Can'T Win Them All
The day goes on and I encounter more
Feelings, a hurricane of emotions
Quaking through this vessel
Threatening to toss over in the winds
Capsize in a sea of invalids
Negating my validity, testing my fidelity
But truthfully
I can not always put a smile on your face
Nor can you put one on mine
Feel free to try
Suspicions lure as more trips are taken
Talks are talked and walks are walked
Beneath your exuberance lies a bubbling
Of insecurity I’m not mistaken
For it is seen many times over
The façade of the strong willed
When broken down and torn apart
The innards apparent
For you are ill
I call to you and you play me down
Turn your head and shun me off
Why?
We are all made different so what is it
That abides in me that makes you veer
Away from me even in times of glee
Your eyes have caused you to witness pain
Deceit and lies in all the rain
From that point on should one take that step
You look down your nose
Peer at them from head to toe
Turn your head and off you go
Never to be heard nor seen again
All I wanted was to be a friend
But because you pre-judged me
The thing you needed you lost in me
‘Til maybe one day might be brought out
A fisher of men amongst the drought
‘twasn’t meant for all to achieve
But in the end we must all believe
That the goodness shall shine through
Can’t win them all but
One at a time I will leave a mark
Little at first, something small
A seed is planted and it takes root
But my sadness has shown
My spirit is true
Plagued and burdened every aching day
Of something different
Something magnificent
Respect a privilege
A privilege to respect
But yet
Everyone requires to be respected
But none has paid that price, neglected
That it is to attain that level
But upon the precipice shall I finally find
Rejuvenation
During the death of a nation
I tried to save them, I tried to love them
I really wanted to see better of them
But now I cry as I lament
And sing my songs of sacrament
Until one day, the breath of life is stripped from me
My despair… can’t you see???
Copyright © Stevenson Benoit | Year Posted 2007
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