What’s a dream?
If it’s never fulfilled
What’s a heart
If it’s not
beating in rhythm with someone else?

What’s a flower?
If it’s bought as a fake
What’s a life to a father
Who didn’t
see his son finish fourth grade?

What’s a fire?
If it’s started by me
Is it real enough to feel?
Is it real enough to feel?

What’s a ring?
If it’s worn by someone else
What’s a promise if it’s made by two
people who know they can’t honour it?

What’s a car?
If it never starts again
What’s my blood
If it only appears
when I choose to hurt myself?

What’s a ****-up?
If you pretended and put on a show
Just so they could see through you
Just to let them know you were human
Too

What’s a name?
If it’s always misspelled
And the letters don’t fit the head
And the person just writes it himself

What’s one suicide?
Compared to all others
Do they all end up as numbers?
Why did they all have to suffer?

What’s a thing?
That you wish you had
Would it truly make you better?
Would it help you feed the streets?
Would it help you save a kid?
Would it truly make a difference
For others?

Anguish
To torment the soul

Belief
To be unbroken

Calmness
To wish you had

Death
Relief for the dead, grief for the living

Expensive
(Not) desirable

Father
Understanding, notwithstanding  

Guess
To try poorly and fail willingly

Hope
To give others, never yourself

Idiot
To feel ordinary

Joke
To share a friend

Keep
Borrow*

Love
To learn a language for someone

Mother
To repair mistakes

Neglect
To look back at a naked childhood

Opinion
To forget what you used to think

Poetry
To read but never to be spoken

Quarantine
To run the streets

Regret
To forgive but not forget

Stop
To through everything

Truth
To rarely speak, to never hear

Used
To be cast aside for another body

Video
To look but not see again

Whatever
To toast to life and it’s toils

Xo
To send kisses that have no meaning

You
The one that got away

Zero
To begin and end life in the same way