Fool's Paradise

Heike Kelley
Sep 16, 2016
1 min read

A man can dream Can he not When he can't remember What life means Waking up to the daily trot Of paying bills Still not amounting To a hill of beans Everything he chased Lifetimes of dreams Erased Waking up to the cold hard fact It was never all that That he was told His youth stolen His soul sold

So a man can dream Can he not When he meets the one Who makes him remember What he forgot That a heart of gold Is still worth more Than anything bought in a store That love can only thrive When he tends to it In his daily life Cherishing that What keeps him soft Alas it will be lost Shut off Stored away Hoping for that day When it feels safe To be The man he was born to be