poem meme / pieces of a man, gil scott-heron
content warning for addiction, suicide and violence.
just what am i living for?
you’re always haunted by the past.
ever feel kinda down and out? you don’t know just what to do.
and tell myself i got to be alone.
home is where the hatred is.
and if you don’t get help quick, you won’t make it through the day.
this world of ours. always torn by wars.
the questions can’t be answered.
which way is the road to peace?
people wake up every morning and simply push their lives aside.
if i follow my mind, i know i’ll slaughter my own.
a brand new sense of freedom.
i’m gonna take myself a piece of sunshine and paint it all over my sky.
every morning when you wake up, you put on a new disguise.
i sail out on my paper ship. the sea is made of fire.
i left three days ago, but no one seems to know i’m gone.
go away. i can’t stand to see your face.
home was once an empty vacuum that’s filled now with my silent screams.
i’m in a box. i’ve got no place to go.
and in the darkness of the dawn, i get down on my knees.
the revolution will not be televised.
home is where the needle marks try to heal my broken heart.
he was always such a good man.
stand as far away from me as you can and ask me why.
i pretend that i’m an iron man. yeah, instead of flesh and bone.
and you know that no one will ever miss you.
man at the crossroads. at odds with an angry sky.
it seems that thunder rules my life.
here i am after so many years. hounded by hatred and trapped by fear.
the world’s full of children who grew up too fast.
how long did you think it would take me to realize?
and now i hear the sound of sirens come knifing through the gloom.
yeah, but where can you run?
they seem to carry all their feelings. crushed and crumbled up inside.
why should i survive on sadness?
but there ain’t no peace on earth, man.
when i’ve seen everything there is to see and i know that there ain’t no sense in crying.
god, but did you ever try to turn your sick soul inside out so that the world can watch you die?
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