Quality Slave

I try to look at you but

My eyes fall short

 

I try to look up at your glory

But I can’t raise my eyes

Beyond the shadows

Of your being

 

Hot tears gush

Longing thwarted

 

Yeah

We worked the

Quality mines

Got the labels all right

Stood dumb struck

At the beauty of it

Wanted to weep and scream

For joy

Wanted to tell the world

This is it! 

This is what we’ve been looking for…

Wanted to invite everyone

To the eternal party

 

But it aint all there now

Init?

 

It maybe it’s a lost quest

For me

It maybe that I will always be

Trapped in a MTV sun

 

I can hear my dream churners chug

Never give up

Ever

 

I can hear the motivational positivists

Spout

Their line of inspire pumps

 

I’ve heard it all

Been there

Done it all

 

But you

Oh you!

 

**********

 

The ripple from your smile

Cascades over

My bowed head

 

And I can read your answer in the shifting sand piles that ply the ocean shore

And amongst the quiet of the waves

Crashing

I find my peace

Thank you