DON'T CALL ME

(Don't Want To See You)

Don't call me, I don't want to see you

Yesterday you called, but I let it drop

Nine times you called, nine times I ignored

Was at a meeting, I was taking minutes

But I was glad to be occupied

Cause never-mind, 

I didn't want to talk to you

You always take, you hardly give.

I knew for a fact that you wanted me

Again to help you with something—

Didn't have to know what,

That's just how you roll,

And life is like fishroll.

But I have my own things to solve

And my own life to live

I wasn't born for you to live,

I'm a grown man, I'm not a child.

Don't mistake my silence cause I'm not wild

I opened a gate, you shoved it wide

I learned my lessons like a flash card.

There's a fear that perhaps I'm proud

That what goes around may come around

That perhaps, I block my blessings

But with you, I learned hard lessons.

You said you don't like being a bother

Well, you are.

It's time to put that into practice,

Don't plan your life around mine

Makes me feel like I'm wasting mine.

Can remember 

All the times I came through for you

All what I passed— through all my troubles,

You came out smelling like bubbles

While I was buried under the rubble.

It's painful you don't keep your word,

You make me cry out, "O Lord!"

You criticize those you're better than

But that makes you worse.

You criticize those worse than you

But you're not really better than.

But I can't deny the good times,

Despite the broken promises,

I know for a fact you love me,

But I'm not bound to you.

So I'll remember the good times

And cherish them.

What I took from you,

And cherish them.

But for now, please don't call me;

Things are hectic and difficult,

And I don't want to see you.

You make me stay away,

Whenever I'm there,

You remind me why I stay away

Always an errand for me today

Something to do tomorrow

I keep silent in sorrow.

Let me live, let me breathe

You can be difficult to swallow

Don't consider me callow

I'm a grown man, I'm not a child.

It's not goodbye, but stay away,

I'll still come around again

But for now, please understand

Like I want to hide underground

It's not goodbye, but I'll stay away...

© el-iyanu