INFLICT i know - i've got my useless love i've got too much o | Leftism in the Commonwealth of Toil

INFLICT

i know - i've got
my useless love
i've got too much of everything
everything that no one needs
i've got my useless love

sit alone
hear my heart break,
smoke a cig and
shift my weight
the universe inflicts
pain on us in self defense
the universe inflicts
pain on us in self defense

the dawning horror that what
I'm feeling doesn't hurt, it's just
a great despair at the lack of
the kind of hurt that fuels feeling human
because the symbols of my love are useless
so I've got my useless love

turn on
lie down
look me up and forget my face
a washcloth with which
you rinse yourself of me
make me holy and forget my face,
my love is useless

wisdom comes to us by
the awful grace of god
and the universe inflicts
pain on us in self-defense
in light of events
that are yet to be