FOUND POEM by Tom Jensen
Hey all you high rollers...
I got money in the bank
And I'm here all by myself...
I'm thinking, I'm sinking, I sank
She really loved me
It took me two years to be sure
But now she hates me
For everything I've done to her
She had a party at the house at eight o'clock
And at seven thirty I walked out the door
I took a drive to clear my mind
Drown down a street I'd never been down before
She really loved me
But not after this sequence of constant wrong turns
And now she hates me
The fire in her eyes no longer burns
I've got no one to blame but the guy in the mirror
Looking back at me from within this shattered frame
Through these distorted reflections the future seems nearer if not
clearer
But in order to believe in myself everyone else had to suffer some
sort of pain
This is a new world
Can't go back ten years into the past
This is a new world
There never were any guarantees that this would last
This is a new world
Where peace, love and harmony have disappeared
This is a new world
A time of war, a time of panic, a time of fear
The leader of us that you hear on T.V.
Speaks only for himself - he doesn't speak for me
I stopped listening to commercials for candidates back in nineteen
Sixty-three
I stopped believing the lies back in sixty-five
Now look at me...Somehow I'm still alive
Skip ahead to the future and two thousand and eight
As I picked up the torch before it was too late
Now I'm drinking myself into oblivion
Transformed a diamond ring into obsidian
An old friend just walked through the door
But I can't stand to look at her anymore
I'm so far away from where I used to be
Happiness was once my best friend
Now we're no longer allies but enemies
I'm so far removed
From the place I used to call my home
It seems I have deceived myself
I'm here in the same room as my wife
Yet still I feel as if I'm all alone
Today or tomorrow...
Or perhaps ten years to this day
I will tell you to your face
Why I didn't have the strength to stay