Shifting Responsibility - Run, Forever

On the cover of a magazine

There are 15 ways to blame

Or shift responsibility

It’s easier to believe

We’re not inheriting our parents' mistakes

Today I felt like dying

Or calling an old friend

In search of consolation

You just offer prayer

You can pin every feeling to a scripture

Every word to a line of a hymn

It’s our duty to control and to be controlled

You were made to believe it’s your place to lay beneath him

Close your eyes and fall asleep so easily at night

While I lay awake with flippant thoughts of different ways to die

I can try to avoid ever speaking

Stay in bed for my everlasting life

Just believe in my soul

That it could save me

And just float like an angel from the window

Or to the ground below