Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Don’t Keep the Change





Don’t Keep the Change


We live with borrowed smiles
we should give back
and with uniformed thoughts
we must properly wear.
Cigarettes won’t kill us, honey,
acting that "everything is fine" will,
as well as "it’s nothing" murmured through clenched teeth,
packed in aluminum foils
as heated kindness.
People who obsessively wash hands don't understand
that its not their hands that are dirty, but their conscience,
and  it can’t be washed with soap and hot water.
But there is no one to tell them that....
They speak roughly with insult, we smile back,
by reading, we have picked up the wisdom
that insults belong
to the offenders, not to the offended.
Don't count the change,
leave it as a tip.
We played madness too long
to note that
acting lacked
and the madness remained.

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