Tell me you love me while you still can. I won’t be here forever nor will I always want to hear it. I’m easy to please, if only you’d listen to me. Talk to me nice or..It could be so simple. Big 30 Piece got my body feelin’ different. The gym has become one of my better friends, I don’t know if that’s sayin’ more about me or them. When I wanted to go corporate, God had better plans. My ambitions rest down a dark path, with your light to guide me. I’m not the person that I used to be.

Backbends and mental gymnastics just to hang. Real and fake like oil and water or capitalism and liberation. I’m a bigger pretender without the makeup. You don’t know me like you think you do. Know me through the art, it’s where I hide my love. Ripped sleeves taught me to hide what I hold dear. Life is fragile but I was overprotective, too afraid to lose it. I surrender, like a stiff gun barrel is pressed against my spine. My hands in the air, with only my life to give.

I was driven here by Vengeance but Love will carry me to the end. Enough soulmates for several lifetimes, I’m falling in love with art instead. Fictional heartache feels like the real thing until the closing credits. Use me for what you need, then leave me be. Reality is the one I see in my mind, not the one they sold me. Ships across choppy seas to the promise land, that’s what we prayed for. The stories we tell are too important to me but a house in the hills will surely ease the stress. Chewing gum until its powder, but they’ll never see me sweat. Empty paper cups sprawled all over the floor, halftime is almost over.