If You Could Read My Mind

As I get into the car, I notice the song playing on the radio

It's the famous words by Gordon Lightfoot sang by Johnny Cash

"If you could read my mind"

As I sat in the car listening to the song, I began thinking

What if someone could read my mind

What if someone heard and tried to decipher the mad rambling,

The endless whispers, and the sea of thoughts

Forever floating in my brain

If someone could read my mind and explain to others

All the ways I feel when I say "I'm Fine"

Even though I never am

I would pay big money

If someone could explain what goes through my mind on the  daily

Because most of the time

I don't even know what's going on in MY OWN BRAIN

And the worst part?

Trying to tell an ignorant 8th-grade boy how I feel,

When a teacher sends someone to check on me

After I run out of the classroom

In a full-blown panic attack

When I still don't know why it happened

But no one can read minds

And even if someone could, they probably couldn't read mine

So as I stare out the window, I wonder

If there isn't anyone who can read my mind for me

How can I figure out how to read it myself?