What we learned

What we learned

Wish I knew

when I was younger
that humans have many faces

that we act out many roles
in different times, different places
that’s the nature of our souls
it doesn’t mean that we’re fakin

when we’re hurt
it forms a hole
that’s when 

defenses awaken.

Wish they taught us
bout projection
about trauma
our protections
how a lifetime
of rejection
creates deep scars
and defenses.

Maybe then I’d have avoided
many conflicts and offenses
and friendships that were voided
cause I couldn’t handle the tenseness

jumped fences instead of face it
crossed oceans to escape
found new brothers to relate with
but ended with the same fate.

If they’d have taught it
I’d have learned it
things like patience
and discernment

instead they drilled us
and they filled us
with sterile facts
that never ferment.

So our generation’s
unwinding the
knotted thread wasting
and blinding us

realigning stuff
redefining “us”
to birth a brand
new kind of love