I’ve been searching the mirror
And every day it is a new face
A little older than the old face
You are not welcome here
And every day I use a new tool
A little sharper than the old tool
Cause scratch the surface doesn’t cut it
You are not welcome here
You’d think the feeling was familiar
With common cause could come an instinct
But you just don’t seem to get it
You are not welcome here
You signed up for the mission
And signed on with your children in tow
Committing crimes of omission
You are not welcome here
Starved on redaction
Yet grown fat on the fiction
Still hungry for action
You are not welcome here
And now you’ve come to convince me
Or at the very least to judge me
I say “you & what army?”
You are not welcome here
And now you’ve come to the table
And pretend that you’ll listen
But it’s clear that you’re wounded
And we both know how this ends
I’m still searching the mirror
And every day it’s still a new face
A little older than the old face
And I’m still using the same tools
Using the same fools
Losing the same wars
But I’ll draw you all close to me
I’ll keep you all close to me
But I need to keep you closer still
closer still
Closer
Still
You are not welcome here
And now you’ve come to the table
I’ll pretend that you’ll listen
But it’s clear that you’re wounded
And we both know how this ends
©2015 rob hinkal