Understand Understood

This jostling has warn me out
these are not really the things I have to share
these are but your expectations for your care
playing the puppet on the string
for your simplified enjoyment
searching for your sense of pity
I have been playing with you
there are deeper things I have to say on every matter
from the nature of the stars to collecting city litter
but I have been quiet on such subjects
owing to the opposition I might face
owing to the fact you never asked
I’ve spent a long time waiting
for these few moments when we can get down to the gist
and forget about all this foreplay I thought you’d miss
but I was trained to it you see
to think that coddling was the key
to arriving at some conclusion
Now I see it will never end
this gentle coaxing of your security to rid you of falsity
has turned into a lifetime occupational propensity
and I’ve been sapped to the bone
praying for an impossibility
to show what I need you to see
I am not who you’ve assumed
there is in me a reality deeper than you can measure
it offends me that I must be silent for your pleasure
and now it is my turn to speak
I see you for who you are
you are the same as me

Garnet Robbie

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