WHY'D YOU GO?

WHY’D YOU GO? Turn back! Turn back! Don’t turn your back on us Heading for the unreality We cannot see We cannot hear How some of us needed you Listening to a gift from the aethers Clutching the album Identifying iconic faces And no more misheard lyrics As words from every song Danced across the back Of that magical Sgt. Pepper sleeve Containing the holy grail of the 60s Black words on red And we wondered WTH are “plasticine porters”? Who needed drugs With your reality becoming ours Through music and glorious words Sitar sounds “Within You Without You” Endless chord of “A Day in the Life” “A Little Help From My Friends” (Why do I always see and hear Joe Cocker there?} And when I finally turned 64 Numberless decades later It became my birthday song But you turned on us I know, you had to do it You all had to be free but Just wish you’d been like the Stones Together until the end I’m sure they’ll be So I stare at this alternative photo As you reveal that it was all a dream But no matter because Your words were truth So very long ago… © 2020 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja) IMAGE: Alternative Sgt. Pepper cover

“Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes”--Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

From Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album