Are You Listening?

 

 

It's hard to say something

When there's nothing to say

Do I engineer a tragedy

Trapped on an island 

With a ball 

To be my companion

Who imparts pearls of wisdom 

With confucioun aplomb

 

It's hard to say something

When there's nothing to say

Do I purposely fall over

Onto my face

Becoming a grotesque extra 

In some fantasists play

Who gets ridiculed and poked

And saved by a bored billionaire

 

It's hard to say something

When there's nothing to say

Do I sit in silence

And sew my lips

Cross my legs

And shout with my banners

For freedom

And peace

 

Yet

It's hard to say nothing

When there's something to say

Mmmmmmmmmm

 

That's it!

I am

Mediocre

Mild

Mannered 

Modest

Middle management

Middle class

 

But I'd rather be

Moody

Morose

Mad

Mean

Mourning

Menacing

 

Then I'd be real to you

And you'd listen

To what I say.