Deja vu


Here we are again
back on the road to hell

& everything I thought
I knew, has vanished
in the morning mist.

I’m lost from you.

If I could take back
time, dust it off from
sharpened youth

if I could take back
time, I’d live a different
tune.

We’re travellers for
a moment, crossing rivers
long run dry

seeing lands we’ve
always wished for
rainbows washed

from drifting lives,

if I could take back time
meet you at the corner
of my dreams

if I could take back time
walk the path we never trod

if I could take back
time, I’d live a different
truth.

You found me dressed
in sparkles, you sprinkled
me with tears

if I could touch you
for a moment
whisper words

we both believed

if I could take back
time, hold your hand
& kiss your brow

if I could wrap us up
in yesterday capture
love we’ve never known

if I could wish
for just one moment
erase all that I’ve become

if I could take back
time, I’d live a different
truth.

Here we are again
back on the road to
hell

my demons mutter
nightly & the angels
have all left

if I could take back
time dust it off
from sharpened youth

if I could take back time
I’d chose another truth
if I could take back time

I’d stay with you.

Poetry