Time To Go Home …
By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee/@GeeGranny on Twitter
(I don’t know ‘why’ I wrote this poem … I was listening to Honky Tonk music … it just came to me 🙂 Oh, I don’t drink, nor ‘is my lover with another 🙂
A younger Granny Gee … photo is of me … owned by me … Gloria Faye Brown Bates
A bottle of beer, country music
I have only time … and more time
I may get drunk tonight
My lover is with another
I’m all alone in this honky tonk bar
I’m surrounded by wanna-bes
Wanna take me home … play with me
How do they know
I’m all alone … feeling sad tonight
Just leave me alone
Let me drink this honky tonk beer
I wanna get drunk tonight
You know … do the whole tear in the beer thing
Honky tonk music on the jukebox
I gotta move, gotta dance
Hair swaying, hips playing
To the tune of honky tonk music
My body comes alive
He comes up swaying his hips
Wants to dance with me
I turn my back and let go
It’s my world I’m in
Leave me alone, I just wanna dance
Dance my sorrows away
Eyes closed, body moving to the beat
The world forgotten
I become the music I dance to
Honky tonk music, no more tears in my beer
I’m happy … I am music
I’m in another world
Music stops … I become aware
I’m just a mere person
Who is sad … trying to get drunk
Dance my woes away
A man here … a man there
Trying to pick me up
I’m not here to be picked up
They keep getting in my way
Seeing me as … easy prey
They don’t know I am
The strongest woman they’ve ever met
They won’t ever know … they’ll never have the chance
Get outta my way, I’m going home
I don’t want to get drunk, just wanted to dance
Now … I’m ready to get outta of here
Don’t you follow me
I’m not here for a man
I just wanted to have a love affair
Love affair with the music I love
Now, I’m satisfied
It’s time to go home
Bloody good piece Gloria! 🙂
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
Wow! Thank you, Prenin 🙂 Love, Gloria 🙂