IF I NO ASK YOU NA WHO I GO ASK

Don’t ask me.

Don’t ask me why

Why the water breaks

And the future seems bleak

And i need to come out

But answers evade

And i' m lost

Don’t ask me why

Don’t ask me why

My words are cold

And it has no life

Or love

Why i decided to bathe it in salt

It soothes me that way

Don’t ask me why

Don’t ask me why

I have no answers

To the nagging octopus

That keeps swallowing me

And the ash of depression runs through my vein

Making my heart cold blooded

Don’t ask me why

Don’t ask me why

Fear is the grain

The grain that bakes my bread

Why it’s the wheat I make

Why it’s the salt I ooze

Why it’s the perspiration that runs down my skin

Why it’s the sand of my bricks

Why it’s in the air I breathe

Don’t ask me why

Don’t ask me why

My soup is dark

Dark from bitterness

The fish rots

Rots out of my closure

Auld lang syne

Which you know nothing of

Don’t ask me

Don’t ask me

Of my colours

My brown that fits perfectly

Hiding me inside

My black that speaks

Speak of my inner turmoil

My bottle green

The highest of them all

That machetes me within

That ceases my voice

And becomes my ambiance

My very deep grey

That speaks of my mood

My ash

That says gerrarahere

My mud brown

That makes me sink

In my depression

My navy blue

Beckoning me not to look up

Pushing you from looking down

Saying

Just walk like an army soldier

And I will not talk

Don’t ask me

So you wonder

If I no ask you

Na who I go ask

But I tell you

Don’t ask me this

I beg of you

I plead with you

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