An Unpleasant Stay

An Unpleasant Stay

There was a time

When there was no scourge upon my land

Nor the blood of innocents on anyone’s hands

Now the people may be called upon to take a stand,

There was a time

When idiocy wasn’t so sublime

When I could hear the sweetness of a wind chime

When law and order assailed crime,

I was a young man fighting for a place in life

Brave and strong enough to engage in the strife

When I had the love of a wife,

Today we are all not far from the assassin’s knife,

There was a time when nothing seemed to fade away

And I didn’t have a single hair that was gray

I thought I could handle anything come what may

Now it seems fate has come for an unpleasant stay,

Thought that I owned father time

That the arms on the clock were mine

Now my thoughts and wishes aren’t worth a dime

Waiting for the next super nova to shine,

Never realized I was running out of opportunities

Running out of empathetic entities

Short of resonating frequencies

Perhaps, I’m just the wrong species,

The invisible world’s touch

I need it ever so much

I can only speculate as such

There was a time I didn’t need a crutch.