What Do You Want ?
Back when God was a boy
We lived on the earth under great skies
We played in the streets and the building sites
Demarking our territory with wooden planks and bricks
We moulded race tracks for marbles out of mud
Fashioned with our bare hands
Filthy up to our elbows
Extracting mud and meaning from life
Back before money
I would sit in the field where the street ended
And I would create whole worlds out of a pile of sand the builders left behind
And when it got dark I'd carry on
Because it wasn't about light it was about those worlds
And dark was what they got
Back before vanity and a sense of lack
I'd warm up the telly for my dad
Because tellys didn't come on straight away in 1977
But it didn't matter
We were happy because we were using what we had
Not wanting what we hadn't got
Life, then, didn't add up to what you owned and how you looked
Rather, it totalled the sum of what you did and what you sought to achieve
Whole numbers
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gknapton 22 feb 1010
Very powerful statements. Maybe the most powerful statement, though, is the question that is the title. I enjoyed this... Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDelete"And I would create whole worlds out of a pile of sand the builders left behind"
ReplyDeleteThose types of thoughts are great... what is fun is building in adulthood things that last longer than our lifetimes. I thought of sand rivers in school that I would build.. with water spit into the them to fill them. Now instead of spitting water into sand rivers I now build other more powerful and lasting business empires.
I love the thoughts though.
Kindest regards,
Tom Bailey