Fela Payson Poems

For once in your life, listen
Listen to me when I tell you I didn't do it
Listen to me when I tell you I did do it
Hear me out when I say something
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If you close your eyes you can't see
You won't see how things could be
You close your eyes and shut your mind
You are mean and complain that they aren't kind
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The trees have secrets
They cover it with leaves
They're spies and undercover thieves
But every year they lose their cover
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January
It fell the season I fell
Not in love, no
I fell into the black hole that is adolescence
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The winds of Winter remind me of what I'm not
I'm not the wind.
I am the leaf that reluctantly gets dragged
The wind cuts through me like a knife
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