DON'T TRY

Tonight

Here in this room

We will try

We might win it all

But we already know

How the results fail

Those fractions of miracles

Futures, broken off pieces of our pasts

Our best songs banned

From our better selves

By our best minds

We stare down fate, declare

We don’t like you

But you don’t need us

Just rocks that listen plainly

Thoughtfully blank witnesses

Who can’t die alive

To all they missed

Who wait with lost excitement

For the past they can’t remember

Our past

Your life

Their future

Not tonight