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Post by michaelgallatin on Nov 10, 2011 14:09:03 GMT -5
Once I felt happy, at one time I was free, in the past I thought that I knew who was me.
Now I feel tied down, for the most part I'm trapped, deep down inside I think my will has been sapped.
Some things turned out good though some came out bad and I know that I shouldn't spend my time being sad.
I can see I've got stuff I should be thankful for, wife, children and friends and I've even got more.
There's a home and belongings so I should feel impressed but somehow I spend days feeling quite damn depressed.
I can see all around me the many treasures I've got and I want to be happy yet at times I'm not.
Those times I feel shackled by my family and my home when I want just to wander, all I want is to roam.
What I wish is to go where there's Sun without rain, a place faraway that will refresh my brain.
And I'd take them all with me if I could just go but I'm bogged down by life and that's something I know.
Michael "Living With Change" Gallatin
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Post by rustybroadspear on Nov 12, 2011 5:25:56 GMT -5
alot of people must feel the same - as if something is missing and just out of reach .... maybe life in the stone, bronze, iron age is still in our genes/blood ........ lives totally in tune with nature and the stars ..............
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Post by michaelgallatin on Nov 12, 2011 9:33:22 GMT -5
I think it's a combination of things. Certainly there's that old wish to wander and see new places. For me though too I'm not entirely happy with how my life turned out so there's also a silly dream to get away. Maybe even to make a new start somewhere else though at 63 that's unlikely. And on a more physical level a bad "contractor" messed up the inside of my home years ago and somehow my wife and I have never completely put it right again. So there's that daily reminder that I'm living in a strange, rather uncomfortable, place. Plus my "kids" are gone and I'm out of work right now. Excuse the long-winded reply please. Glad you enjoyed this my friend! Take care, Mike
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Post by purplespirit on Nov 13, 2011 13:00:29 GMT -5
Indeed I agree with Rusty, for I have felt similar in a bit younger years and I then sometimes said that I would like to "put my family in a freezer for a few weeks and discover the world meanwhile"... A few of these dreams have even come true then and my family supported me to it. Your poem for sure is so real and lovely and I enjoyed it, at the same time wishing you a few parts of your dreams eventually to become real and some peace filling your heart. I know you appreciate your life as it is. Wishing you well! Ulla xx
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Post by michaelgallatin on Nov 14, 2011 12:51:12 GMT -5
Thank you so much my friend not only for enjoying the poem but for the good thoughts. I wish you and yours the best as well and I'm glad that you seem such a happy and "together" person. I don't always wish to get away, it's just that there's a lot I don't like about how things turned out. As much as I wish at times to go off on my own, I also wish many times just to go away somewhere peaceful and pretty with Joanne or even with my whole family if that was possible. Take care, Mike
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