Being a Genie

Being a Genie

I am a Genie tightly trapped inside a green lamp,
A sparkling Sprite full of spirit and soul,
Stuck in a time loop of repeated rapid ringtones full of riddled rhymes,
“I have an appointment” they say,
I reply “Who with?”
“I don’t know some guy!”
I sigh, Oh my God there are more than fifty odd men in this place,
Being so concealing, confusingly, concise is an absolute disgrace!
Could they be more specific?
For me it would be like a holiday in the pacific.

All around me are tourists violently visiting some happy camp,
If I was Santa’s Elf, dressed in green, those mean children disguised as adults would look into their stockings and see coal,
I’m trapped in a hamster’s wheel swiftly supersonic, spiralling in circles listening to the calls and the chimes,
“Can you bring that letter up to me please and put it in my tray?”
I look at the never-ending stairs and silently I pray,
“Oh actually, this is the wrong one. Can you bring me another?”
Back down I go another flight of stairs, to listen to him talk, he’s got legs surely he can walk and go get them himself!
The things we do for a little amount of wealth!
My breath has gone, my face is red,
I feel like a Zombie that’s never been fed,
Being so lazy so idol is surely a crime, he’s being such a pain,
If he could get off his arse and get it himself would be like a holiday for me in Spain.

I’ve got up so early I forgot to shower and wash, a tramp around all these vamps,
I am Dorothy trapped in the emerald city looking for her ruby slippers but my reflection is that of a troll,
Hiding like a hermit under the bridge sliding, sinking in the smothering statistics wanting to climb,
“You need to take 250 calls before your lunch hour”
There words are whips and chains,
Plunging into our backs making us in pain,
Whilst they sit back and relax,
For me something I can only do if I took time off and fly to France,
Oh they rub me up the wrong way!!
If I had a wish, I wish I could be like them one day,
But that wouldn’t happen because I am not made that way,
I would work just as hard but maybe take a holiday in May.