You carry a lantern of sadness
Silent pain recast as self-contempt
Your indignation
bleeds into our love
and we are all so drained
I fill myself up with coffee
The magic elixir that soothed
my Mothers' heartbreak
So she could smile
her nails painted
her lipstick on
She wore the nicest shoes
you've ever seen
The overwhelm stacked on her shoulders
She walked a furious beat
in two inch heals down the street
to the bus stop each morning
pummelling the pavement with fury
I wonder what she was thinking?
Now you carry it
Well I don't want it
I won't take it
I'll choose love everyday
to set us all free