Everyone Says
Everyone says that my watch is green
when it’s color is actually red
Everyone says that eleventeen
exists only in my head
Everyone says that 2 plus 2
can only equal four
Everyone says my logic’s untrue
when I say “There’s something more.”
Everyone says that birds fly south
when they really take a train
Everyone says that word-of-mouth
is the way it’s always been
Everyone says I’m always wrong
so don’t trust a thing I say
Everyone says that I don’t belong
and I’ll always be this way
Everyone says that in the night
is when dreams are allowed
Everyone says that it’s not right
to state my dreams aloud
Everyone says my name bemused
as if I were a joke
Everyone says that I’m confused
without listening to what I’ve spoke
Everyone says what everyone thinks
what everyone else may be
When Everyone blinks then everyone blinks
Well, everyone else but me
When Everyone dies then everyone dies
lest they be the odd man out
Everyone takes the well-trod path
while I make my own route
Everyone says that everyone wants
to never be left alone
and if everyone sees as Everyone sees
then maybe I’m on my own
But Everyone doesn’t hold sway over all
and maybe some others were sieved
from Everyone’s grasp, then after we fall
perhaps we’re the ones that have lived