The Seven Stanza Serenade

The women in front of me in the line, sipping on her wine

I wasn’t there; I just heard it through the grapevine

          I shouldn’t pay attention to these rumors I hear

And they do not speak, they talk with their hands

Which they stick in their ears, which they bury in the sand

I yell at them, but they don’t respond

My friends die, and yet I stay alive

They enjoy Heaven, but they didn’t like the drive

I’m just happy that they did arrive

I’m rifling through pockets of my mind

Besides some lint and change, there’s nothing that I find

Wonder where I lost all that

I played Icarus, my second favourite drum

I was playing hot, as if closely to the sun

The damage can’t be undone

Inside the old box, there lays my pa

          He ran and he ran, but got snagged by the law

They hung him, and found him guilty too

I am the stop sign, yet they run right by me

I stop one of them, and being to plead

“Sir, can you please watch your speed?”