From the Little That You Knew

Trapped in the burdens
Of the roles your parents made you take
And how did you handle danger
How all did you cope
From the little that you knew,
How the world assigns us an identity
That can completely steal
One’s identity
Clear out of the ball park.

How unreasonable
Is it to have to assume
That your home life
Was the normal
From the little that you knew

Hiding and isolating
In the sanctity of a closet
Or ice skating every day
On the thinnest pieces of ice
Knowing something had to crack
And wondering if being explosive
Would change the scenery
From the little that you knew
You knew something wasn’t right

So we learn to shut the emotions off
Like hot water from rusty old pipes
We head for the darkness
Far from the protruding sounds
Hide away until the revolution is over
Or at least, the next battle lost
From the little that you knew
You understood what it would be like
To be beside yourself

From the little that you knew
Cannon balls exploded
Changing the tiny, child, terrain of your life
Just in the flick of a match
How hard it must be
To live in perpetual fear
Of annihilation