Cant Say

Can't speak my truth anymore
people have become hard hearted

stiff upper lips and code to ethic
forget it forget your not in control

who who lets love in these days
who tells the truth of their own

solitudes only our art can save
us now art is all there is now

paint a picture in words in words

I was attacked at dawn in winter
he was in a uniform a peace man

no he was in uniformed disguise
he broke my left shoulder tendon

brute strength will do that rip
he was a violent man in uniform

the doctor said seven years later
take this pill you wont feel any

more pain your tendon will hang
you wont feel any more pain and

stop telling this story of yours
there is another side he said

another side to this story
the local doctor reported

I was excentric

even by Denman standards

I lived this side of the edge
wow what a judgment I say

she would never be herself
i mean excentric who uses

words like that to describe
another human being

and then to say she knows
the edge silly silly woman

I jumped off years ago and moved
through time and space

I am an nano second she is
an hour that goes way slow