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 © Jelani Hall | Year Posted 2017
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