Poetry #5 – Accordion Man

Accordion Man

The music swells and fills

the room

and fills the void

betwixt

what might have been.


 

Are you dreaming Accordion man?

of lyrics from home

and friends

ideals of youth

depleting on alien shore

where loud people

bewilder

strangers to your ways.



Play on Accordion Man.


 

Are you happy accordion man?

relinquishing

youth’s yardstick

surrendering, striving  

against poverty’s scar

foreign daughters

growing

oblivious.




Play on Accordion Man.


The music swells and fills

my heart

and fills the void

betwixt

what might have been.