Poem - Someone Coulda Told Me

Someone coulda told me

That this was the way

It was gonna be.

I thought I could live it through,

I thought I knew.

Someone coulda told me

What I was getting into

I knew it like the back of my hand.

Who was I kidding?

Someone coulda told me,

That this was it.

I thought I recognised it.

I was given a different sight.

Someone coulda told me

I came in wrong

I thought “how could I ever be wrong?”

It was slapped on my face, I could never be right.

Someone coulda told me

What this was all about.

To me it was just monopoly

But then I realised the difference:

It was monopoly without the laughs,

Without the light.

Someone coulda told me,

That this is our cruel fate.

Someone coulda told me

That this was just and only life

-          It was no “biggy”

Some people said

“What you crying about?”

Others said “Told you so”

And one strange, individual came and said

“The only way out is death”

Now I stand, stare and say

“ Someone coulda told me...”

~The Poet~