The Reality of the Pain
First there was the rain,
Guided by the sun.
I played outside and just was me
And just was happy.
I thought I was cool,
I knew I was special,
But I wanted something different,
I wanted something more
Than the doors of
The school that taught me
What to believe,
When finally I found my voice
Not from inside, but in the beat,
The music calling my name
Farther and farther from
The reality which had claimed me
As its own, its toy, its manipulated
Bastard.
It was wrong.
I played and I played,
My saxophone gave me strength,
I made it through to high school
But then fell apart again.
The music pulled me back.
I learned to write,
To put the pain into words,
Put those words to song.
I once was told that
You only write songs for
Two reasons:
You're either in love,
Or you're falling apart.
This is where our story begins.
My poor sad heart
And my beating soul
Clashed head on,
Creating a melody of lyrics
Which no one has seen before,
No one has heard before,
Each one encompassed in
A meaning yet to be fully
Understood by those too weak
To feel the pain of not being
Wanted, the feeling of
Love gone to waste,
Of being so angry all
You can see is red.
Reality? Who cares.
All I needed was an escape.
Songs are the most
Common form of poetry,
Yet the failure to see
The hurt beneath
Both is the same.
Pain is the same.
An escape.
From falling in love
To falling apart.
We escape.
Together.
The reality of the pain
Is not how we get through,
But why we get through.
Some choose words.
Some choose love.
Others choose that physical
Pleasure which fails to
Please our souls.
Poetry. Songwriting.
The difference is
But in the form.
The meaning behind
The words and the tone,
The way to pronounce
Those words that form on your
Tongue, full of
Feelings like hatred and love.
This is the same.
This is the reality of the pain.
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