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Don't Ask Me
by: Joel Faypon

Tears don’t just fall for no reason
At least not yours
But as your eyes swell into
     a river of something
     I can not quite explain
     I can not quite read and
     I can not quite understand
I chose to keep my arms away from you
But why - I don't know.

I see you begging for something
     but you simply refuse to tell me
You spoke vagueness with your
     child like complaints
That I drag you down my misery sometimes
That my sadness is yours sometimes
And nothing seem to make sense sometimes
And why - I don't know

Is it freedom you are wanting?
Is it - and is it just that it is so damn hard to tell me
     so you reduce yourself to nothing
     but a crying wreck
Struggling to think about happy things
     just to cloud the reality of me -
     not having a past

And with you - living without a future
And us - living only in the present?
But why - when I have taught
     myself to see today instead
Sacrificing so much just to be
     in a normal co-existence with pain
     which was yesterday
And to live in total harmony with the sorrow
     of tomorrow
Don't ask me why again
     because I don’t know..