All I Know is Your Blues Ain't Like My Blues

[feel me?]

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
[Kahlil Gibran]


Snakes and Martyrs

everyone makes the same wave
at the same time
(like pebbles on water)
and we call all those interrupting lines
(sons and daughters)
a community
so lets join hands in song
blessed unity

but brother, i don't wanna know you
i don't even wanna know you
and sister, i don't wanna know you
i don't even wanna know you

but we're stuck
in this lovely mess
i hold you close and smile
fake, like they do way out west

so many medicines
for so many heads
i'd help you clean the skeletons
from under your bed but

i don't even know you
how could it be me that sends you?
darling, didn't your mama
tell you not to let no stranger bend you?
probably someone here that could
help to mend you
but it's not me
got my own anxiety

sadness isn't any way to explain
i know you're crying tonight
drunk and insane
it's as simple as the way

you wear your unpolished shoes
and your righteous grace
is a rainbow
but all i know is your blues
ain't like my blues
and why would they be?
if there's one commonality
it's that that feeling is mutual
given time, you'll see
you'll see

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