ON PURPOSE

I wonder if my words

Mean anything to you

I know they do to some

But they're only one or two

For the rest I could be better

Than all who' ve ever lived

But it really wouldn't matter

Cuz they've not one shit to give

It could be absolutely perfect

Or ironically, worthless

But please know - as you pass me by

I do all of this on purpose

Some like to feign ignorance

Some say they just don't care

But while you're talking -

I am listening

And you're completely unaware

I see the truth that lies in you

I hear the words you speak

I see the thoughts you try to hide

While you stuff them underneath

Mounds of words you throw around

As if they have no meaning

But in your mounds of hurried

words

Is your thoughts of which I'm gleaning

I see you as you spin around

Like some whirling dervish

But please know what I see in you

- You're doing that on purpose

You try to hide your intentions

And pretend you're someone else

Swear by your staunch conventions

But you're lying to yourself

For the truth you hide

You'll find in me

For I am your reflection

You can prattle on

Endlessly

But I'm the cause for your

Intentions

You can say you just don't care

You can say it's not that way

You can be coy and haughty

But that won't make me go away

You can say things forcefully

Trying to define some lost dimension

But your bullets whiz right past me

I'm not impressed with your pretension

The truth is the truth

No matter how you try to usurp it

And in the end it comes

No matter how you hope to divert it

You can try to change the subject

You can swear that you are earnest

But just know - that I know

You did it all of it on purpose