Performing Arts - Nieves

This poetry is hard to read

It’s prophesising death for me

A stage prepares for tragedy

A part we played too well this year

Your turn of phrase is mastery

You knit and weave a tapestry

But art is subjectivity

I can’t appreciate this piece

PRE-CHORUS

I’m not sleeping lately

Nothing feels the same way

I’m not sleeping lately

Nothing feels the same

Acts of kindness and sorry scenes

You were hiding contempt for the life we lead

This is the slow returning arc of misery

I confided and you agreed

Said we’d fight it, but this is a losing streak

I have become my father years before I’ve even been me

Didn’t feel the fault lines stirring

Couldn’t smell the castle burning

I didn’t see the slow decay, the flakes of paint

A bedroom turns from red to grey

And now her hands to my lips

Telling me I don’t deserve this

Let’s hear another cold cliché, like people change

But a snake will always be a snake

PRE-CHORUS

I’m not sleeping lately

Nothing feels the same way

I’m not sleeping lately

Nothing feels the same

Acts of kindness and sorry scenes

You were hiding contempt for the life we lead

This is the slow returning arc of misery

I confided and you agreed

Said we’d fight it, but this is a losing streak

I have become my father years before I’ve even been me