What it Takes to Do Miracles

[jamezilla1]

Now that we’re broken up

I’ve gotten rid of my crappy job,

and I’m going to work at living out my dreams.

I freed that section of my budget to expand my means.

Now I fill blank pages by the reams and reams.

Now that we’re broken up

I’ve redirected a load of time that’s been spared,

and solved all those worthy causes

about which you purported to care.

I tried church again

since I repossessed my own soul that was bared.

Now that we’re broken up

I cured hanta, SIDS, SARS, AIDS, ebola,

and saved kids in Angola…

Senegal, Sierra Leone,

Cameroon, and back home,

And, uh …

Now that we’re broken up

I chased all the snakes out of Virginia

and I’ll get around to those damn mosquitoes

if you let me continue (continya)
I’ve become a miracle of science and math

once I let go of all the terrible wrath

I’ve learned the nature of magic

by releasing everything tragic

Now that we’re broken up

I looked up how to build stars

so I could make one named after you

Then I invented the black hole

so you could know what it’s like to get ripped apart, too.

I’ll let reality be that you’d get spit out the other side

because I’d rather you go

and learn and grow

than have to have died,

Because I couldn’t have done any of this shit

if I didn’t learn to dispose of my pride.

June 15. 2019