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Reaching For The Rail Tab

by Richard Wright


   
   


                      
I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child
		               
I lay in the dark 'til morning came.
     
It's so unoriginal
      
And I feel it worse at night
  
I know it's not terminal
    
But I'm near half-dead fright
             
And freezing cold.



But sooner than woke up
   
To find it all unchanged
					    
I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends.
         
Cos it's all so familiar
      
As it comes around again
    
The same taste to everything
    
The same unbroken chain
         
That still remains.


   
  


              
With morning I rise,
                  
A dream that won't leave me,
                     
You're sad, naked and pale
           
And you're reaching for the rail


					   
You took a look inside, how could you peel away
                                            
Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well

For all your days.


           
And you're going down
       
As you slip beneath the waves,
      
Won't make a sound
      			    
Won't even leave a trace before you.


   

  

 

				  
I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below
                                       
And it's creeping fear congealed in stone
     
That paves the crazy road.
                               
And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly
                                         
At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with,
                                       
Just take these and you'll really never feel it. 



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