Sleeping Away Your Dreams

Ask not what your alarm clock can do for you...

For so many years
My alarm awoke me so shrill,
With screams of "Get up!"
And "Get going still!"

"Your life is awaiting
And yet you hit me with dread,
Then nuzzle again
That pillow on bed.

Time does not wait while
you loll there and dream.
Have you any idea
What snoozing will bring?

A mound of goals unachieved
And fewer ideas conceived,
An unmoving rock
Under the rushing of seas.

Doomed soul, far from complete
When unwilling to compete.
Your life will be blown,
And be forever unknown.

Don't waste it! Wake up!
You see, the day has begun!"
But my eyes and ears closed
To my alarm as he sung.

See now, my body's wracked
With wrinkles and spots,
As I lay my head down
And remember old thoughts.

Too weak to get up,
Now I know what he meant,
While I shut down for good,
My life far from well spent.