1,000 Words of Lash

We cannot pay you in laughter, we will try a smile.

We’ve felt the pain of 1,000 words of lash.

Keeping to oneself is graceful, all the while,

My confidence poisoned with hate like soda ash.

A fall and a shove, exiled to the mental isle.

In a safe space we are unsheltered in the splash.

We cannot pay you in laughter, we will try with a smile.

We’ve felt the pain of 1,000 words of lash.

Get me out, misfortune in your lifestyle.

Always unappealing, and gone in a flash.

Always, you are no fun, you are not brash.

We cannot pay you in laughter, we will try to smile.

We’ve felt the pain of 1,000 words of lash.