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Gray to Green

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Father was just a rumor,
Mother lived at two jobs;
a half-dozen aunts who came and went
and never spared the rod.

The men I knew seemed to live on the stoops,
their days were posing and drink.
They were going to or coming from jail or a war,
and trying hard not to think.

Where was I gonna go?
How was I gonna change my scene?
What could I know
to change my world from gray to green?

My best friend started huffin’ –
faded away like paint in the air.
The world didn’t seem to miss him,
just ground on like he was never there.

My brother played ball but never had a chance,
he never could learn to read.
From a crowded classroom to a seat at the bar,
playground hero ain’t much to be.

Where were they going to?
How were they gonna change their scene?
What could they know
to change their world from gray to green?

Now I’m just a rumor --
I’m better off less known.
While prison teaches my brother how to hate every day
for the crime of nowhere to go.

The preachers call on us all to forgive,
the world just wants revenge.
I’m just lookin’ for a place to lay low,
crawlin’ my way West.

Going to I don’t know -
somewhere I’m praying I will see
an open hand who knows
how to trade my gray world for green.



© Terry Heislen, bmi

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from Demonstrator, released August 1, 2010

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