Genuinely Generic

Love no more a cold smile
Touch never again the reach beyond 
Far has become close
Yet not close enough 
No one is “normal”
Everyone pretends 
Most attempts to conform every idea of similar 
Difference is Fear’s shadow 
All have run, away, away, away 
Eyes drown more than once in jacuzzi temperature tears
Tongues fail to bench press teeth
Silence is what fool’s may deserve
So I insist on talking to everyone 
Sometimes no words are returned 
I retreat into sad sometimes
Know Desire
Say, should you mean it
Shhhh when you do not 
Think if you’re not sure
Is that why it’s quiet
Maybe becoming so abstract
See what they will
Broke what they wouldn’t 
Loved whom they would 
Despised what they shouldn’t
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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