Somewhere off the coast of Maine they caught a lobster that was blue and the odds of that happening were lower than me finding love that’s true. When will be my time? When will I get found? Do I wanna get found? Ask myself this very important question.
Got a list of things to improve to make myself beautiful, I do have some things I’ve left to do to make myself visible to men. Men with rigid fishing nets on wooden watertight ships, others sticking out their heads, but I’m still elusive to them. Catch me if you dare, can’t promise I won’t slip away.
I’m not feeling beautiful and I’m real hard to catch. I’m feeling exceptional, but not necessarily rare. I’m not feeling lovable, I got a list of things I’d change. Don’t you get accustomed to me, you won’t see him again. Unless…
Unless you come to the shallow estuary I’m in right now, place me in your palm and lift me out of the water like the most fragile thing. Do me the honor of being your boyfriend. I can make wonders happen if you let me make you happy. I have good intentions but also bad encounters in my past. If you do me the honor of being my boyfriend I can bring new meaning to blue. Make it no longer a color of sadness but pride of my rarity. I have magic in my name, water in my blue eyes. Get me to love me and love me, boy, show me how.
Don’t just say I’m beautiful, but make me believe it. Don’t make me beautiful, make me a believer. I’ve been feeling blue and there’s nothing rare about it. Make me feel exceptional, a blue lobster. Don’t pour sea foam into my eyes and maybe you’ll catch me. Don’t gaslight me, elucidate me instead. I’ve been hiding in deep blue waters where no one could find me. But deep down I dreamed of the surface.
Make me believe Teach me about pride Do me the honor of being yours Catch me if you can Give me reasons to stay Teach me about love and I’ll do you the honor of being yours and I’ll finally feel proud to be blue. Love me and get me to love me.
Poem #11 off “Divine Providence”
This poem is about feeling the wrong kind of “rare” and needing somebody to discern your beauty.