Waking up this morning

Waking up this morning

I let the sun shine.

I felt its light glowing

In the dark side of mine.

Walking up the street

I heard a car screech.

The driver and I greet

And I thanked him for

I needn’t beseech.

Getting on the train,

The kids were smiling

In content.

The amusement park is in town,

Their parents have a place

To vent.

I decided not to go to work

I was happy enough as it was.

Letting my devi-ly voice poke

The leading role in cause;

My willingness to be outright,

My willingness to start over again,

My willingness to become a knight.

When I decided to let my dark side shine

It shone with glory and vow.

My dark side is too pretty to hide,

My light side is not pretty at all.

All the blue mood within my soul

inhabits my real course -

while my strangest dreams

could never be ignored,

for they are truly blue,

but of a blue-colour sky

Whereas my core self-

this one, pale as hell

reflects the dull life as it is

a bland mixture of un-love,

delusion, a will to quell.

I needn’t be dominated by it

By reality, by life as it is

I shall be flooded with despair,

Despair for a life of dreams,

For the movie inside my head,

For the singing birds and bees

For the love that shall not be

True, but it is for me

It is for my melted, warm heart

It is true when it makes

My day shine,

It is true when gets me

Out of bed,

It takes me places

I would’ve never seen.

A truly beautiful life,

That turns me into

Something more

Of a person who eats

And sleeps,

And urges, and flees

And wants too badly

What doesn’t exist.

Let it exist inside yourself

There’s the place where

it differs to you

It’s the place

where it differs to me

Where so many

hopes and fears

Slowly cook and brew. 

Pat Perry, "Good Morning"