Wanted

Settling scores...
Mending fences...
Building bridges...
Forgetting history

Spending all your money on fines and beer...
Peering out of a dirty window to find the moon...
Having nightmares about the door with the missing hinge...
Pretending all questions have answers

Ending each sentence with...
Wishing on fallen stars and hollow icons...
Climbing higher, and higher, and higher...
Only to fall deeper, longer, harder

Fishing for maps, ignoring the GPS...
Staring at the Sun, scouring the shadows...
Standing in line to lose your identity...
Shivering to death while you're at it

Mercury falling
Cold sunshine
Winds that blow you away
As the world passes you by

Writing songs with no music
Reading dead people's diaries
Talking to the ghosts of friends
Getting cheap thrills while the sand runs out

Wanted, a recipe for immortality
Wanted, a love which doesn't fade
Wanted, failure without a price
Wanted, success with no expiry date.....

Wanted, five minutes of your life back
Wanted, a kick on the backside
Wanted, better things to do
Wanted, a ban on bad poetry on the internet

Amen.