The Narrator

from Departures by Kincaid

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Lately I have been distant
Lately I'm lying still
Keep floating with the current
Letting it take me wherever it will

No guise of hope, only questions now:
What air to breathe when I start to drown?
How much a certain life is worth
If you keep wondering what could have been?

And I keep falling
Into the cracks
Of the pavement
Following tracks

Of the person I was so sure to become
Now a hollow phantom of things to come
Awaken from insomnia in stinking sweat
And every new day might just be the worst one yet

I'm so sick of the stoic
So sick of staying calm
So sick of writing songs
About 'you and me'
About 'where we are'

As if the world revolves around this
As if I'm privileged to ignore it
There's more to living than suffering
There's more to life than just one being

I will keep trying to be the best version of myself
Though it just feels like I keep failing every day
Too preoccupied to see other people's fates
That everybody's got their own meals on their plates
I suffer loudly, always long to annotate
I'm just a narrator who aims to entertain

One day, I'll open up my hopeful heart once more
I'll scratch it right off the dusty bedroom floor
Invite the whole world in
Just like I did before

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from Departures, released July 9, 2019

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