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I ain’t cryin’ (Nothing but Tears)
Where is this place, this place, that I find myself?
There are plants all around, but nothing moves.
I need a face, some face, so I can show myself.
There is a sky overhead, but it don’t move.
I see hands, two hands, when I close my eyes.
I see love, I see plants, and I see you.
Soft. Wet. I think I see your mouth.
Moving in towards me, but no words are coming through.
And it’s a white, white, white world for a white, white boy like me.
It’s a white, white world, and I am afraid to move.
But when the winter fades away, it won’t come again for a hundred years.
And I ain’t crying nothing, man, nothing but tears.
If I could guarantee that I could eat a golden fish,
If I could guarantee that the gold fish would be you.
Cause I do make-believe that I can eat a golden fish,
and I do make-believe that the golden fish is you.
But it’s a white, white, white world, for a hungry girl like me.
My stomach cries like a dying fish, but my mouth’s afraid to move.
But when the ice has melted down, I won’t cry again for a hundred years.
And I ain’t crying nothing, man, nothing but tears.
Silver friend, silver lover, silver boy, and golden man,
What of this great land inside of me?
This place that you can’t touch, this place that you can’t see…
But you could try, just try, to touch every place you can.
You can walk away like a shackled slave, but first just touch my hand.
Cause when my hand has walked away,
it won’t walk again for a hundred years.
And I ain’t crying nothing, man, nothing but tears.
When, and how, did my shirt get sobbing wet?
Could it have anything to do with you?
Black night, black man, too dark to see my hand.
I’ll see black, I’ll see black, until the day that something moves.
But when a black man fades away, he will not return for a hundred years.
And I ain’t crying nothing, man, nothing but tears.
It’s a bright blue day, it’s a horses’ parade,
It’s the very first day of spring.
And the men are tip tapping to the steeple bells
as they shine through a golden ring.
And the ladies are swaying and they’re dancing and playing
with their hair so long and gold,
But every time a pony shakes his mane
I grow cold.
You offer up a ribbon for my hair;
I give you a frown and a shrug.
Oh what about me? I also wanted to make love.
A pole is painted in bright red stripes,
A tent in stripes of blue,
And the horses got pompoms in their hair
and shiny saddles too.
And every lady wears a little bouquet
that was picked by a little man.
But my daisies are crushed beneath the pony feet
into the sand.
I need to find me a mountain
so I can rise high above…
Oh what about me? I also wanted to make love.
You wear a great big top hat,
You ride a great big horse.
You got a knack for politics
and muscular discourse.
You got no need for
You don’t believe in prophecy.
You got no use for trifles,
You don’t need me.
So put away the pompoms and the polka dots.
Put away the big parade.
All the men dressed up like fairies,
cause fairies ain’t welcome here anyway.
Small things, little things, odd things, pretty things,
All the theater and display,
Cause you don’t like, don’t like, really don’t like
fairies anyway.
You’re going down to the valley so low,
I’m gonna walk high above.
Oh what about me? I also wanted to make love.
Right and wrong
Is not the things I know about.
A song- but I could calm the waters on a cold, gray day
You will know my name.
I am a cloud; you can’t hurt me!
Strike against me with your strongest hand
Blow you like a boy across the waters
Smash you like a board back to the land.
Filling up the sails of the sailors
You’ll never know where I lie
Cut me, it won’t make you any braver
Falling out of favor with the sky.
Right and wrong
Is not the things I know about.
A song- but I could still the waters on a cold, gray day
You will know my name.
I am a cloud; you can’t hurt me!
Fall upon me with your heavy hand
Run away and yet I seem to follow
Clinging to your whiskers like the sand.
Creeping like a fog above the waters
You’ll never know where I lie
Curling round your shoulders like a vapor
Sucking from your lungs another sigh.
Forty stars against the light of day
Forty stars that draw away, away, away.
Right and wrong
Are not the things I care about.
A song- but I could cool the waters on a cold, gray day
You will call my name.
Push through trees at night you’ll never
find the one you’ll love forever.
Some die, some don’t
Some will some won’t
Follow me & I will show you.
Come find me, keep in mind we
won’t be coming home- I am bone.
Shine a flashlight on the dark ground
Time changes thing until they can no longer be found.
I once swore to go before you
Follow me & I will show you
Come find me, keep in mind we
won’t be coming home- I am bone.
When they scream you’ll know they’ve found me
Terror and shock they will surround me
Don’t shake don’t cry, I am nearby
Follow me and I will show you.
Come find me, keep in mind we
won’t be coming home- I am bone.
Rose. She likes the feel of your nose.
She knows that everyone knows her, chose her, sigh.
Brown. You like the feel of the ground.
To feel it blow all around you, down you, sigh.
Don’t let me slip through.
Don’t let me walk invisible by.
I am Nature; I get you high.
Green. Too many places unseen.
Too many footsteps behind you, bind you, why?
Stray. Seek everything far away.
Don’t let nobody scold you, mold you, try.
Don’t let me slip through.
Don’t let me walk invisible by.
I am Nature; I get you high.
Burn. Too many pages to learn.
Too many pages to follow, swallow, sigh.
Strive. You always fought to survive.
You always fought them to conquest, multiply.
Don’t let me slip through.
Don’t let me walk invisible by.
I am Nature; I get you high.
Swamp night, you wade beside me in the moonlight
I feel your scales upon my leg, slide
I feel you slither and I spread wide
I thought you’d died
You’ll never leave me; you’ll never go
You lift a finger, it’s made of gold
I will remember, I’ve never told
You are the skin man, I am the bone.
Cliff high, my hands upon it but I won’t climb
The water’s greasy and it’s waist high
but in a world where there’s no place dry
There’s no reason left to cry…
You’ll never leave me; you’ll never go
You lift a finger, it’s made of gold
I will remember, I’ve never told
You are the skin man, I am the bone.
Moon in your eyes, shining on me
I am the dark one, there’s no light in me
You are the bright sun, I’m down on my knees
My life is all done, you can do what you please
And when the end comes
We ain’t gonna cry, it’s just an echo to us
Cause we’ve already died
You are a monster man, but you don’t have to hide
Cause in your swamp world there is nothing you can’t buy
You’ll never leave me, you’ll never go
You lift a finger, it’s made of gold
I will remember, I’ve never told
You are the skin man, I am the bone.
Daylight, you wander off into the world, bright
You climb the rocks until you’re gone from sight
I will remain until the black night
Then you’ll hold me tight.
And when cops come by and they see me alone
I’ll say I’m here for a swim, I came on my own
but the bracelet you gave me scrapes my ankle bone
down beneath the water where it’s tied to a stone.
You’ll never leave me; you’ll never go
You lift a finger; it’s made of gold
I will remember; I’ve never told
You are the skin man, I am the bone.
Why you want to touch something so warm
When you know life is cold and it’s back to the war?
Why would you want to see ribbons tied to the tree
Every spring? Life is flat. Ribbons don’t mean a thing.
Or else maybe they do and the problem is you
Watch the kids sing and dance. What’s the matter with you?
Don’t you want to play play? Smile and dance the whole day?
No I don’t. Let me sleep till I gather my strength then I’ll weep.
Obviously there was a time
I believed in the sky, I could dream, I could fly
Then he came to my life, a man fresh out of prison
I thought he was wise like a purple magician
Well, I never believed, but I had to pretend or
He’d lift up his big log and that was the end
Flat on the ground with my face in a ditch drain
Watching the water flow learning the language of pain
Learning languages darker and deeper
Learn how to play dead and be a mind reader
Giving a hand job with only your hand
Was it Shakespeare who said “Villainy- your name is man?”
Maybe he said it, but who would believe it
When nothing has happened till no one has seen it?
Too many things that have never occurred
I saw with my face in the water, the images blurred.
Scenes of night murders, black powder voudou
Family and close friends cooked into a stew
I did not want to see it, much less to believe it, but
Water in my ears would not let me leave it alone.
Then one day I arose he was gone, and
I was not the same, but the world had marched on
Full of fair-weather friendships and white powder smiles
Won’t you tell me your story, sit down and stay for a while?
I would prefer not to, when you’d never believe me
I walk down the street and there’s black things I see, but
No one else can see them and they’d never believe them
Doomed to walk this earth with only one single friend.
So do I believe in the white unicorn?
Yes, of course, for he saved me with his silver horn, and at
Night we lie down and discuss all the black things
My finger, his horn, with eternity rings.
Until one day the black will reach it’s highest power
We’ll steal all its secrets in that final hour
Then maybe I, I’ll believe I can fly, so
We’ll smile at each other and we’ll turn to the sky.
the touch of silk, the smell of rose
that’s life, that’s the way it goes, i know
the smell of rose and lemonade
close my eyes, not afraid, oh no
everyone that seems to care they feel so far away
imagine that love fills the air, imagine it will stay
i could love you, i
who could love me, not i
a hand that’s overgrown with hair
touch me, that means you care, i know
a hand that smells like lemonade
every day sweet love is made, oh no
big eyes circle round the town
go ahead and stare
big eyes circle round and round
don’t look for love, i looked, it wasn’t there
i could love you, i
who could love me, not i
the smell of lemonade and rose
close your eyes imagine that love flows
the feel of silk where petals lie
please don’t say that love can die, oh no
white clouds settle on the ground and fill the neighborhood
feel my head spin round and round, this must be something good
i could love you, i
who could love me, not i
Handkerchief rests like a weight on my chest, I can’t breath, oh no
I knew from the start the things that come will go
You say you love me, but love is a word, tra la la, I know
Life floods when it comes and where it goes it goes
Restrain, I can’t breath, mind tries focusing
But what is there on which I can rely
I don’t feel love, I don’t feel real
Please don’t let them know how I feel.
Handkerchief lies like a weight on my eyes, I can’t see, oh no
I’ll come when you say come and where you go I’ll go
Hand on my chest, you gotta breath in and you must let go
But even when I gasp and wheeze the air will never flow
Faces in a blur, cold hearts, I am sure
Though their hands reach through the fog, I will demure
I don’t feel love, I don’t feel real
Please don’t let them know how I feel.
Smile girl, take your place
You knew life was a masquerade
Take a deep breath, then resume your place.
Everyone said the spring would arrive, so just wait through pain
I sat on the bench and waited for the rain
Scent of the pine, scent of the drops which on the needles lie
I waited for the thing on which I could rely
Silence is that you? Silver and golden too
Fallen on the forest floor, I walked all over you
I don’t feel love, I don’t feel real
Please don’t let them know how I feel.
I have friends. They are red.
Close my eyes, I can taste them
Burning hands on my face
Feel their heat, I am never alone.
Circle round, step in close
Feel their fire, let it burn me
Spinning now, I can’t breath
Feel their drums, let them turn me to home.
Guiding me through the ground
I want to dance in your fire through the night.
Falling down, topple me
So many arms that they turn into the light.
Is life cold? Is life mean?
All alone trusting no one.
Then they come touching me
Life is warm. I am never alone.
We are many. We are one
And we will dance thru the flame into the night.
Melting down, swallowing
So many arms that they turn into the light.
All my friends, circle round
Holding hands, never broken
We are one, center bound
Spinning arms, we are never alone.
Build our bed flaming red
And we will laugh as we dance into night.
Falling down through the ground
So many hands that they turn into light.
At last, my love, you do me wrong
to cast me like a stone from you.
When I have loved you so long
beside a stream named for you.
Hey, hey, you’ll never stay,
no willow bed could keep you.
Go, go, you’ll never know
I love baby unikorns too.
You touched my legs, you kissed my thighs,
you slid yourself inside of me.
And me, I watched with fairy eyes
the places where a heart should be.
This, this, the child of bliss,
the green fruit falling from the tree.
Down, down through the world of sound,
the valley where you led me.
Lead me where you led one time
and tell me what you said before.
So I can watch with human eyes
and see who I was sent for.
Man, man, do you understand
the Emerald King is at your door?
Flee, flee, he’ll never see
the good in what you stood for.
He comes with swords, he comes in flames,
he stands and shines to the side of me.
He’ll slice your head, he’ll cut your thighs
with his personal version of mercy.
Hey, hey, you’ll never stay,
no willow bed could keep you.
Go, go you’ll never know
I love baby unikorns too.
You believe in a god, and I
believe in the dog nipping at your heels.
You run like a baby to hide,
while I stand and wait till the sun disappears.
Then, then I’ll rise again
while you revise your history.
Son, son, the day is done
I’ts time for you to worship me.
You wanted to lie face down in a pool
They lifted you up; they wouldn’t let you fly
They thought that you wanted to die.
You waited for the train; you lay on the tracks
They came to arrest you; they wouldn’t let you fly away, fly away
They said you had to come back.
Knitting at night under the moon
In your mind is a bone; it flies through the sky all alone
That bone is you.
White bone on black sky, swimming through stars
Fly away friend, the whole world is ours
Spreading like vapor, slipping through cracks
The whole world is ours; fly away never come back.
Finally one day you escaped to the moon
Through a bottle of pills and you left a note saying goodbye
Do not follow me, please don’t try.
Not all of us fly, not all of sing
Like a bone in the night sky but you were a king
Stuffed in a jar til the glass had to crack
Now I’m happy for you and I don’t need for you to come back.
Because look at me now, how I stroll through the fields
The grass brushes my leg an electrical feel
Every blade is a song, every blade is a scroll
Oh, the things that I’ve learned! Oh, the things that I know!
Songs about forests, light pours through the trees
Rushing into the wanderer electrical green
Though he covers his eyes, the light seeps through his skin
He was prepared to lose, but now he is destined to win!
Songs about creeks where a man cools his toes
As the water flows through them he suddenly knows why
Why his friend said goodbye.
And other stories like these.
As you know, I love to read.
And if you lead the way I promise that I’ll go
Running fast because I love the mask you wear for everyone to see you.
And still you move the way that I can understand
Running fast with darkness in your vision, sunlight in your hand you know
The way they go your way for a while
Then turn, you beg
Faggot get down on your knees and finish with a smile.
And if you meet me there your fate held on a string
Spinning fast because you know the way they need your pain for all to see it
But first tell me the thing that I must understand
Oh my god, I love you Crazy Fingers- sunshine in your hand you know
The way they go your way for a while
Then turn, you beg
Faggot get down on your knees and finish with a smile.
I see stars in the starry sky
I feel stars in my brain
When they came with sticks and stones
I knew who was to blame…
Quick! Quick!
Hand it to me- silver cup-
Drink it down and shoot it up
I don’t to want to cry.
Last time when they came
Swinging with their jagged canes
I almost lost an eye.
To feel pain- okay! Okay to fall-
But give me someplace to turn, some name to call.
I see stars in the starry sky
I know why they shine.
When I saw them march at night
I almost lost my mind…
Quick! Quick!
Hand it to me- my syringe
I cannot afford to cringe;
I must not feel pain.
Closing on me in a ring
If they see me grimacing
They’ll fall on me like rain.
To feel pain-okay! Okay to fall-
But give me someplace to turn, some name to call.
I knew all the stars in the sky
I knew all their names
They controlled the people
Just like marbles in a game…
Quick! Quick!
Fetch my needle and my thread
Stitch my eyelids to my head-
They must not see my eyes.
They must never know the light
Twisting in from Pegasi that
Shines through all their lies.
To feel pain- okay! Okay to fall-
But give me someplace to turn, some name to call.
To cut- okay! To bleed…
Still I promise you, they’ll never see through me.
I see stars in the starry sky
I stood in their light.
They could see me flutter like a
Moth against the night.
Quick! Quick!
Fetch for me my special pill
Hide the money and my will-
It’s my time to fly.
If I have but one regret
It is that I’ve never met
Someone to tell goodbye.
Alone to live- okay! Alone to die.
Perhaps a hand waits for me in the sky.
I trusted you; your pale white face
I walked through snow to your winter place
Wearing no shoes; covered only in lace
Snowflakes fell to their death upon my face
As you waited for me inside.
But I didn’t know you had already died.
Your green eyes shone; they seemed to say
Every star that shines, it can be yours one day.
Though skin peeled and fell from your arm
I never felt alarm
I just stared into your eyes.
How could I have known you had already died?
Something hides deep in a cave
The darkest part of your ribcage
It can’t be seen; it has to hide
It can’t let anyone know that you already died.
In a deep dark well, I had lost some things
I gave you everything that it was possible to demean.
You seemed to shine, but it was only the glow
Of decay but I didn’t know
That God is always high
A pure white sheet in the sky
He never cuts us with a knife
Just to see us cry.
But I never flinched
I just held out my hand.
Love was a concept I did not understand.
Ice man, could you lend a hand?
You know that I’m lame.
Furthermore, it’s in the stars-
I’m the one to blame.
Thick fur surrounds your face,
Crystals freeze your eyes.
Lips blue, you heard it too-
The fragile sound of lies.
Cause it’s dark
But I don’t want to move
I think I’ll lay here at the foot of the hill
Cause it’s cold
But I don’t want to see
I think I’ll lay here still
Black eyes and sparkling skies
Shining blue on blue.
Ice gleaming on the mountain peaks-
That was me once too.
Paper mountain in a story book
In a land where no one dies.
Sketch a sun into your world of fun,
But it’s all a pack of lies.
Cause it dark
And I don’t want to move
I think I’ll lay here at the foot of the hill
Cause it’s cold
But I don’t want to see
I think I’ll lay here still
Thick hood surrounds your face
Lay it down on me.
Fall down onto my body
Help me not to breathe.
Night came so long ago
First it made me cry
Tears frozen & I feel the night
Bury me alive.
Cause it’s dark
But I don’t want to move
I think I’ll lay here at the foot of the hill
Cause it’s cold
But I don’t want to see
I think I’ll lay here still.
Cause it’s black ice, shining its cold light onto me
Don’t let it seep into me now
Cause it’s night sounds whispering their cold words to me
Don’t let it speak over me now.
Come on, baby, take that chain and wrap it round my neck,
Suck and spike me, whip and bite me, web me like an insect.
Tease me in this black room, til my armor turns to fluff,
Melt me in this hot room, til my heart floats on a swamp.
When it reach the boiling point, then say you gotta go,
Leave me dangling like a fly, blood-sucken and alone.
Leave me dangling like a fly, just wondering what I meant to you,
But if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you,
Yeah, if you ain’t mine, please get on back to the one who sent you.
I’m the gimpy antelope just munching on some leaves,
I raise my eyes to see the herd flying far away from me,
I raise my legs to reach them, and I’m flying cross the land,
Next thing I know, you’ve got me tumbled in the sand.
Next thing I know, my blood is sifting through the sand,
Next thing I know, my blood is drying in the sand.
My eyes keep living; they just watch the sky and you.
Oh, if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you,
Yeah if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you.
I fall for every game that any man could ever play;
Don’t know how it started, it’s just always been that way.
Some days a man just needs a game he’s gonna win,
When he’s feeling cheap and cocky, that’s when I walk in.
He sees me walking like a warden of the state,
Google-eyed and knock kneed, tumbled down by fate.
You can tell me anything, and I’ll believe its true.
But if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you,
Yeah if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you.
You think I’m alright with my fiddles and my fans,
But you don’t see the tears I cry; they’re bigger than a hand,
Big enough to douse the fire that once consumed the earth,
Crashing down like meteors towards the broken earth.
Filling up my bedroom, like a water hole in the sand,
Splashing round my ankles, and washing the dirt from my hands.
Sometimes, I let my eyes just rest in this pool and think of you.
Oh if you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you.
If you ain’t mine, please get back on to the one who sent you.
You rode my daddy like a dark horse through the night,
woke him up to ride him again.
You wrapped him up in your bear skin rug,
took him down low with your hands on his head.
He would have been nothing more than a horse
by the time that you got through with him–
but you know us immortals can never really make love to men.
He left you standing on your beautiful island
with the blue blue flag of the sky.
He sailed away on a raft made of twigs
crouched down low on his muscular thighs.
He slid away on the wide wide sea
with a rainbow flag you made for him–
but you know us immortals can never really make love to men.
Oh my mother, my mother with your wide & vacant eyes…
do you love him? do you love him? it’s such a thin & fuzzy line.
My daddy’s tan and he spreads like the sea,
you grow tall as a stem.
You use your beauty to communicate
but the shape of your body means nothing to him.
You splash around in the river of time;
he fights like a cat to stay dry.
You gotta wonder if he’ll ever think back
to when you slid like a cat down his muscular thighs.
To when you took his head in your hands
and did your best to humble him–
but you know us immortals can never really make love to men.
I am sailing, I am sailing, will you wave a flag for me?
I am coming, I am coming, will you prepare a seat for me?
The crystal child in the back of your mind
is the lovely shadow of me.
You found me stranded on the shore of your beach-
you did your best to comfort me.
You push my raft into the wide wide sea
and you wonder if we’ll meet again–
but you know us immortals can never really make love to men.
Mister, is there some price I can pay for the way to catch your eye?
I’ve watched all the ladies who drag your head as they walk on by,
rented movies with Julia Roberts to see what I should be,
and I’ve gathered that a man like you must require something more than me.
Mister, I’ve watched the curve of your lips, the shadowy pool of your eyes,
the shiny glint of gel in your hair, the shine of the phone at your side,
your confident stride that passes me by like a ghost in a zoo,
the brown of your eyes as it shines at the world that is real to you.
CHORUS:
I’m sitting here, watching you walk out the door like you do every day;
I guess you don’t see nothing here in this room to make you stay.
Maybe no one prepared you to know how to love an incompetent fool,
cause no one prepared me for you.
And the bluer I get, well, the farther away goes the look in your eyes,
& the louder you laugh with the ladies the swifter they crowd to your side.
And I stare at my hands and my feet trying to fathom what you see,
and I dream of the sun in your mind that has blinded your eyes to me.
CHORUS
Mister you will find me here when you come back through that door.
I’ll be the one with her heart in her throat, blue eyes down on the floor.
I’ll be the one who wanted to find the you that is lost in you,
hands outstretched towards your fire, fingers turning blue.
CHORUS
High on a mountain, with a helmut of cloud
Pushed a baby blue flag into the snow on the ground
Saw something move way back down on the ground.
Knew it was you & it turned me around.
I was running but my legs were all ice.
Rolling down the mountain like a runaway dice.
Down to the valley where the world was still green.
And the wind & the ice were still aclinging to me.
But I knew it was you, and I knew it was spring.
and I knew these lines would never criss-cross again.
I knew these lines could never hold in the wind.
And I had to tell my Indian friend goodbye.
You were dwarfed by the size of your pack.
It held you down like a stone on your back.
You had a pail with a heart on one side.
I assumed you had provisions inside
And I had to tell my Indian friend goodbye.
You’re walking west with your back to the wind.
The sun is setting like the heart of a friend.
My tears are melting & theres blood on my shin.
But I had to tell my Indian Friend goodbye.
Last night I dreamed as the wind blew around.
Shaking my tent like a pebble it found.
Just like a giant kicking boulders around.
I was afraid of being ripped from the ground.
But I dreamed of you far below on the ground.
Walking through the valley with a whistleing sound.
Making your way into some far away town.
I assumed that you had business in town.
And I had to tell my Indian friend goodbye.
Running down a mountain aint the easiest thing.
When you know you have to climb up again.
When provisions are short & your ankle is sprained.
When your tears are unfrozen & they’re falling like rain.
But I had to tell my indian friend good bye.
Well its certainly true that you have places to go.
I noticed your lunchbox is padlocked in gold.
The gold will be sold in a far away land.
You’ll walk in like a tear drop &
and they’ll make you a man.
Do you think I’ll make it up the mountain again?
Do you think I’ll be climbing with my back to the wind?
Will a flag be waiting like the heart of a friend?
Will the clouds fall on me like a helmet again?
Will my tears freeze & stay in one place?
Will they cover up the blood on my face?
Will the blood walk away from my fingers again.
After racing up to shake your hand.
You’ll do well with your locket of gold.
You’ll buy flowers & beer with the locket you sold.
The words we exchanged will grow dusty and old.
You won’t remember them until you grow old.
Then you’ll glance up to take a look at the sky.
You’ll salute to the clouds & you’ll tell them goodbye.
And you ll think of the time someone told you goodbye.
Rolled off a mountain like a rock from the sky.
Watched you walk with your back to the wind.
The sun was setting like the heart of a friend.
My tears were melting there was blood on my shin.
But I had to tell my Indian Friend goodbye.
Introduction to the Pine Fairy
The stars and moon were calling
but he didn’t hear.
The night was cold and piney
it was clear.
He stayed inside and cried
as though somebody died.
His heart was breaking in two
on the inside.
The owls were cold and silver;
they were harsh.
Green things were fermenting
deep within the marsh.
He rested his head down,
a king without a crown.
The staff held in his hand
was made of larch.
Why did he cry?
Cause he was learning to love himself.
But why?
Because no love came from anybody else.
People say they care
but they can’t always be there.
At times it’s best to think
of something else.
The stars were going crazy
on a whim.
Tomorrow night he may be there
dancing right beside them.
But right now he is tired.
His brain is blue and mired.
The produce on his shelf
has all expired.
Why is he tired?
Because he’s learning to love himself.
But why?
Because he can’t get love
from anybody else.
He lives in a forest of pine.
His home is hard to find.
No one has knocked upon his door
in the longest time.