019ve let people inside and they\\u2019ve taken\\n\\nEVERYTHING.\\n\\nEven your favorite clock.\\n\\nThe silent one.\\n\\nThat doesn\\u2019t remind you of your\\n\\nmetronome.\\n\\nThe loud one. Without controls.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s nothing like that Light Bulb.\\n\\nLet it go.\\n\\nit\\u2019s only fishing for compliments.\\n\\nIt\\u2019s a one-sided\\n\\nmatinee show you\\u2019ll never see the Ending.\\n\\nYou maybe saw yourself beginning.\\n\\nWhatever it was\\u2014\\n\\nit was not lasting. \\n\\nThat\\u2019s why you Dream\\n\\nin length\\n\\nand width.\\n\\nWhen you\\u2019re too silent,\\n\\npeople yank and stick their thoughts in you.\\n\\nWhen they talk \\u2014\\n\\nI dream of E n d i n g\\n\\nWhenever they walk,\\n\\nthey are just beginning\\n\\nwill they always remain new to this.\\n\\nI\\u2019d wonder\\n\\nif it mattered.\\n\\n\\n--- \\n\\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nakedpoetry/message\\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nakedpoetry/support'