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Try - Billy Pilgrim


"Try" Billy Pilgrim

Another sleepless night, turn off my light
turn it off
Open my books, take in silence,
and wait for the dawn
Lock myself into place
Keep the sun off my face
When the morning comes
TRY to keep it all in sight

Form one thought, break it off, take a breath,
carry on
You think you matter so much
that you're the only one
In your mind you're a star
that I can see from afar
Before you've even begun
to TRY to keep it all in sight
If you feel it then open your heart
No need to ask it what for
Blood runs cold when it's shut from the sun
So open your door and what's more, TRY

Worked for years on their temples
to burn them all down
An angry horde disbelievin' set fire sacred ground
In its place they built tanks
Think, fish, and drunk tanks
And just to tear the sky down
They tried to conquer all in sight
Walled their cities as hight as they could
Kept them apart from themselves
Fought for ages and raged on the plains
with reasons misunderstood
but to the common good
Raised up their idols proteced their own walked on dinosaur bones
Spread a pestilent nature from mountain to sky
Until the rivers ran dry
and the rivers ran dry
that they owned

Watch the lights flash by my window
Throw ghosts on the wall
And every room in my house
answers back when I call
Trace the outline within
Trust in dreams to begin
TRY to keep it all in sight
And TRY to work it all out
TRY if you will, TRY if they won't
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't
TRY

via: delux_vivens

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

We Wear the Mask

WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!


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