The Dreaming Boy

By Paul J. Radford

Young boy, let life be your dream

Do not let their venom poison your stream

Give yourself the chance

Be on your way, as the swallows dance

And as you go, in your migrating ballet,

Keep your dreams with you, press play

 

You must never kill your dream, Young boy,

Nobody else shall ever kill your dream, Young boy

 

Young boy, remember the reasons why

Be yourself, let one smile, let one cry

 

Young boy, you shall always be you

Young boy, you shall always be you

You are here as your name,

You shall only play the rules of your own game

Your true success is within,

Not portrayed on your animal skin

 

You must never kill your dream, Old boy,

Nobody else shall ever kill your dream, Old boy

 

Old boy, remember the reasons why

Be yourself, let one smile, let one cry

 

You must never

kill your dream,

Nobody else

shall ever

kill your dream,

 

The View From the Bakerloo

By Paul J. Radford

 

Look at you,

The view from the Bakerloo,

with your futile,

selfish demands,

 

subsequently breeding

your futile and selfish problems.

Itching your flees,

and ruffling your hair,

as your anxiety,

and insecurity,

is all too bare.

 

Tremendously trendy,

Oh, so encouraged are such emotions amongst you humans,

yet these taunts are nothing but that.

merely a biproduct of your vanity.

 

One life, live it, get it over with.

That seems to be your way.

 

I watch, as you beckon your brains for aid,

as you dwell, in your minds parade -

 

fixated upon the past,

disillusioned by the present,

and unprepared for the future.

 

Fools in suits,

politically inept,

morally barren

and temperamentally unfit.

 

The end of your days is your only joys -

but what do you expect from this life

if it is conclusions

to which you excitement deploys?

 

If it wasn't for the engines of vehicles

and the screeching of brakes...

...silence.

 

A Poseidon of simple pleasures

An anguish of diminishing essences

And yet, nevertheless,

a portrait of life itself

 

Look at you,

The view from the Bakerloo.

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