Romeo on a Window Ledge (McLeod)

Nothing's changed.
The telephone stills squats silently.
The cinema still sucks.
Reality (on board a ship fools
Immortalised on film) sails by.
Romeo on a window ledge with a noose wrapped round his neck.

Fun to try
a ribena-sweetened marriage.
I cast an eye at the sky,
A sunset screams goodbye in my face.
Reality is where we take up arms on the carpeted battlefield, life.
It's the darkest night of my entire life.

I'll go to town, get away.
Feel the sun on a winter's day.
I'll raise the knife above my head
I'm kicking all the memories from out of my bed.
It's like I said, so long ago
You don't drive at ninety when there's nowhere to go
So have a laugh, have a smile
Your life comes approaching mile by mile.

(© McLeod, 2000)