Don't Look And It Won't Hurt
Five years of cobwebs
decorate the hallway box
more dust at rest
fills the urn within it
that used to be your father...
Don’t look and it won’t hurt
don’t look and it won’t hurt
Your brother’s been drinking
on a fifteen year bender
so quick to lose his temper
if you ask too many questions
a snake prone upon his shoulder
Don’t look and it won’t hurt
don’t look and it won’t hurt
Your man beside you lies untouched
no communion for years now
still the love is strong between you
but something physical has broken
in desperate need of discussion
Don’t look and it won’t hurt
don’t look and it won’t hurt
I’m always here if you want to talk it through
heaven knows, you need to
I know it’s hard to face it fully
but I’d do my best to help you
That mantra you’ve been living by
it simply isn’t true
the mantra you’ve been swearing by
quietly, it harms you
Don’t look and it won’t hurt
don’t look and it won’t hurt...
(Aug 2019)
Tom
Thu 15th Aug 2019 09:11
Thanks both. I struggled (and am still struggling) with the first verse, I knew what I wanted the first and last line of the verse to be but couldn't quite get the rest of it to work; ash inside an urn inside a box in a hallway: an Inception-level nightmare!