Wake Up Call

Wake Up Call

A Poem by Melanie Jane Boicourt Shanks
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These are lyrics to a song that I have actually performed on stage at Beetnic's Cafe in Marion, Indiana U.S.A.

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Hello,

this is your wake-up call

and it's time to open your mind.

Hello,

this is your wake-up call

and your soul needs to unwind.

Hello,

this is your wake up call.

Are you having a good time?

Hello,

this is your wake up call

and it's time to open your mind.

 

Don't drown in your sorrow, worrying 'bout tomorrow.

or all the bills you pay. Just make a better day.

Don't live in the past. Just make each moment last.

You can find a way to make a better day.

 

Be the wind. Flow through the life your're in.

You can make it better, if you just believe.

Be the flame. You'll never be the same.

You can make it better if you just believe.

 

Hello,

this is your wake-up call

and it's time to open your mind.

Hello,

this is your wake-up call

and your soul needs to unwind.

Hello,

this is your wake up call.

Are you having a good time?

Hello,

this is your wake up call

and it's time to open your mind.

 

Put yourself in their shoes, even if you might lose.

You can understand their way, and it can make a better day.

We should all of us a try, to be good to all that is alive,

Then we can find a way, to make a better day.

 

Be the earth, and know all that you are worth.

You can make it better, if you just believe.

Be the stream, and play for all the team.

We can make it better, if we just believe.

 

 Hello,

this is your wake up call!

 

 

M.J.S.

© 2013 Melanie Jane Boicourt Shanks


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This is great. Love the use of repetition and it's set out making it interesting and easy to read. Really cheered me up. Thanks!

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Love it!

Posted 12 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

I really liked this ^_^ It's cute and very uplifting, nice work!

Posted 14 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Wow! This is really aswome! Nice one! I loved this peice! ~KA~

Posted 16 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

oh i enjoyed this one so much... i am not one for new years resolutions but i am trying to make 2008 a year for change -- change for the better that is... and this was just the perfect ummm 'wake up call' shall i say...

great writing and enjoyable to read... nicely done :)

Posted 16 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

~~smile~~If Only eh?..I wrote a song a few years back called "Awaken" -similar point to yours. Jesus said "If you would but believe- The Kingdom of heaven is before you...If we all believed at once we would experience what Jesus meant-heaven is here on earth=if we would but believe...Overcoming the laws of gravity;the laws of fear and error this is our challenge here..to live as though we were in heaven..seems improbable due to the cosmic weight fear has tied to our corporeal bodies. Our mission should we accept it? Being in this world yet not of this world..We are all spirit beings having a human experience...fear claims so many, myself included..Write on~~

Posted 16 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Positive.. uplifting :) I'd like to hear the song that these lyrics fit, they cheer me up already .

Posted 16 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

I truly love this. Great job and wonderfully written. I love the words and the flow.

Posted 16 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.


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Melanie Jane Boicourt Shanks
Melanie Jane Boicourt Shanks

Fort Wayne, IN



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I have been writing since I knew how. Before that I would just draw pictures to tell a story. My true passion is poetic lyrics. That is mostly what I am inspired to write. I have been dabbling in othe.. more..

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