Contemplations of a cynic by Surrealier, literature
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Contemplations of a cynic
Contemplations of a cynic
My life began, I was to learn to stand
Perhaps, maybe try to be a man
You stood before me and grinned your grin
Now that made my heart swell and spin.
I felt myself fall, cold with the rain
Too scared to think that people would think of me vain.
And now you're gone and I'm all alone,
My mind starts to moan
Why didn't I tell you?
Why couldn't I see?
Over the tables of coffee and tea?
Then it comes to me like a skydiving dream,
Love is not all as it seems.
It wasn't meant for me, and that's what nobody can see
Why do they try to be friendly, try to be nice?
When all of it melts off me like the colde
Smile
If there was one line I could use to make you smile
You'd hear it in seventeen different languages all the while
Would you laugh or would you cry?
Or sit and draw random shapes of symmetry?
I'm having another drawing moment,
But the subject of my drawing just got stolen
So instead I'll draw your smile
You might have to hold it for a little while
If your cheeks start to hurt, I'll say the line
That might just make the day mine
Or we could talk of tigers in the forests of the night
Would your slender hands or sharper eye dare frame it's fearful symmetry?
But never mind the tiger, it's on a leash
And we can go on trying to g