PUNK POETRY: It Was Over (when it was still going on) by Jude Klassen

It Was Over (when it was still going on)

It’s the blow of emotional journeys

Ten minutes of bliss

That ends in red eyes and paranoia

A dumpster fire

 

Ten minutes of bliss

That still burns low and optimistic

Despite the evidence

That I’m quite unrealistic

 

It’s good to burn

So that you learn

Not to stick it in a flame

Not to ride ‘til it breaks

Not to buy those fakes

 

It was over

When it was still going on 

Someone take these useless feelings

Recycle them, build something sweet

Someone take these useless feelings

Spread them at his feet

 

Throw them in a field

Bricks in a tiny house

Someone take these useless feelings

Take them 

Spread them out

 

It’s good to burn

So that you learn

Not to stick it in the flame

Not to ride ‘til it breaks

Not to buy those fakes

 

It was over

When it was still going on

--Jude Klassen 

Listen to a musical version of this poem sung by Jude Klassen and composed by Asher Ettinger, with TC Folkpunk on guitar.