The Gray

This is what we're told

It looks so simple from the

Black side

The white side

It's never meant to change

You see it's written on this page

Tell that to someone who's broken

Desperate to rewrite the past

But pages are just made of paper

Nothing can last

But this is what we're told

They strip us down to diagnosis

And trauma

The things that we have seen

But there is so much more to me

But it takes

It takes

Tell that to someone who suffers

It's something that runs in their veins

Tell them the wiring's faulty

No hope for change

Black and white answers

For every question, every shade

But this is what we're told

It's absolutes

And nothing

Sees in between all the lines we have drawn

But that's where we've lived all along

And they take, and they take our power away

When we ignore all the shades of gray

I cannot give you the answer

The only thing certain is change

But black and white cannot define me

Even our matter is gray

I smashed apart my own skull

Ripped out the wires of old

I saw the gray and decided

I fill the fractures with gold

I filled the fractures with gold