Avoidance

If you don't like it
Stay away, stay away, stay away
Avoid this marketplace
Go away, go away, go away

You've been triggered
Into anger, rage and porn
That's wrong, don't you know
Why your look of forlorn?

Just move on
Let it stew, let it go
Pretend it's not there
Just say it ain't so

A shallow perception
Of shadows hidden beneath
They're not REALLY yours
They belong to someone else

No need to look at
To light or embrace
This stuff that holds you
That steels rigid your face

Hardened and numb
You could fight till your death
But is the pain worth it?
Here, I'll give you your breath

Take it from me
And all this goes away
You'll have rainbows and butterflies
To brighten your day

There now, my dear, doesn't that feel much better?
You're light as the sun, as the moon, as the rain
In perfect harmony you can pretend that you are
It's not really you, someone else is to blame

Who am I you ask
To speak as I do?
Well God was too busy
I am Satan, here to help you

Gail Trojanowski
June 29, 2012

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