Tuesday, December 09, 2008

The bus to tomorrow

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Sit here

With your bag of dreams

The bus to tomorrow has not yet come

If you like

You can begin the walk

If it stops to pick you

Then

Or else

you take longer

With a bag of so much


Don't think of the heat of the burning sun

There is water in the course of the sojourn

The bus to tomorrow has yet to come

In the distance, you should see its form

Its slow chug making you to breathe fast

Does not mean that it moves to meet the beat


Sit here

With your bag of dreams

The bus to tomorrow has not yet come

If you like

you can begin to walk

If it stops to pick you

Then

Or else

you take longer

With a bag of so much


Hahahahahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahaha

I must laugh, the story is riddled with mirth.

You cannot return, The words were flung at you

With your bag of so much, telling you to take your foolish dreams

And leave the simplicity of their unimaginative peace

You spat your goodbye, you refused to cry

You have no time, you must catch your ride

So you hurried and hurried to the station

Where the dust had cloaked with a blanket so brown

Only to find that the bus was no where around


Sit here

With your bag of dreams

The bus to tomorrow is yet to come

If you like

you can begin to walk

If it stops to pick you

Then

Or else

you take longer

With a bag of so much


They can come up to you

And offer you a lift

Faster they will get there

and faster they will split

It is hot I know, but the cool they offer is not so

The ride so fast, it brings vomit up and out

Do you even arrive?

And how do you pay for this ride so fast that they offer?

Me thinks they have seen your bag of dreams

And that is why they know that you need to get somewhere

And that you must have been waiting awhile.


Sit here, joo

With your bag of dreams

The bus to tomorrow has not yet come

If you like

You can begin to walk

If it stops to pick you

Then

Or else

you take longer

With your bag of so much


Sit here

With your bag of dreams


Sit here

I will sit with you

I too, have my bag of dreams

The bus to tomorrow will soon come


Sit here


12 comments:

  1. Oh my....... u have a way with words!

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  2. i love this, i'm gonna save it nd read it ova n ova again, it is so true nd d way u wove words... lovely

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  3. Ms Catwalq does it again- Perfection!

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  4. Anonymous11:13 PM

    But no, you cannot afford to sit and wait!
    for the bus may be late, or it may never come!
    Nice!

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  5. NIIIIICE Cattie...

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  6. u really do have a way with words Madam Catwalq

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  7. Loved this
    you write so beautifully
    but i learnt that you cant afford to wait for a bus thats not coming
    you have to be pro active
    start walking like you said
    grab a taxi, a bicycle, a motorbike anything

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  8. Excellent stuff. I need this as a reminder. Dont wait for the bus, seize the day!

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  9. How u dey my sister?

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  10. Very nice.

    Who would you list as your favorite poets? I kept being reminded of someone...

    Have a Merry Christmas!

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