Joy Pursuit

I make fantastic

When I’m broken

So what’s in the way

Of my joy pursuit?

I snap my best

When I dig for truth

I’m under no illusion

I fester in the clarity

I just can’t do it

Happily


I found it once

Followed a hunch

Relished a bunch

Lost it at the slightest crunch

Because I lack the skills

It takes

To enjoy with no stakes

So I chase that break

And then I make

The kind of things

People don’t forget

But when I shut that door

Search for more

I’m eaten by my regret


Why didn’t I do it that way?

Was that really the right thing to say?

What possessed me to turn up like that?

I expected a standing ovation

But all’s I got was sat


And sit I did

Flipped my lid

Ruined something

That could’ve been

Rather radical

What I can do’s been did

And once it’s done

It’s shit

You know me

The high’s drop comes quick

It ain’t gradual


That pen’s been dry a while now

Let me incite a vile row

And wet the tip as I exercise

My stardom

You’ll praise, kiss arse

Compliment, and fast

Until I ask

Your fucking pardon?



by Lyric Deep.

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