Externalizing

You turn your frustrations outward
Just like the people I resent
You may well think me a coward
For requiring assent
But when I cast that to the wind
All the worst things become true
And you may well unhappily find
That I turn into you

Props

Another war incited
From two speaking their piece;
Propping up a house divided,
The rest can only cease.

Longsuffering

I well can see the folly
Of my hypocrisy
Yet all that anger must go somewhere
And you bear the brunt for me

Preconception

I am too proud for the world
When I hear the judgements other people make
I’m not selflessly guided, no
I know it’s for my own sake
I know how I would feel
If they spoke that way of me
Then again, that might be a word
I think they call it empathy.

People Are Evil (People Are People)

People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so wonderfully?
People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so perfectly?

So forget all the others and forget all the things
You’ve done you’ve forgot are waiting in the wings
It’s obvious you hate me so I’ll just play along
It obviously must be something that I have done

I can understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
How I understand

People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so wonderfully?
People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so perfectly?

Now you’re brooding and you’re whining and you’re pitching a fit
I’m kind of inclined to do the same, I admit
It probably won’t matter, but my instincts tell me
The only thing to do is just to smile and agree

I can understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
How I understand

People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so wonderfully?
People are evil so why should it be
You and I should get along so perfectly?

Wounding

Don’t like the person that I am today
And neither does my dreams
Leaving a trail of wounded hearts
And an arsenal of means

It’s the final straw when savagery
Reaches one that I hold dearest
Best bite my tongue and start brushing up
On apology when anger’s nearest.

Justice

I’m not without my resentments
Sometimes they’re not fair
I take a lens from years ago
And think through it I see things clear

But there is no justice in that
And no future to be made
For me or them or anyone
Thus unfairly blamed.

Pet Procrastinations

I see your nightly procrastination
Illuminated by the light of your phone
I have no place in its relocation
Lest you not leave mine alone.

July

I never thought much of it
Now I jump at every sound
Each distant explosion
I hear threatening and loud

Each a gunshot that could be
Symbolic of what was
And the question comes to me
What would I give up for a worthy cause?

Blame

I owe you everything
Yet still I
Never fail to let you down
I let you drift out of my mind
Whenever you are not around
I look back at my hated life
And what can I feel but shame?
No matter what you did or didn’t do
You did nothing to deserve such pain.