The Keys to Happiness
Take me back to yesterdays.
Lead me to that paradise
Take my fragile, glassy heart
Drag a ragg'ed razor
Tie a stone onto my soul
Speak to me of nothingness
Let me know a lack of longing
Lay me down within a hole
To the time when I was young,
that precious point in history
before shaping had begun.
where callousness means free;
before the cancer of romance
had formed inside of me.
and fill it full of lead;
offer me a wilted rose
to celebrate the dead.
through my love-encrusted mind.
Lobotomize my foolish dreams
and make me blissfully blind.
and drop me in the ocean
that memories will wash away
and drown my soft emotions.
where angels never fly
and all the jewels that crown the night
are simply stars up in the sky.
that desire might be just a word
and the thought of being hurt again
would strike me as absurd.
with indifference by my side
and, kindly, do not make to wake me
until the poet in me has died.