Can't

[JOsie]

when someone says you can't
you do...
when someone says you can
you do...
when someone says you will
you do...
when someone says you won't
you do...
when someone says you try too hard
you stop trying...
when someone says you are nothing
you stop trying...
when someone says you couldn't do any better
you stop trying...
when someone slips, when someone fails, when someone tries but lands on their face, when someone openly admits they were wrong and that they're sorry...
you laugh...
when someone beats their knuckles bloody trying not to go along with one stupid idea after another, dragging their feet because they don't want to join the queue everyone else is in, crying their fucking eyes out because someone won't listen to what they have to say...
you say "don't be such a baby"
when everything that can be done doesn't even register in your mind, when every word that is said seems to go straight through your head, when everything anyone ever put their name to carries that same familiar stench you got used to living on the farm...
you blink
and you miss it
and it will never come again
and it's a waste of everyones time...

thankyou for your time.

[Jaz Delorean]

Wow josie, i've never seen you write in a style like that before, i love it.
it's amazing, it's almost like, i got a picture of the person speaking standing in a room with almost no lights on, muttering it to themselves, with their back to me... apart from the last line.
thanks for sharing that.

[JOsie]

:)thankyou both...

[roly]

love it....wow your work always blows me away....*blows away* but yeh...wow! It's so cinematic...can imagine it as a kinda direct address to a camera...the beginning of a trainspotting-esque film..it has that kinda gritty, but true feeling to it...Excellent!
Roly.xxx