Flamer

from Circles by Jamie Hamilton

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Can’t commute to the flames
With the blind and the dead,
So I’ll queue at the bar with the drunks instead.
I’ve been one half of two,
I’ve been one on my own,
Still not a single square mile on this rock feels like home.

My most creative friends,
Yeah, they’ve all given in.
They work in jobs they hate
To pay for someone else’s rent.
Yet, they look down on me
From high-rise misery:
See-through smiles on the balcony.

I thought about living,
I thought about loving.
I thought for too long now the doors are all shutting.
The people I know
Aren’t the people I knew.
They’re ahead in a race that I’m happy to lose.

The friends I could’ve loved,
Yeah, they’re all growing up.
They build their homes on Earth
While I’m still trying to fly to the sun.
And they look up at me
Through squinted sympathy:
What could’ve been.
What could’ve been.

Had a dream that I died and became adored:
A word sung from the grave – it can weigh so much more.
I woke up,
I’m still here,
I’m still no one.
I’ve found comfort and anger in that.

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from Circles, released April 4, 2014

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