Kit Kelen #1071 - as if in another life or different

1071
as if in another life
           or different
possible song with an old refrain 


here I am ready or not
the luck so far as spun

then for a last breath
say words on Earth, where else?

and here I live it
dreamt as always

this love we make
from what's to hand

never wake them
say the word

as if on another world
the with without of me of you

grind to the nose
so days chip off

at a certain age you see 
all my work under

then I stretch to fit
the space

thing done was always
time inhabits

snuggle into the was
and some dragged screaming

some days shaky on the pegs
other days the air here's poison

as if otherwise engaged
the hour is minutes come to me

day all sky up
first tear out the truth

sun in my head
for exploding

some days under the microsope
far and over hills away

rises in the morning
as if the given up were ghost

tie me to the mast, keep rowing
I have to hear them sing