Thursday, August 5, 2021

Swimming against the tide



Look!

Keep looking

Keep Looking for the light

I’m used being an outcast

I’m used being the freak

Things you may feel are helpful

May be hurtful

Hurtful rules you’ve created

Ringleader of the feebleminded

Those are your rules

Rules for keeping the chaos at bay

A conniving mouth

The hatred you have over me

And I am the sick one?

I’m terribly conflicted

Here comes the crocodile tears

Your desire to be cruel to your fellow man

A man such as myself

Me and the others

In my soul I’ve known them always

Their names give me firmness

Look!

Don’t ponder, just do it

Keep looking for the light

It’s an opportunity

An opportunity for all of us to grow

If you hedge I will know

If you trick me I will know

It’s my duty to stay vital

It’s your duty to look for the light

The people looking for the light will survive

With the light, humanity will survive

There is humanity in you

I see it

Humanity to let me be

Be who I really want to be


Dead town

I lie awake  With brooding eyes, I lie awake  I lie awake at night thinking about all the blood spilled in my street alone  Everything they ...