Turn The Corner Poem by Barry Middleton

I want to turn the corner
I can't go back in time
I've pondered every memory
and put them down in rhyme

I need a new horizon
but don't know where to look
I may give up on song
and study one last book

such it is with age
with strength and passion spent
the oldest melodies
must finally relent

only old men know
the dark and lonely road
no one to hear their jokes
or share the heavy load

I want to turn the corner
and see a different view
mirages in the desert
or anything that's new

although my dreams are locked
within a prison cell
I'd like a glimpse of heaven
I've done my time in hell