Tell Me No More of Enchanted Days

I think, you should know I lied. I'm not the seductress in red, or the intellectual with poses, no, not the girl next door in flower printed dresses, or the alpha woman, flaunting her muscles to the guy in the corner, with the bike under his thighs I think you should know I lied. I'm not the mother of your children, or the cooking master of brews Or the someday famous writer the one you'll say you knew I'm not going to please your mother, by telling her I can't dare I'm not going to get flowers for your sister, you see, I really don't care. I've seen more than you ever can, I know much more than you'll ever know I'm the old lady who laughs at misery, I'm the hag who cackles and crows I'll sit here weather beaten, I'll watch the sun and the rain and the snow As the years pass, I'll grow older and glow You'll never be able to catch me, you'll never know how to make me happy, No, you'll never know But now, I think you sho

The curtain is raised, and the elephant walks in, with the hat lady who slaps his leg, and tickles his trunk, while he performs tricks for the audience, who's drunk She smiles and bows, tonight she's proud, she'll drink and forget about retiring and dancing with wild horses in a barn in town, in a field full of daisies, when the sun goes down, she won't sleep again as usual, tonight she'll frown The clown wants you to laugh, he looks at the kids throwing orange peels on his nose, he loves them still, his job he adores, he's a lover of beauty, but believes in perfection, day after day, he toils and does his jigs in succession As he wipes off the paint, his face falls down, and he doesn't know who he is anymore, maybe he's still just a clown The tarot lady sits at the stall, and asks you to believe in yourself, 'see, that way you'll never fall' Her lover has a mistress, she knows, but she won't recall, 'Your card is the king of wands,&#

It's been 4 months since I last worked. Most people think I'm wasting my life away. Some others think I have a secret inheritance, or else how would I be paying my huge EMIs with no salary? I have to admit some help has come from my family, but mostly when I was working, I saved. And now that I'm not, I'm travelling, eating, buying, doing everything to make up for my lack of ambition. I've worked since I was 19, that's much earlier than most people. I was working in the highest selling daily in the country while studying journalism, and then stuck to them the minute I completed my course. That's 10 years in a stretch, not counting the 6 months I took off to prepare for my GRE and to pursue greener pastures doing Literature. That life, of course, never happened. I've been hard working and dedicated most of my life, so why can't I take time off? I didn't join salsa or driving classes, as I planned; neither did I lose weight. What I did instead was