Lessons Learnt

There's somethings you can't teach
in schools
Lessons you won’t ever learn from
text books or tutors.

Something’s that will never be so
crassly represented through vocalization
how to deal with desperation, need, want,
being without and the rest.

Like the gears of a clock
it all comes together in the
end
but in the mean time
you need, you want and you're
always without.
try and make sense of it
try the unthinkable

The world is cold
and the only thing you
can do is be colder
grow thick skin
and fill your glass

To want something that
you'll never have is greater
than you'll ever know
but to need is overshadowing