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This Is Why I Keep To Myself

This is why I keep to myself
Cause if I didn’t
Life would be finished
And all would see and be all up in it

So at times I do regret it
But don’t ban me ‘cause you can’t stand it
Nor do you try to understand it
I love my life it’s not for granted

That I choose to be a loner
Instead of on the scene a goner
Minding mine and tilling my ground
Until the treasure I have found

I speak the truth and I keep it raw
A soul so young you never saw
To develop the mind of ripe old age
From the beginning of my days

You do not like me and I am somewhat content
You reject me but Bishop is heaven sent
In His kingdom call me resident
For I am king and not a peasant

My cold eyes you try to avoid
A mask you think to a heart devoid
Of human emotion and of compassion
Until you decide to come a-asking

And then you come to see that me
The one you never thought to see
Could be the one to keep you right
And place you up upon the tree

As deluges begin to fall
And flood the earth of all that crawls
And now you think to never stall
And judge a man who stands tall

This is why I keep to myself
This is why I lean on Him and myself
Not to say you are unworthy
But trust a trait I don’t take flirting

I came into your presence humble
You looked me in the eye and mumbled
Do I know you? For surely I don’t
That reaction is something not want

I try to open and extend a greeting
But you leave me with looks and feelings quite fleeting
So now I feel it was a mistake
For me to enter and try to undertake

This mission of find people like minded
When in the end they feel quite binded
So I took the tape and I rewinded
To the moment that I decided

To say hello, to shake your hand
To hug your person and say God bless
And ask myself why go through this
You are an outcast for you know this

This is why I keep to myself…

Copyright © Stevenson Benoit | Year Posted 2007

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