Racing for your approval <br />Giving in to man made rules <br />Gesturing with fingers atop my palm <br />How do you now stay so calm? <br /> <br />Whispering secrets from ear to ear <br />Tell someone else to be queer <br />Saying I've done the unthinkable <br />Now on a ship unsinkable <br /> <br />Feelings I can't give in <br />Mortal feelings of pain and sin <br />Have me stratched up to my knees <br />Oh, I call, I call in need <br /> <br />Calling a friend of mine <br />Could be easy if they were kind <br />I speak nothing but the truth <br />You act like a common sleuth <br /> <br />Solving mysteries under my coat <br />Isn't easier without a boat <br />To sail past my pool of tears <br />I dress myself in several fears <br /> <br />Now I wrap myself in melancholy <br />Hear my callings to be free <br />You are my shot at truth and hope <br />Quickly now, throw the rope <br /> <br />So I can hoist myself <br />To return to commonwealth <br />Calling to friends not around <br />To chains, I must be bound<br /><br />Pete Rivera<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pain-223/
