Its All Wrong For You And Me Poem by Daniel Richards

its all wrong for you and me

As I look around this table tonight
At all the bodies settle in the velvet seats
Dimming lights and flickering candle flames
Settled in your seats dishevelled hierarchy
You can own anything you see
sell you sole for full control
Implore you righteous self belief
Is this what you want?
Is this what you want from me?

As I look around this table tonight
At all the bodies settle in the velvet seats
Here’s my blood, pouring from my palms
My tears streaming from my eyes
What do you want me?
Shall I sing, shall I dance like a puppet on a string
Or play till my fingers are numb
Your all so, so, so hard to please

A sudden realization overcomes me
The table I’m seeing is not one for me
I don’t even sit at the side,
I float overhead and overhear what they want from we
A life of something we don’t know, a promise
Of answers we will never know
They want us out in the rain and sleet
They only partly want me

You think you can have anything you want
Drift and you can dream even walk on water
They make you think you can have all that you see,
Just sell you soul to them is that what you really need?
Give them complete control? Then turn and face the night
The light falls upon those with eyes to see
The crowns the riches are in control and they deceive you and me
Is this something that you know?

Did you think it was going to be alright for you and me?
Then you do and still fail to see its all wrong for you and me
Yes you and me
Have you realized what you’ve become and I bet you didn’t see it come
And now from you, you are running from you