If you told me then
We’d now be coughing blood
You know Doc, I wouldn’t change a thing.
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If you told me then
We’d now be coughing blood
You know Doc, I wouldn’t change a thing.
With a white satin napkin
He wiped away his pride
That’s it my Lord, my Savior
What more have I to hide?
The pills induced his coma
His blood ran thin with wine
His revelation managed
By the nurse’s over-time
Look me in my heartache
And tell me there’s a cure
When butterflies were band-aids
Where fact and fiction blur
Speak to me in virtues
The one’s I’m pickled for
When only field’s were diamonds
And playgrounds left you sore
Hold me in your sorrow
With hands so soft and pure
When bedtime meant tomorrow
Was absolutely sure
Hear me as the willows
Send shivers down your spine
When fluff was just for pillows
Where wonder’s in the pine
Sense me in my mourning
For those yet to be fed
When fear meant it was pouring
Where Rover was still red
Send prayers if you still got em
Though mine have long since fled
This well’s filled from the bottom
Where sailboats are led
Fill me with whiskey,
I’ll spill some truth.
Fill me with time and no one,
and I have filled pages with reason.
Reason enough to explain the lies
I tried to convince myself true.
My most honest fiction, in truth
is all that I can do.
Not
every
person
is meant
to
stay
in your life
forever,
but
that doesn’t mean
you can’t tell
their
story,
it doesn’t mean
they’re
not
a part of yours,
so be a dear
and change a name or two,
just don’t
spoil
the end —
they’ll know if you do.
It’s ironic, really.
The way I wanted to do it,
wasn’t the way to do it,
until it was the way to do it.
And by that time,
I was already checked out.
My psyche in jump cuts like Breathless.
Plugging away in the same…old…fashion,
as those before me.
My movements were those of a machine.
Until it was the way to do it.
That which once wasn’t the way to do it.
The way that I’d wanted to do it in the first place.
If you’re confused.
That’s good.
Because I was too.
When it occurred to me one day.
The irony.
How kings will be kings no matter the king.
Lucky for me,
I knew this.
I also knew this.
You can dress the kid in the rags of a jester, but don’t expect his tricks to be any good!