This is Life, and Nothing More

Stephanie Daich

Once upon a daylight sadden,

While I cried, my mind gone madden,

Over a life that used to be.

Now a forgotten bore-

While I nodded, almost dreaming

Suddenly there came a screaming,

From a tiny human scheming,

Screaming outside my door.

"Tis the baby," I muttered,

"Scheming behind my bedroom door.

Only this, and nothing more.

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And the cherub babe so needy, 

Steals my time, oh how greedy. 

Change her-hold her, oh fantastic.

Or she'll scream out like before;

So my life stops, to still the welling,

I wanna scream. I feel like yelling.

All this noise, my head is swelling. 

Dropping to my bedroom floor. 

When will she sleep? There is no telling.

I want my life from before. 

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But this is life, and nothing more.

But this is life, and nothing more.