Tiredness Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

Tiredness

Copyright Robert Fullarton 2013

The raising of the world

Takes all the weight

And time of tomorrow

For the offspring of the worn

The belt around the neck

Worn to breaking point

The staff of prophets shattered

The feet of beggars blistered

The sighs of the heavy goers

To the heavy world

Breathe out

Onto mountains

Beyond clear sights

And impressions

Fancy boutique windows

Shatter

Like human glass

A million labourers

In the thimble city

Spin

In dregs of pleasure

And dragging humour

Life costs the kingdom

And the soul

Takes the day,

Plants the night

And supplants

The happy heart

Once clean feet

Are now bruised and dirty

For unseen courage

In desperate situations

Men pitted against life

Life pitted against death

Desperation in the den of desperation

The scrolls on our heart

The good dwell in the dead sea

The wicked in the drooping seventh heaven

They call the city

Helen clutches garments by the bed,

Penguins with fat wallets

Scoff by the glowing dens of predators

Luminous taverns with mutilated people

Grabbing everything in a desperate hunger

Tentacles,

Shackles

Drug crazed opiate fiends,

The alleys full of the thick and thin

The bars full of the fat and smarmy bodies

Paradise in the minds of unknown men

Beyond the cities stretching limits

To tumbling hills

Silent valleys

Primordial forests,

Where virginal creations

Lie embedded in the minds

Of unknown men

Unknown life- what are thou?

God- Where art thou?

Says the priest in the manacle of the city

For the heart goes heavy

And wears thin

Where idealism wears out

Where light is dying on distant stars

And in love in human hearts

In the immediate and the abstract

The tired return to sleeping worlds again and again

To sleep and begin the weary day once more

Oh my dreams have flown

Away from me again

The summer flock

Evaporated!

The flotsam and Jetsam

Of the turbulent seas

Of human life

She loves me not

She loves me not

This is only tiredness

Again and again

Tiredness,

Weariness

Again and again

A wilderness

Crying out into a city

Unheard and misunderstood- again