Stranger No More

Stranger No More

If I am me enough they’ll
figure out the get-up’s phony
They’ll see through secondhand
hats and ties a fraying stigma

The dread that drags and catches
Back it down, might reconcile
But a futile effort splits illusions
Here and now: the odd one

So I won’t stay
No I can’t stay

You’ve seen enough of me
Your glaring eyes shout discomfort
No ragged hats and ties
could duly keep your screams muffled

My awkward being can be seen
Despite a try to cover
No cane to stand can keep me standing
So I’ll have to walk off

So I won’t stay
No I can’t stay
I don’t want to be

The stranger

I don’t want to be the stranger, no more
 
So I won’t stay
No I can’t stay

If you’re offended I didn’t mean to
I had no idea, I didn’t know
Social norms are to me
oh so foreign, I don’t belong

I'm feeling foolish just to be me
Apologies for being
How strange I am, it's who I am
it's who I am, I'm sorry

So I won’t stay
No I can’t stay

So I won’t stay
No I can’t stay
I don’t want to be

The stranger

I don’t want to be the stranger, no more

Jeeraphs - Comfortable Reds

Jeeraph Brushes #18

If I Could Fall This Time

If I Could Fall This Time

Look who’s sick
to stand with arms outstretched
Hoping you would accept
what I would sooner give

Clap for it
A dance of one which you
direct so cunningly
A seal play for fish

If I could fall just one more time
If I could fall
Just let me fall this time

Oh seraphim
Where do your lights all go?
You chant a blessed warmth
all for the one enthroned

I long for less
How short is the rest
But then to breathe, a need?
Oh praise that one last breath

If I could fall just one more time
If I could fall
Just let me fall this time

If I could fall
If I could fall just one more time
If I could fall
Just let me fall this time
If I could fall
Just let me fall this time

And go
Just go

Fiery Jeeraphs

Jeeraph Brushes #8

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