confidence is nervous
and caught smoking
nerves are anxious
they have started joking

your conversation bored me today
i dreamt the time away
i have never worked so hard
here we are falling apart

nothing has surprised me
and in your solo booth
i am not convinced
that you have the truth
to me, you are intellectual looters

i am soft dreams
and jagged edges
i am twitching curtains
covering freshly cut hedges

always be –
somewhere that others –
think i should not be
some say it is isolation
some say it is out to sea

does anyone, can anyone understand
others may ask you to wear a badge
but you may see it as a cage
and linked to those feelings of feeling sad