Surrender

they say you haven't changed
well if that's true, keep your silence
Keep it, I don't want it anymore
I will speak now and I will hold my piece forever
My Peace--it's not really on the line these days.

they say you want attention
well if that's true, I don't believe you
Take it, I don't need it anymore
You always had it anyway
It doesn't cost me anything.

well who is it, they or you...
You say. Oh, that's right--
You're your own enemy
And they are happy to oblige
Scourging your soul, your skin
i can't tell the difference anymore.

You used to be you
then you disappeared
amongst the faces, amongst them,
amongst all of what the world babbles
psychobabble

they say you're a cliche, predictable, obvious
obviously, well, that may be true but I'm not, I won't
let it
I'm different.
Your mistake was believing you're not.
Your only chains
were the ones you laid over your shoulders
Willing.

It's become blase
It's become trite
To believe you're special, unique
but you are
and I am
and We're Not
Them
and They are.

Believe what they say, fine. That's what they say.
That's what you say.
They say you believe them, are coming to see, giving up
You say you believe them, I laugh.
Don't talk to me until you can prove them wrong
Again.

We all have to surrender sometimes
a little bit
sometimes a lot
but never all
And never ourselves
never our source, never our souls.

Humility
Is knowing when to let go
What to let go
Folly is letting it all go
The good with the bad
Yet it's true
Things bloom in silence
Evolve.

I trusted you, and only you
With silence, anyone else I would cut loose
Tell off
Let go
Never speak of again
Like her
If you're not doing what you say,
Don't let me see you until you are

And I know.
It's not just you,
it's me too
And I'm working on it.
We can't ask more than
learning from our mistakes.

How's this for predictable?
I made a promise and I won't forsake it
How's that for them
for all of them, for the world?
Some of us don't break our word so easily
When we give it, willingly.
They say everything's interchangeable
I'm not.
Your mistake was believing you are,
that people are, places.
You're not. And I'm not.

they say you want me to believe
that I'm so easily cast off
Who--they or you?
As long as I know I'm not--
and I do--
you see, one underestimates
Me. My self.

Trusted, you'll prevail
I know it
And if they're right,
Don't let me know about it
Because I never will be
Trite.