A Heavy Silence

Running As far as you can But only to the bottom of the street Where they can still see And that is where they want to keep you Sitting No time for playing There are things that you really need to know So keep yourself smart These things are all very important Sleeping Even when you talk Letting words form at the roof of your mouth And roll down your tongue To curl up in their smiling pockets Falling Just brush yourself off These things happen to everyone your age Get up on your own And don't blame the people walking by Bleeding You can't see a cut You think you got it when you were falling No one saw you fall You still have that pain in your stomach Landing No more bleeding now Trying to settle on top of the ice But you fall straight through And you learn to breathe underwater Floating Your eyes are open The sea bed lets you in on a secret You don't have to eat You start to crave the ice less and less Sinking Things change quickly now You don't even try to swim any more Even though you shout They can't see the water like you can Nothing You were so perfect They just can't see how this happened to you Boys don't get depressed Or put weights inside pocket linings.

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