Another Day

Without love

Another day

Olive dove

Another day

While I waste away

Another day

For minimum pay

My ball and chain

Keeps me company

My endless pain

To be seen by any

My ball and chain

Is an illusion

My ball and chain

Love and confusion

Another day

Without love

Another day

Olive dove

Another day

While I waste away

Another day

For minimum pay

My rose and thorn

The ties I’ve worn

My grape of wrath

Lives in the past

My loves laugh

Cannot be heard

Finger on lips

Not another word

My deaf defiant ears

Not another word

Heart soars with the birds

My rose and thorn

Makes me bleed

Open my eyes

And let me see

All I have missed

I regret not a single kiss

Except the ones that never came

Love and pain

They are the same

Another day

Without love

Another day

Olive dove

Another day

While I waste away

Another day

For minimum pay

My beating heart

My caressing mind

Everyone says in due time

My longing lips

Have been dipped

In the River Styx

Secret tales

Of right and wrong

I don’t know how I can move on

Three thunderbolts

Already cast

There’s no escaping

The grasp of the past

Another day

Without love

Another day

Olive dove

Another day

While I waste away

Another day

The maximum I pay