An Average Joe like me, like you, like her, like him

A poem about average love with average people, with average lives, in average situations

I don’t know how to feel, I don’t know how to act

If I had that job I might have been sacked

Away from control, away from what I know

I thought I knew you, say it isn’t so

Bon Jovi in retrospect

Could have had some introspect

For him, for me, for the shadow of the nobody

The nobody I’ve come to know

Known in my head but never on show

You think I’m strong that I can take

But I just give and the rest I fake

 

Torn between you and a lie

Want to be no other guy

Just that one that stops time

I’m a lemon that guys pure lime

Take your tonic, you deserve it, I’m only a man when you’re fucked up beyond it

Not a bad thing to ever say, if I did you would no doubt make me pay

Pay into the never ending pit that seems to hold my heart

You can define me, nothing, pointless, art

Just Modern Tate with legs wishing to part

Away from me, I’m onto you. You don’t see anything past one or two

 

Black and white racism in your head

The KKK to you, are never dead

They stay alive within your thoughts

Of day of month of year of me

Of every f*****g court held each century

Around the corner from your approval

Is just another gas disposal

Destroying everything I knew once was

And you, beyond it all, just don’t give a toss

 

Picture perfect in a snap

Every thought from that nap

Crushing the inevitable

Like 2012 but Hollywood dull

No star, no John Cusack

Just me I’m afraid behind each tear

Each thought, each dream, each want, each fear

Without you I’ve come to know

Becoming my Luthor, becoming my own foe

Could you pick me, from the mug shot row?

An archer with an arrow but without a bow

Just another dispensed with, not so interesting, not so brilliant, not so genius, average Joe.