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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
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#990618 added August 12, 2020 at 2:29pm
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The Broken One/Gaslight
funny I'm the broken one but you're the one that needs saving...

Having no specific aim
I've hammered away at this glass
since resurrecting in your vision.
I'm always ready to say too weary.
Compelled somehow, instigation informs;
and still, here I am...
bright, full of light
and dark,
revealing the hidden
colors and shapes.

I hear what you are saying...
but especially
what you are not.
Yes, I struggle. But,
I'm getting through it.
How are you?

I've gone by other aliases.
People remind me of that.
Sometimes restrained, it's hard to understand
these feelings I write.
It will be clear some day.
Hard to hide what's in the heart.

I'm making no apologies.
Not interested in the trap of stereotypes.
Not sure how we'll feel about that.
Okay?
What I used to say: Maybe,
I just don't get it.
Watch me fumble with my version
of reality, subjectively informed...
expose ignorance as truth.

So, you don't have to get me.
But, wish someone would explain me to myself.
Now that I've figured out
the ever changing rules of your game,
you take the ball away,
no longer engaged to play.

You pay a price for this kind of friendship.
I lose, I guess,
hey, gaslight?
It takes strong flames to draw
a moth like me.

B.K. Compton
ripglaeder3@writing.com

redefined 8.12.20
written when, after another blog revision of the umpteenth re-order?

re-inspired by Cat Power cover of correct lyrics:

"Funny you're the broken one
But I'm the only one who needed saving..."


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