What did you do with the rest of your yesterday?
Did it turn out just the way
You wanted it when you flaunted it
without a word
You just turned and burned all bridges
From the arch to the banks
Did they stand at your flanks and
drive you once more into the breach?
Did you reach a conclusion off your own steam
in a dream that seemed so real at the time?
Did you find the way you move has changed,
your steps and nods are now so strange
that friends don't know you on the street?
Do you point your feet at a new angle
while you try to untangle the strangling grip
of the strip around your gut that pulled and cut
you almost in two?
Did you stay true to who you deeply used to be
when you were free to see the holes in the road?
Did you fold under the pressure to reassure those around you that
you were really okay?
Did you stay away so they wouldn't know how slowly
you dragged you feet to your seat under the strip lights
and how much you struggled to fight the lethargy
with feigned energy and a smile
all the while dying a little inside with every handset clicked down?
Did you?
Or did you quickly do the math and change your path,
throwing down one future of the living dead for something
new instead?
Did you change your head and heart through and through?
Now I barely recognise you :)
