You can either be smarter than everyone else
or pretend you are less smart just to get along
undermine the truth to find a way to survive
concealing the facts in order to pass as false
as not gay or white whatever it takes to get
noticed as the same as others, as weak not strong
everybody knows the hoi polloi so contrive
in such a manner that the weak rule the masses
this is nothing new but something we all knew, bet
how the gods are gods together on Olympus
each serving their reign as lords of the mountaintop
reflecting the sky around a cloud, the nimbus
bestowing sainthood from darkness, lightning bolts drop
each to their own then, you may need reading glasses
smart, strange and not white, never to fit in, the air
made rarefied, thin, hard to breathe as in a club
as the sweat and smoke make stale the musty sweet stink
reeking underarms of dancers lost in their drink
thoughtlessly caught up in the thumping bass, the pink
everywhere but near and dear to your throbbing heart
remember my friend, live simply, without a care
trust no one but God, the voice of spirit unseen
how to live this life, each and every day, to start
at the beginning, as a beginner, a cub
not to a human, but among humans, a wink
everybody gets except you, laugh at the screen
visualize the same as different, as fragmented
each to their own then, possibilities endless
remind me to speak softly as words demented
yesterday by truth, carries a big stick, madness
obeys the right side, the rules of the road, the keen
noble blade, the edge of the precipice, to fall
eternally down, eventually vertigo
eclipses the drop, the perpetual becomes
like everything else, common, whatever you know
so evaporates into dust, a set of sums
embraces your life, unworthy and yet so tall
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