Dare To aRise

Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster boy with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision

so you might want to turn your head

cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said



both my parents taught me about good will
and I have done well by their names
just the kindness I've lavished on strangers
is more than I can explain

still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so I would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
til I'd passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly boy

course too pretty is my doom

cause everyone harbors a secret hatred

for the prettiest boy in the room

and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to arise from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying back

I'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you

and I would like to state for the record

I did everything that I could do

I'm not saying that I'm a saint

I just don't want to live that way

no, I will never be a saint

but I will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster boy with no poster

I am thirty-two flavors and then some

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision

So you might want to turn your head

Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said