Doctor Doctor

I’m drowning

I’m drowning

and doctor,

you're prescribing the water.

Sinking, sinking

How fast can I go?

Down into the deep,

and maybe I’ll lay my head down,

it’s a perfect time to sleep.

Thrashing for air

and the water’s locked in,

got a hold on me.

I’m screaming to rise up,

float and coast

ride the bubbles

but the air,

it's just too cold

and the water,

the waters too deep.

Drowning

while you describe the motion of the ocean.

Speak a little louder, please.

All these words I'm

spilling out,

you know their true,

but you ain't listening

because they didnt come from someone

who looks like you.

With all these categories,

blondie, brown, short and tan,

certainly I can't fit them all in.

My voice is pretty damn new

compared to you,

so why not take a minute and listen in?

Yeah I've got ink,

sorry it's not in a pen.

True, I've got steel in me,

but it's not all nerves.

Guess everyones in an uproar,

because I took a few ounces away

from the artists in the great masterpiece of war.

I'm not sorry I'm a sinner,

I just wish you'd read what I have to say;

You're afraid because...

because you might just agree.

Your name, my name.

Does my name scurry across the back of your mind,

once in awhile?

Like shadow footsteps going ‘round the corner,

fleeting.

Because yours haunts mine,

like a secret you shouldn’t know.

Magnets we are like;

Opposites come together,

but our similarities push us apart.

Did we both burn

in the others fires,

or did we

extinguish one another,

smothering, smouldering.

Tell me,

does my name cross your mind?