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The Grind
Wake up you’re just dreaming
Alarm blaring sunrise
Rinse off all your feelings
Settle in for the ride
Monday through Friday
From eight to five
Two or more hours
On interstate sixty nine
Eighty miles an hour
Clock in right on time
Plug into the system
Sacrifice your mind
Calculating equations
Breaching overtime
Forget about feeling
Just feed the bottom line
Five o’clock rolls around
Relief floods through your spine
Power down and unplug
Welcome back to your mind
All work and no play
Every neuron is fried
There’s a stranger in the mirror
Reflecting bloodshot eyes
Dependency awaits
Smoke away all your lies
Grim reality unsheathed
In a long heavy sigh
Keep quiet less they see
The cracks in your smile
Feign interest for now
Don’t hurt his pride
Don’t know how you do it
Without weighing suicide
But that’s our little secret
I know you just hide
I’ll find you in your dreams
I will make you cry
For everyday that you’re enslaved
You’re living a lie
Published 11th Oct 2017
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11th Oct 2017 4:18pm
lovely Nightbird this poem
makes me want to scream
for the confinement & pain you must feel
crowded in by your life & job
so happy you find release in writing..
love Crim
makes me want to scream
for the confinement & pain you must feel
crowded in by your life & job
so happy you find release in writing..
love Crim
11th Oct 2017 5:57pm
Dearest crim thank you for your words, I am so grateful to have found the DU for my release. I am a writer at heart but sadly lost my way for many years... so glad to be back in the flow and to now know beautiful souls such as yourself! This community might be all I need to combat The Grind! Thus far it is proving to be soo so fulfilling, another home <3
14th Oct 2017 12:44pm
I really felt this one..... I've been in this place..... take heart, there is hope for change, in baby steps. DU was one of my first steps towards recognizing what needed to change and how; perhaps it will be one of yours too.
Enjoying your words - haven't written much lately myself but I still love this place and pop in to read from time to time. I look forward to hearing more from you!
Cheers,
k
Enjoying your words - haven't written much lately myself but I still love this place and pop in to read from time to time. I look forward to hearing more from you!
Cheers,
k
15th Oct 2017 4:17am
Thank you for your words of encouragement brokentitanium <3 Funny that you would say such- for 'baby steps' has a light-hearted dark humor aspect for me :) I do find great solace here. Thanks for stopping by!
14th Nov 2017 2:25am
fantastic vent about an unfulfilled existence :
"Grim reality unsheathed
In a long heavy sigh"
Oh boy do I recognise that - Huge big Hugs :-)
"Grim reality unsheathed
In a long heavy sigh"
Oh boy do I recognise that - Huge big Hugs :-)
14th Nov 2017 4:44pm
The fact that you’ve come back to this poem weeks later = HUGS :)
The American Dream... or the American Nightmare? Woe is me (lol) Hopefully the future holds better prospects..
The American Dream... or the American Nightmare? Woe is me (lol) Hopefully the future holds better prospects..
22nd Nov 2017 7:08am
Love this stanza-
"Dependency awaits
Smoke away all your lies
Grim reality unsheathed
In a long heavy sigh
I really liked the end ing of the poem. What a powerful write.
"Dependency awaits
Smoke away all your lies
Grim reality unsheathed
In a long heavy sigh
I really liked the end ing of the poem. What a powerful write.
22nd Nov 2017 5:57pm
That stanza did really capture the weight of this! And the ending was quite a wakeup call to myself.. when the words are just flowing as they were so uninhibited here, bits of insight do tend to peek through :)
