Post by Bard on May 22, 2008 23:07:40 GMT -5
THE DEVIL’S SHAME
I’ll be writing a frenzy, now
Because I don’t know how
Else to expel the overflowing
Feelings that lead to nothing
Of much significance except
That I can’t get rid of it
Is he right? Have we not changed?
And then if thus, from when does
The same begin? At what stage
Do we pretend? I don’t know
How to tell.
He went the length I considered
But went farther than I managed
But yet not far enough and I
Think to myself that if I had the courage
That he had, to try
I would have been successful, I think
Because I knew what pills to use
I’m not sure which part
Makes me most unhappy.
I’m not sure whether I still wish I’d had
The chance to try and die
Or that I wish that he’d finished it
or why
Since he tried there was a story to be finished or begun
If he’d died I could have understood it as I wished
But since he’s alive he has the chance
To write his own story
I do wish I could finish a story
Any story
Any story at all
Is that fair of me?
And Now I Feel The Devil’s Shame
Of Trying Too Hard And Failing The Same
Were It Only Written Our Part Would Be Strong
But Since It Is Living
We Are But Wrong
I’ll be writing a frenzy, now
Because I don’t know how
Else to expel the overflowing
Feelings that lead to nothing
Of much significance except
That I can’t get rid of it
Is he right? Have we not changed?
And then if thus, from when does
The same begin? At what stage
Do we pretend? I don’t know
How to tell.
He went the length I considered
But went farther than I managed
But yet not far enough and I
Think to myself that if I had the courage
That he had, to try
I would have been successful, I think
Because I knew what pills to use
I’m not sure which part
Makes me most unhappy.
I’m not sure whether I still wish I’d had
The chance to try and die
Or that I wish that he’d finished it
or why
Since he tried there was a story to be finished or begun
If he’d died I could have understood it as I wished
But since he’s alive he has the chance
To write his own story
I do wish I could finish a story
Any story
Any story at all
Is that fair of me?
And Now I Feel The Devil’s Shame
Of Trying Too Hard And Failing The Same
Were It Only Written Our Part Would Be Strong
But Since It Is Living
We Are But Wrong
