We Are Not Alone
People like us cannot feel aloud
We hold the world's pain within our own
To mask the anxiety in our words, in our thoughts
We talk about spring and joy
Like we understand where it comes from
Because we felt it once. Briefly
We smile, we laugh, we live
But in truth we're all liars
We protect ourselves at all costs
We speak to the mirror because we refuse their answers
Betterment and peace cannot lie out there
Why can't we just fix it
The wailing sirens come for us eventually
But the person that needs them the most
Always backs away, deeper and deeper still
Maybe if we hid and they left
It will go with them
But we would hate ourselves if we tried
Yet life goes on
And the flashing lights must be appeased
Some thing needs to show proof of life
They answer the door for us
And stand at the window and wave
So that the neighbours know we are home
They absorb what we cannot
The happiness and tenderness
Banalities of life that we struggle to ingest
You see who you are allowed to
Who we want you to
Who you need to see
We've been burned trying stoke our own fire
So we hold back and just watch
As the glow begins to fade
We refuse to allow a single tear to leave our eyes
Because we know it will not stop at one
It will not stop at all
Copyright © Pravir Dass | Year Posted 2019
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