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Round and round

Coming up empty In the land of plenty Never ending days And  tortured nights Struggling just to struggle No chance in the fight Round and round she goes; Where she stops . . . Jaded now but once so real, She’s always working, making deals With life and fate, her frenemies, Reaching beyond merely what she sees. Coming up empty In the land of plenty Gruelling , thankless days And long, sleepless nights; Struggling just to struggle No chance in the fight; Round and round she goes… Orchestral music and greasy fries Grasping at nothing, too late to realize The twin deniers fate and life Throw the game, create the strife; Round and round she goes… One bill paid but two past due; Looking always for one lost shoe Life promises, but then fate steps in Blocking all her attempts for just one win; Round and round she goes… Coming up empty In the land of plenty; Bored, apathetic days And pain filled nights Stru...
-Imitation of Life- One of my all time favorite movies, Imitation of Life (1959) with Lana Turner as a single mom who makes it big. Despite some very cliche racial commentaries, the underlying themes of justice and love prevail. The orginal 1934 version with Claudette Colbert is also good but romantices more. Today, the movie plays foremost in my mind, especially Delilah's funeral when her hateful daughter Sarah Jane bursts into the procession crying and claiming love her deceased mohter. Somedays, it seems like no matter how much I love my daughter, no matter how much I pray for her, she has ideas in her mind about what the world is and how she interacts with it so completely opposite from my own.