Shouldn't I have known it wouldn't be meaningful
That only in my own mind does it make sense
Do the words and thoughts have any power
Only in my mind do they seem real and true
I shouldn't have come to you
Is this how it was meant to be
Will the poet always be lonely
Lacking understanding
Dead heads only nodding
Dead eyes that can't read
Between lines
Eyes that can't see symbols
Symbols and signs
You never shared my love for abstractions
In your world everything's for granted
Realizations about life and death
Aren't allowed to stray near you
Only in my mind do they seem real and true
I shouldn't have come to you
Is this how it was meant to be
Will the poet always be lonely
Lacking understanding
Dead heads only nodding
Dead eyes that can't read
Between lines
Eyes that can't see symbols
Symbols and signs
I don't make divine observations
Life isn't a starry sky to be analyzed
But I live for everything between those lights
Everything that can't be seen by our eyes
Everything that can be imagined
And at the same time is more real
And says more about you,
And about the world
Than anything
Is this how it was meant to be
Will the poet always be lonely
Lacking understanding
Dead heads only nodding
Dead eyes that can't read
Between lines
Eyes that can't see symbols
Symbols and signs
Life lines
I found the chorus (or whatever you prefer to call it, anyway the part you wrote repeatedly) the strongest part of the poem, the most meaningful, the most touching. "Dead heads only nodding", you have no idea just how creepy images popped up in my mind...
ReplyDeleteSaying chorus works fine, I was at first thinking to label it as lyrics but I didn't have any melody to go with it and it did feel like simply poetry to me as I wrote it. Then of course it could be a little bit of both. The chorus was the part I worked most on, the other parts I just let be as they were. And it is indeed in these parts that I convey the message that I wanted to.
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