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Hopeless Dreamer
I was once asked, “What do you plan to do with your life?”
I replied, “I plan to settle down with a child and a wife.”
It has been a few years since then…
I thought about it some more
Sitting on this cold concrete floor
That I must be dreaming for a wish that would come true
The more that I dream about it, the more I become blue
Sitting in the ‘unemployment line’
Leaving me neither food nor water to dine
I look through the nearby trash.
I look up seeing upper class eating as they sit on their a**
I watch them eat and I sigh
Letting time slowly waste on by
As I lay here waiting to die…
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