do you ever feel the pain of a rain drop?
i mean, think about it,
what sound does rain make?
pitter patter, pitter patter
well, other than the fact that it's the sound of a water droplet hitting the object it's making contact with
do you ever think that maybe that sound is the rain drop screaming?
do you ever feel that pain?
do you ever feel the pain of a 56-year-old man who wants to see
his 7-year-old daughter?
do you ever feel the pain of a depressed alcoholic teacher in the closet?
do you ever feel the pain of that kid who's in the closet because he is afraid of his friends leaving?
do you ever feel the pain of a 15-year-old depressed kid who is asking you if you feel pain?
do you remember,
do you think about that one time
where you looked at me
and i looked at you
i saw colours upon colours
and dreams upon dreams
in your eyes
thats when i knew, i'm in love with you
but turns out when you looked back
you weren't looking at me
you were looking behind me
to see what the sign behind me read
i think about that a lot
do you ever think about the people who suffer more?
those who are anxious,
depressed,
schizophrenic,
blind,
deaf,
tinnitus,
a constant ringing in the ears
where silence doesn't exist
but a sound of constant ringing
a tape loop
of static, stuck on repeat
on the same track, going
d-d-d-d-du-du-du-du-du-d-d-do-do-do-do
do you ever think about that raindrop?
about how you just wiped it off your windshield
and killed its aspirations and dreams
kinda like adults do with kids
we **** kids aspirations
no kid, you can't be a poet
because you didn't write a good enough essay
on whether blue meant sad, or the colour blue
"kid, you must be an engineer, or a doctor"
"but dad, i wanna be a poet"
the dad slaps the kid
...what do you say to that?
the kid is in pain
do you feel that pain
do you ever feel the pain of a rain drop?
do you ever feel the pain of a 66-year-old man who wants to see
his 17-year-old daughter?
he wants to say, he loves her, but he can't
and he doesn't even know she's in an abusive relationship
so do you ever feel the pain of a rain drop?
do you ever feel,
at all?