Longing for a Change

FredPeyer

Longing for a change

Tired of seeing the same faces

Hearing the same words

Fed up with the daily routine

She hides in her world of dreams

 

Where she is the heroine

Men lying at her feet

Clad in designer silk

She attends the opera

In Paris, London, or Rome

 

Limousines, yachts & private jets

On the beaches in Saint Tropez

Or the slopes at Aspen

She is the center of attention

The light attracting the moths

 

Until she realizes that her dream

Is all smoke and mirrors

Envy, emptiness and lies

That true love and happiness

Can only be found in the

Real world she left behind

  • Author: Alfred Peyer (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 4th, 2018 03:43
  • Category: Reflection
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  • orchidee

    She had everything it seems, then she realised she didn't! Good write Fred. Meanwhile - you got those coconuts yet? How long will ya be up that tree?! heehee.

    • FredPeyer

      Getting up the tree is just to see the future! The coconuts I pick up after they fall down! Thanks so much orchie!

    • Lorna

      It's such a relief when one figures this message out! It reminded me that I used to watch my lovely mother staring out the window as she washed dishes or cooked meals and I knew she wanted desperately to be somewhere else...... Poor little thing.

      • FredPeyer

        Thanks Lorna, some people miss out on real life by living in their dreams. It's kinda cute how you call your mom a 'a poor little thing'.

        • Lorna

          Well I learned from her how not to get bogged down by what other people expect from one....

          • FredPeyer

            Lorna, that is exactly why we are poets! 🙂

          • BRIAN & ANGELA

            Maybe she's weary ~ Ladies do get weary
            Wearin' the same shabby dress
            And when she's weary ~ Kiss her eyes so teary
            Try a little tenderness !

            Thanks FRED ~ all Housewives Daydream ~ I know my Mum does ! It always has been and always will a Man's World. Speaking as an Englishman where we have been ruled by a Queen for over 60 years We have our SECOND Female PM (What was wrong with Hillary ?) and Female Bishops. Thanks for making us think. If REINCARNATION is a choice when I die (2083 = 100 !) I will opt to come back as a WOMAN or a CAT (Miouwwwwww !) Yours BRIAN

            • FredPeyer

              Thanks Brian. As far as Queen and PMs are concerned, you English are ahead of us Americans. But how is it in the business world? Are there a lot of female CEOs?
              Overall I think women are still way off where they should be. At least in my marriage there is equality. We both work, we both raised the kids (I did not breast-feed for obvious reasons! 😉 ), we both cook, we both wash and do the dishes, we both clean house. Period! We are an equal opportunity marriage!

              • BRIAN & ANGELA

                THANKS FRED ~ The Business World is ruled by TESTOSTERONE an fr any LADY having three KIDS in the space of six years and ten another FOUR before she gets back to work does mitigate against promotion to CEO that many Females in the UK give up by the time they are 40 and opt for lower rungs on the Ladder. It\'s the same in EDUCATION ~ apart from Marie Curie (The only person to get two Nobel Prizes in Science) Female Professors of Physics are few and far between ! The Irony is it took Pierre Curie\'s death for them to promote Marie from Pierre\'s Lab Technician to Professor of Physics the first Female Science Professor in the Sorbonne (Paris). In Prague (Which was under Russian Rule) Marie (because she was a Woman) was not even allowed to study Science ! Despite this she still called one of her new ELEMENTS ~ POLONIUM and not FRANCIUM (an Alkali metal which was not discovered and named until 1949 by a Frenchman) There is of course a Transuranic Element called CURIUM ~ a very high honour indeed ! Yours BRIAN

              • kevin browne

                when reality checks in you sure make it obvious what can be lost. top of the berg poem, Fred,

              • FredPeyer

                Thanks Kevin. Sometimes it seems as if the unreal is better than the real, but then we wake up to the truth.

              • FredPeyer

                Thanks so much Cat! Maybe the time is not totally lost and wasted IF it leads to the right conclusion!

              • Goldfinch60

                Good write Fred and very true, the real world is where happiness really is - mind you I do like Opera.

                • FredPeyer

                  Thanks Goldie, Opera, Theater, Movies, Concerts, Musicals, is all OK. That's entertainment. It is the dreams in our minds that can get us into trouble.



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