Happens All The Time

Talk becomes cheap when you've heard it all before
The wait feels too long when actions have a zero score
Nobody has a lifetime to waste hanging onto words
From a mouth that's never proved they had any worth
You become weary of the war and you make the decision
That it's either go or it's stay in that same ole position
Keep being the one faulted, the one holding promises
As empty as a holey water can tryna contain its droplets
You wander off, recalling the journey, recounting the stages
But when you turn back, miraculously they've written new pages
I've seen it all before, it happens all the time
Mistakes made on the first try become the last of that crime
After spirits have been ruined, lessons suddenly resonate
The next gets the best of the effort that shoulda been made
Can't argue with life though and the way things unfold
What's meant to be will be, that's what we're constantly told
Doesn't help any when you're left feeling like a pilot project
Clutching desperately to lost time like a slippery object
You begin questioning your importance in the life of that someone
And wonder why change came only after you became the last one

By (c) 2016 Stacey Kell
2016.02.28


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