Understanding Us Like Us

Understanding Us like Us The failing pendulum Prevents the gravity of its swing Momentum Weighted to the stretching hours The loneliness pounds But the smile ever ready Turns its puppetry of normality And jerks the strings In the corners of eyes To pupil vacancy asking why Why Do you know me Turn me back from the ripples Spreading dissipation's of indefinite endings You see my shadow And nothing more You hear my voice Do not pay attention to the words All emotion conversed in ashes The time stretches Out But the ever ready smile Turns its normality of puppetry The jerking strings of despondency Hangs lifeless In the corners of eyes Speaking with pupil vacancy Why Do you know me Do you know me Where I lay hidden In an out-rush broken Navigating scars With a un-tuned compass of hope Have you seen me there; in the rages of burrows In fearful attempts to pick a lock Promising escape Break loose from the molasses thick misunderstanding Stares The void The fractured space between us Its isolation condemned Its pitiful wail Heard only in the recesses of darkness But ever ready the smile Puppetry turn of its normality A masquerade so practiced carefully To disguise the sorrow And hide behind my pupils vacancy Asking why Why Do you know me