Paint My Portrait

(Joshua Lyons)

Based on the concept of someone seeing you a certain way despite your efforts to show them otherwise. Knowing that it's their fault they see you that way and that nothing you can do will change that.

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Paint my portrait
With your eyes closed
Don't paint the me
Whom you see
Paint the one you chose

Did you ever say a word that you meant?
Did you ever tell a story you did not invent?
Why are we grown up
And playing pretend?
As if kindness is a concept
You cannot comprehend

Paint my portrait
With your eyes closed
Can't change your view
Through any changes in my pose
If I'm the villain
In all of your prose
Don't ask me why
You're the thorn and
Never the rose

Seen and heard it all before
Shrieking, slamming the door
I must get out
Before the voice in my head
Begins to shout

Please don't go…

Paint my portrait
With your eyes closed
Make me the discord
In all music that you compose

Write my biography
You never even tried to
Really know me

I pray one day
Some shred of empathy
Will lead you on the path to me
I guess we'll see
© Joshua Lyons 2018