"Just the Same"
Ritualistic beating of drums...
Pound upon my brain.
"Silence!" I scream,
Oh, damn thee upon this day!
The rain scatters across the way.
Small explosions expand,
and slaughter the horizon.
Imagining I once kissed your face -
Oh blue, so gray.
My arms from their sockets soaked,
Your demented grasp pulls at me,
to watch, to peer and remember
"Leave my mind!" I implore thee.
The clouds begin to spread,
like an unwilling virgin...
Like that smile against your face -
That tainted grin I've come to hate.
I despise you.
I love you.
Your worthless values - shame.
We stand by side beneath the rain,
your smile, just the same.
Copyright 1998
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