POEM
Keep Smiling, Keep Breathing
So I'll just keep smiling
I'll just keep breathing
I'll keep holding up
All those I'm deceiving
I'll just keep breathing
I'll keep holding up
All those I'm deceiving
Feed me your lies
Your hope and regret
Let it all in
I'll settle my debt
Your hope and regret
Let it all in
I'll settle my debt
Let them now fall
Tears softer than snow
Why am I here?
What do I owe?
Tears softer than snow
Why am I here?
What do I owe?
Why do I listen?
Where did it start?
Sadistically speaking:
"Tis' my work of art."
Where did it start?
Sadistically speaking:
"Tis' my work of art."
Flashes of color
One heave of my chest
A pitiless pain
I hold in my breast.
One heave of my chest
A pitiless pain
I hold in my breast.
Alas, what I owe!
What have I done wrong?
A last haunting sigh
Of my final song
What have I done wrong?
A last haunting sigh
Of my final song
Or was it my first?
I no longer care
Tis' if there was poison
Where once there was air
I no longer care
Tis' if there was poison
Where once there was air
A tap of a key
A vowel into place
A shield to the world
From my woebegone face
A vowel into place
A shield to the world
From my woebegone face
They help me keep smiling
While I just keep breathing
And keep holding up
All those I'm deceiving
While I just keep breathing
And keep holding up
All those I'm deceiving
-Zacharia


