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There is no silence, I will keep following the sirens
I can't breathe
At least, I don't feel like I can
I don't know why
Tin wind chimes used for doorbells
Lately this feeling has been a little consuming
Perhaps that's why
It feels as though the air in my lungs has been stolen
We can travel so far as our eyes can see
Why it feels as though my throat is swelling shut
It's an allergic reaction to society
To it's two-faced lies
Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times
"Be yourself"
"Be like everyone else"
"Love yourself"
I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you
"Change yourself to what we say is best"
"Think for yourself"
"Think this is your opinion"
I could fall, I could fly, here in your aeroplane
They tell us what we want to hear
But we get lost in translation
Because we hear what other people want to hear
In the movements you made and the soft gaze you gave
As well
So then we wonder what is true
What should be
I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her, oh, I'm right over here, why can't you see me
And it tears us apart
Society is wrapping it's pretty noose around my neck
It's pushing it's sweet poison into my lungs
Everybody knows, every single soul's looking for heaven
But my body doesn’t want it
My body fights it
That's why my throat is swollen
Late at night looking at the stars, carry moonbeams home in a mason jar
Why I'm on the edge of tears
Why I feel too much
And nothing at all
Cuz recently the line is blurred between depression and bliss
That's why I'm afraid of the depths of my mind
Afraid of the darkness that could lurk there
That's why I wandered around campus in a daze
Nothing in my head but the holes in my sweater
Lost to the world I was
Until I cried the gas out of my eyes
And saw clearly
It's been a long cold lonely winter