2017.08.26.
Out There
Man is cruelAnd unbearable
In this city you can only trust me
Who else is your friend?
Anyone else would fear you
I take care of you every day with pleasure
Here I can offer you protection
This place is sacred here
Stay safe here
You are deformed
(I am deformed)
Hideously ugly
(Yes, I'm ugly)
That is a crime, people think
Be grateful to God that I
take care of you
(I only have one protector)
People out there see you
As a monster
(I am a monster)
Outside humiliation and pain awaits
(An ugly monster)
Outside
Ridicule and scorn and consternation awaits you
Bow for me
Prove your honor to me
(I bow, sir)
Your sir and
(I bow down)
Follow my advice
Choose
Life here
Safe behind the balustrades
Safe behind stone
I stare at the people down there
I sit hidden here
I just watch for hours
Upon one of the world's biggest cities
I remember those hundreds of faces
No one looks up
Or hears my prayers
All my life I have wondered
What it would be like
Thousand steps
Down there
Out there
If only I could
One day but outside
Outside of this bastion
Unlock that door
Outside
The warm sun caresses
My skin
So I laugh
And I whistle
If I'm allowed
One day out of here
Out there with the farmers
Civilians, outsiders, the people
I hear talking, laughing
I hear them sing
I would be a part there
Of that endless pond
Where I have wanted to
Jump into for so long
Then I will go with them
Then I will stand down there
Outside
To be a day there
Along the Seine
Outside
And in the sunshine
Go outside
just for one day
Then I'll take
My decision
And I hurry
Back
No moping
No rebellion
Really, the bell
Will be tolled
But let me
Out of here for one day