Life trading
Why bother waiting
I give it thoughtlessly
For just a minute of your time
To explain this disguise of mine
Pulled over my face
It was only ever a likeness
I died long ago
Never known, simply unidentified
I wouldn’t have it any other way
He couldn’t endure it, what else is left to say
Except maybe I couldn’t abide his endurance
So I took the knowing right out of his hands
So I am just a liar
Unable to keep up with this life’s demands
So I am a coward
Narrow and known to be selfish
I am every awful, disloyal tendency humanity ever undertook
And that’s really how I know
I can promise you a life
So broken, so full of holes
So If I can just have that time to explain, if you just listen
You’ll accept my rendition
This life is all yours
Stretching further and farther from my fate
That issued from my very core.
-Jennifer Barajas
A Dead Language 