After all my past has promised my future
i am ok today to be Eleanor Rigby
a version who steps out of the song
loneliness that has moved to solitude
and a chance to breathe
away from other people’s professional prescriptions
of what i should want and have to have
in order to be young forever,
warm and passionate forever, beautiful
once and forever but in a song
that always laments what wasn’t enough;
what must always be slightly sad
.
Ah, breath,
the singer meant well
as they all do; no harm to let me
take the song a little further,
after all these years
and finally live, let go
of those long past hymns
let go of letting alone
be such a lonely thing
.
© lyw
An American Hero 