Paikin's Song

Yes Cry If You Wish

Yes cry if you wish
It won't hurt you more
Than your lying tongue
Or purpose bad
For coming here
So let it go
Since I see the need
In your own eyes

No I need not to cry
I only wish not to die
But that seems so likely
Which surely wasn't how
I thought it would be

Does silence mean
Like something else
On your silly Earth
That you would insist
On speaking past
My asking that you not

No it means the same
Here as there
But if I am already gone
To the place
For lies I've told
How can speaking more
So hurt me now

Are you but trying
To tell to me
How I should think
For you have to know
That is but wrong
When much the wrong
You've already done
So briefly back

Charles Petrie