by Kurt Kemp

Created on: August 02, 2009

The Past That Came Apart

He was silently loud and sanely crazy
fiercely patient and perpetually lazy
He was openly quiet and peacefully fuming
laughingly crying as his future was booming

The world was his oyster...he had it all

The wife, kids, a house with a yard

A checking account and credit card

The money and good times it all went too fast

As life often does...and then it's the past

He became angelically evil and trustingly guarded
extraordinarily average, but overly hardened
He was uniquely the same and simply confusing
As He gracefully stumbled I found it amusing

The world was his oyster...he had it all

The wife, kids, a house with a yard

A checking account and credit card

The money and good times it all went too fast

As life often does...and then it's the past

In this frantically calm world he had made his place

Not missing one heartbeat he kept up the pace

Day after day in unending rite

He had thoughts of her all through the night

The world was his oyster...he had it all

The wife, kids, a house with a yard

A checking account and credit card

The money and good times it all went too fast

As life often does...and then it's the past

Now largely smaller and oddly more quite

He is tamely more impatient and apt to riot

Secretly roused by the feelings in his heart

He is celebrating sadly the past that came apart

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