Judy Gahagan
Do Something, Stand There
You dream through life pretending you’re awake
crowding it with chimera you invent
while everything you do feels pointless, fake.
That face of yours, pale, loitering in a lake
of moonshine, trying on its masks, is spent.
You dream through life pretending you’re awake.
Why not believe the facts are friendly, shake
off those shrouds of denial, false argument
that everything you do feels pointless, fake.
Open your eyes, touch, listen, smell, partake
of the wide joys of morning, heaven sent
you - who dream life, pretending you’re awake.
I don’t believe you, this pose! For God’s sake
are you too good for the world, and so lament
that everything you do feels pointless, fake?
I guess you have no choice. You think dreams slake
all lust for ceaseless action; you’re intent
on dreaming life, pretending you’re awake
so everything you do feels pointless, fake.
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