Somewhere Else

Self destructive need
To defy authorities
Probably won’t choke out
The fact that you don’t care
Doesn’t matter anyway
Remember the conversation
We had about being too much
Keeping up with the
Usual opportunities
It’s nice to know we can
Live to jump again
Close encounters
With the potential
Suspects for clinical
Undermining are not
Only a matter of public
Concerns but a fact
Which has been disrupted
Even a bottle tossed
Into the sea
Cannot answer
Is the back and forth
Deserving of a dose or two
Would Thorazine
Cure the symptom
Or just cause more frequent
Tongue thrusting in the end?
If the gods of transportation
Could be kind enough
To provide an exit route
Then I suppose
There are worse things
Than being crazy
Somewhere else

© GÄ

Someone Else

When in Rome
Do you resent
The way I smile
Overgeneralizing
Emotional reasoning
Cognitively distorted
It may not be true
Contorted views
But it feels real
When I’m with you
When you want it
The way I sing
Grabbing away at life
Never repealing
Would you
For fame
Throw me under a train
So you can have it all
Without me
Certainly if you resent me
How could you present me
To others
To the world
Too much art
Overspread
Too much good to bear
But not for
Someone else

© GÄ