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
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