Smile Like You Used to Mean It.

It’s so hot but it’s raining
Down.
The sun couldn’t keep bringing the ocean
Up.
So it hid.

Sitting on a skipping stone,
At the bottom of a lake,
Where I’m safe within a body
That can’t let me go.

And it’s all chemicals,
The way I feel this way (and that).
Why should I feel different?
When it’s just a reaction.

Brought the statuette of a lion
Down.
Managed to bring my head
Up.
To face the ground.

Talking to strangers in the street about repulsion,
Positive and negatives, but opposites don’t attract.
And the cynic just wants to be proven wrong.
Staring at the ocean the sun could never take,
Thinking about how you used to make me nervous.