touch

[droqen]

you touched me
YOU TOUCHED ME
i didn't know the rules of the game
you're playing with me

[droqen]

you touched me
YOU TOUCHED ME
i've never been more
afraid of not knowing
the rules of the game
you're playing with me

[droqen]

we're all paintings in our galleries;
our own curators,
our own security guards.
art thieves.

[droqen]

there's no school i've ever been to where they teach
self-sovereignty

[droqen]

what do you let in
to your body? 101 doesn't exist
and i let it all in, receiving, a receptacle, a site for reception

i'm a bad student, i thought
i'm not learning what i should learn

(they're not teaching
what my body needs
to know, i know now)

[droqen]

you touched me
YOU TOUCHED ME

you were playing the game
   and i only tried
   to play along too.

you were playing with me
   and i only tried
   to guess at the rules
   to escape them
   to push.

you were playing
   and i only tried
   not to freeze
   not to show i was clueless
   not to cry.

you weren't kind, were you?
   and i only tried
   to imagine a world in which you were kind
   to me.