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A TASTE OF LIFE WITH MYSELF

Candice James

Copyright 2009

Fighting in the army

And a long way from home

Is sometimes how I feel

When I’m alone with my thoughts.

Battling ghostly battalions

Armed with only a bow and arrow

I am conquered too easily

In the blaze of day

Or the haze of night.

Shipwrecked on an shallow iceburg,

In the middle of a flaming dream

Is how I view the landscape of my life;

Too hot and too cold

And never quite deep enough

Too really get my feet wet.

In the middle of this

Wide awake dream,

Itchycoo Park seems so far away

It becomes unreal,

And I don’t believe

Betty Crocker is making her icing

Quite as creamy and tasty lately.

The chocolate is a little too mild

And the Vanilla is too pepperminty;

Just like a taste of life

With myself.