Maybe I Have a Black Soul


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Sébastien Pellé's avatarPoésie pour le temps courant / Poetry for Current Times

Maybe I Have a Black Soul

You told me I was different
You told me I was crazy
You told me I’m amazing
You told me I’m so funny

You seem to feel some compassion
You seem to feel some pity
You seem to feel embarrassment
For this weird being of me
But most of all this restriction
I can see in your eyes like a disharmony

Maybe I have a black soul
I can shout in the night and drive you laughing to dawn
Maybe I have a black soul
It’s a movie you can’t move to the end till it’s done
Maybe I have a black soul
You can take a piece of it if you feel vulnerable

You said that maybe twice
I have a special way to think you said
You said I might be trapped
In a false cocoon of me

You told me I…

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