Aint No Room to Roam

“Aint No Room to Roam”~ Rev

I lay awake in the stillness

eyes wide to the dark

silence filling the void

between the beats of my heart

Voices doing the wandering

through my crazy dream filled head

imagining a better life

or being someone else instead

mourning the loss of childhood

seeing through the declining days

watching those and the things that I love

go from phase to phase

shaken by the realities

comforted in the wine

pushing my loaded wagon up a hill

doing a dead mans time

shuffling in my step

gravity pulling at my soul

the weight it gets much heavier

and I just get more old

I am a brittle rock

upon which my foundation lay

the roots of my sanity clinging ever so precariously

to the waning hours in the day

and so the sun sets on the tree line

and the shadows consume the home

and I lay awake in the stillness

“Where there ain't no room to roam”