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Bag of Bones

from High Mileage by t heislen

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This bag of bones that carries me around for now
might be fun, but I’m not sure it’s home
it can slow me down, and hold me back
keep me from where I want to go

This sack of flesh borrowed from the dust
likes to push its agendas on me
it wants what it wants now, to hell with higher thoughts
food and pleasure before a moment’s peace


My earthen vessel doesn’t change the way I do
as I learn more it grays and dims its eyes
it was strongest when I barely knew my way around
now it gets weaker as I grow wise

This temple takes hard work to keep up now
I didn’t used to give it that much thought
the man in the mirror’s not the one in my mind
not all this middle, or the hair I haven’t got


In spite of all its aches I’m sure I’ll miss this frame
when it is dust again and I am light
our fights and triumphs, beauty found and lovers lost
wrapped together will be prize and price

Humility and humor – lessons sometimes harshly taught
by the shape I struggle to keep up
we both could have been kinder, I suppose
but this forced marriage still has seen some love

This bag of bones that carries me around for now
might be fun, but I’m not sure it’s home

© Terry Heislen, BMI

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from High Mileage, released December 6, 2012

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