Come To Me Killjoy - Criticize And Control Me
Come to me killjoy
Show me your foul ploy
To rob and steal my joy
Take away my every toy
To wickedly control me
Conform me to your image
Put me in your pitiful box
Teach and tell me how to talk
Mold me until I am no more
Unauthentic as you to the core
Fearful of others and a conformist
Timid, swayable, an alarmist
Impressionable and powerless
Putrid, phony, and sadly joyless
Two-faced and polished for society
Yet privately we know you in reality
Vile, cruel, precocious, and vicious
Self-centered with your own interest
Compare, compete, and never complete
Criticize and critique from head to feet
Exalt thyself above measure, your ego replete
Purport and project an air of superior wisdom
Until people come tenderly to sit at your feet
The public display seems ever so wonderful
But at home your act and talk most dreadful
This evil I can't embrace, nor think to replace
I prefer joy, but you can run the vain race.
"Do this!" "Don't do that." A depressing fact.
Shall I bow and give blood for you to exact
My precious life, soul, and divine inner flow?
Or shall I just move you out and tell you to go?
Perhaps for another year I will endure the show
The vanity, profanity, vulgarity, and tendency
To try to slither close and cleverly control me
On the contrary for I inwardly and outwardly
Must always be free and express myself in liberty
Arise boldly, play carefree, and live authentically
Comparisons and control suit you well, but not me
Because I am a free bird and child playing happily
As for me I enjoy my enthusiasm and spontaneity.
The killjoy removes pleasure in pursuit of conformity
I frankly care not what others around may think of me
Besides this is your proud job and earnest life legacy
Your earthly existence bound by fear and timidity
A spoilsport walking on eggshells throughout eternity.
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