Optimist (And Besides, Who Said You Were Wrong?)
Hearts beat on
It never did take long to master the wonder of summers
And winter was by far wonderful
(And everybody stays strong)
Nothing ever went wrong
You meant rhymes were fierce and dangerous. Walls tumble
But you never said so it's not your fault
(Never your fault, blameless: not yours)
Things can't continue. We won't be hers theirs his
Three words pound eyes bright sparks persist
And there's always the one day (that won't exist)
When small sparks will become flames (you don't exist)
Waiting no frame no place to sit, waiting for this
Happen explode collide assist
In breaking all that I ever missed
(Rhyme rhyme rhyme, rhyme line line) break
Let the ice fly as the flames fall back down to dark halls
Brick walls that we're up against, freefall
Not good words but that's alright I guess
It's all up to me I'm so high up in the hierarchy now
Now back to second person, I don't want a thing to do with what I say
No other days
Would you take for true what marvelous games
We play wait stay things shall change and
We invented time machines as a symbol of tomorrow hope
The glittering things reform (reborn)
Don't kill me
Don't kill the things that take the longest to compute
If they have thoughts too
Inside you're pure and unblemished and there's nothing you need to tell me
Or ask (how are you perfection)
If it's so impossible?
A hologram of you is imprinted in the hollows of my
Shallow inexperience
I'm just not old enough to see
Or am I?
(Nobody knows enough to tell me)
Silence falls right back to everybody
And fall fall fall to dark dark skies full of pinprick light and bloodlets
Because what doesn't kill you always likely leaves you bleeding
Beating hard on plaster bars (aching for the drum) thunder
Beauty sleeps for the time being, would you stay?
You think I was never broken and there's always been a place there in the light
But maybe both of us are blind:
Don't you see, there must have been a mistake made somewhere
What have I done now...
(Whisper please)
Don't repeat the rhymes and phrases
(Whisper please)
Let the silence rise to greatness
(Whisper please)
Leave understanding-spaces
For the ungifted.
Uplift us
(In whispers)