Life On Hold
- Jeff Jackson
- Sep 2, 2024
- 1 min read
Life on Hold
© 2017 Jeff Jackson
When did we become ghosts?
Seconds after their toast?
Praises lodged in their throats?
Cancer undiagnosed
When did they say goodbye?
Staring up at the sky
While we looked in their eyes
They looked past us and cried
Time will make us old
As we fall between folds
Of our bed sheet souls with our
Life on hold
Our life on hold
We believe in the sun
Even when it won’t shine
We believed in your love
Even when you weren’t kind
We believe in the Lord
Even when there’s silence
We believe in a peace
Even in this violence
Will we be paroled
While our story’s told
Of our buried gold and our
Life on hold
Our life on hold
Rake the mud this way and that
It’ll still be mud
While we sit here and brood
We could light the fuse of our blood
When it all unfolds
Pushed to our thresholds
We release control of our
Life on hold
Our life on hold
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