Circle Of Age Poem by Daniel McCann

Standing by this mirror
and two people are staring
the two of them are caring.

Success and there is failure
i know i need to succeed
to fail a failure believes.

Keep looking all around me
this circle of destruction
this fire will cause eruption.

Same old man, the same old day
people rushing to their jobs
tick goes the clock no one stops.

I want to! I need to shine!
I cant become that old man
climbing high I know I can.

I see the dreams of glory
the luck I never tasted
bottle of rum am wasted.

Feeling like i cant take this
failing to reach the big stage
I keep circiling this cage.

Become just another man
one that grafts down the cole mines
a bright light but never shines.

No wages from the iron lady
she didnt break what a joke
Maggy she was never broke.

With no lights we couldn't shine
Maggy was ritch made of iron
circle this cage like a lion.

We cant bite, can't even fight
in the middle can't go straight
locked away we try to break.

Let me out. look! let me out
let the lion at thatcha
the workers will not catcha.

She will fall, keep falling
fall into the life we live
she wont give all that we give.

We live in the squared circle
every single day we fight
need to shine give me a light.

You aford guns we lose food
look at the babys small hands
send him off to the Falklands.

Send him off, go send him off
it's a circle in iraq
fight your war we don't come back.

Because it just never ends
life for life enemy soil
money for you from the oil.

For young men a broken mind
circling my broken heart
straight back at the 'bloody' start.

But I will just start again
I just wont be that old man
I just wont be that old man
I wont let it be to late.