Another Trip

So we go around again and again
How can I live when I feel there is no end
Round and round 
Another one goes and another even faster
Faster and faster
There is just no more excitement no more joy in it
We go around again so we must cheer and laugh
We pass around presents to make the time pass
We look forward to more gifts instead of the next day
As I feel my life rushing away
How can I live when I feel I will live endlessly
Around and around again and again
There is no end
There is no money
There are no birthdays
No Christmas
No New Years
There is no time
We all made it up to just watch it go by
To maybe bring joy to our sad short life's
We watch trees grow and grow and never die till you take an axe and decide end its life
We make monkey bars to climb on
And drinks to drink 
We make devices to connect us but not to one another
To the web and to others we would never have met without it
We text we laugh we cry we yell 
But with new devices comes new realisations that this world can be cruel not just to others but to our selves
And another and another and another with no meaning we talk and talk without speaking and we play and play without getting off the couch
I could cry and cry without a soul who'd hear
The only thing that's real is the earth the trees and plants that grow and grow without a sense of time just living
Or the bird that sings out your window for just the reason of loving each other 
Another and another go out the window just like that
But the world keeps on spinning no matter when no matter how
Find a reason to look forward to tomorrow not when the next time you're getting presents is
Find nature find love in each other 
I cant wait for Another and another trip around the sun

~Cheryl Mason (2017)