Did You Let Me Know?

Did You Let Me Know?

By: Husam (Sam) Salman

Did somebody say the road was easy?

I’d question you.

As you stand there sucking your Spirit,

Each breath closer to death,

Wondering why some people behave

As though they are entitled - EVERYTHING?

As I live and breathe…

The airs you display for the sake of

Being seen a certain way

Being noted to hang with the “right” sort

With those can afford only what you can afford

…If not more…

Your care and consideration is only for yourself

Welcome to America

This is the land of the broken hearted

It’s my home too!

I’d appreciate you understand that I am not like you

That I don’t know what you know

That I don’t have the instincts

That you think superior to those of my own

Here we stand in the same room

Looking at one another in odds

In the hope that I’ll one day love you again, “friend”.

…Because right now, I don’t…

I know what you say and how you talk about…everyone

And how everyone talks about you

It’s odd to hear the tree huggers talk so much shit

Then turn around and hug the same shit

I didn’t ask to be a topic of your feculence

Here I am trying to love, you, him, her, everyone

To be your friend

You, standing there in your illusory catty Queen-dom

Enough shit coming out of your mouth

You could fertilize your fate of solitude

…and you’re going to too!!

I eliminate the salt from my diet

It’s the thing that prevents seeds from spouting

From the soil to even stand a chance

Ironic effect of ‘this’ type of shit

Sorry – But I’m all stocked up on the useless

…I own a PC (laptop), an iPhone 4S and a Ford (NOT a hybrid) …

So you can save your ‘face’-time for someone else

I just saw how I’m living

Moreover, how I’m hating

How I realized that I’m hating

Because I have haters in my life hating

Time for a master cleanse a detox –

One that’s the most effective I’ve done in years

…Unfriend…

I’m in the pursuit of a better me

And if I’m bitching this much about you

It’s not because I’m bad,

It’s because you’re pissing me off

Perhaps I have expectations of people

Perhaps I’m crass

Perhaps I’m too honest

Perhaps I’m able to see a flaw in something

Perhaps I shouldn’t say anything

Perhaps I say something

Perhaps you get upset

Perhaps not

…you might already know me, and my ways…

Did you say anything

To me?

Did you let me know?

Did you bring it to my attention?

Did you think the silent treatment taught me anything?

Did you think I cared?

The funny thing here,

The REAL absolution…I didn’t know

And I can’t make effort to change something

I know nothing about

If you don’t say anything

I don’t know

If I’m unaware

I will be upset at unnecessary side glances

Bitch, say something – I don’t need games

You don’t need to call me out

At a bar

At a club

At a party

Do me a solid and pull me aside

And let me know

What I don’t know.