I want you to tell me about every person you've ever been in love with.
Tell me why you love them,
then tell me why they loved you.

Tell me about a day in your life you didn't think you'd live through.
Tell me what the word home means to you
and tell me in the way that i'll know your mother's name
just by the way you describe your bedroom
when you were eight.

See, i want to know the first time you felt the weight of hate,
and if that day still trembles beneath your bones

Do you prefer to play n puddles of rain
or bounce in he belliesf snow?
And if you were to build a snowman ,
would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms
or would you leave your snowman armless
for the sake of being harmless to the tree?
And if you would,
would you notice how that tree weeps for you
because your snowman has no arms to hug you
every time you kiss him on the cheek?

Do you kiss your friend on the cheek?
Do you sleep beside them when they're sad?
even if it makes your lover mad?
Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion
or just the timid motion of a fragile art trying to beat away its pain?

See, I wanna ow what you think of your first name
and if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mother joy
when she spoke it for the first time.

I want you tell me all the ways you've been unkind.
Tell me all the ways you've been cruel.
Tell me, knowing i often picture Gandhi at ten years old
beating up little boys at school.

If you were walking by a Chemical plant
where smokestacks were filling the sky with dark black clouds
would you holler "Poison! Poison! Poison!" really loud
or would you whisper
"that cloud looks like a fish, and that cloudlooks like fairy!"

Do you belive that Mary was really virgin?
Do you believe that Moses really parted the sea?
And if you don't believe in miracles, tell me-
how would you explain the miracle of my life to me?

See, I wanna knowif you belive in any god
or if you believe in many gods
or better yet
what gods believe in you.
And for all the times that you've knelt before the temple of your self,
have the prayers you asked come true?
And if they didn't, did you feel denied?
And if you felt denied, denied by who?

I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you're feeling good.
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you're feeling bad.
I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty
could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.

If you ever reach enlightenment.
will you remember how to laugh?

Have you ever been a song?
Would you think less of me
If i told you i've lived my entire life a little off-key?
And i'm not nearly as smart as my poetry
i just plagirize the thoughts of the people around me
who have learned the wisdom of silence.

Do you believe concrete perpetuates violence?
And if you do-
I want you tell me of a meadow
where my skateboard will soar.

See, i wanna know more than what you do for a living.
I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving,
and if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes.
I wanna know if you blend sometimes
from other people's wounds,
and if you dream sometimes
that this life is just a ballon-
that if you wanted to, you could pop,
but you never would
'cause you'd never want it to stop.

If a tree fell in the forest
and you were the only one there to hear --
if its fall to the ground didn't make a sound,
would you panic in fear that you didn't exist,
or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

And lastly, let me ask you this:

if you and i went for a walk
and the entire walk, we didn't talk--
do you think eventually, we'd .... kiss?

No., wait.
That's asking to much --
after all,
this is only our first date

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*i love this part :'3