Love and Irritations

It Didn't Work

Are you tired of the same ol', same ol'?

Are you wishing for a fresh new start?

Those mouthful of meanderings, they weigh so heavy

They are slung over your neck, like ancient art.

Can you throw away that group of thoughts?

Can you clean your abode?

Change the path that you travel

And find a new road?

Divorce yourself from all of the symbols

Purge your memory of "forget me nots"

Lay down your perfection, toss it away

Let your prior life return to the dust

It didn't work.

Farewell to an old and lost friend

God be with ye, I'm on my weekend

Total up the tally of upends

See where that leads

Admit it, those lines you spoke were vile

'Be right with you' or 'in a while'

It's long past due that you needed to turn that dial

And tend to planting a new breed

'Cause it didn't work

It was not good

You tried that routine

That you understood

But now it's a new way

It's a new time

Throw away your umbrella of undulating

Underhanded and old-fashioned brays

That didn't work.