Batter

My tongue may slip

And over words I trip

But that’s not the bit

I think matters


Cos conversation clatters

It makes and shatters

Leaves you complete and in tatters

Let’s speak


The peak of my speech

And the trench of my deeps

Won’t ever reach

Unless you get over


I think it brings us closer

Every abuse hits like it’s spose ta

Before make up throws ya

Into embraces kindness cannot


Got something to say, got a lot

Intended to shock

Want you completely knocked

And broken


Ain’t redeeming like you was hoping

Ain’t doormattery like when I was open

Ain’t nothing like your inner thoughts spoken

I’m over good impressions


Never learn any of my own lessons

Preach, always pressing

Spite God for the blessing

And only more stupid with age


Because my language has changed

So has the subject of my rage

Artless verdict turned my own face

But you’ve replaced that nicely


So I come to this spritely

Beat it dead only nightly

You’ve had enough, and rightly

But how to make gold dust of shit?


I think I’m so prophetic

Yet overthinking’s pathetic

And that’s not the bit

I think batters.



by Lyric Deep.

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