50 Shades of Orange

 

I feel like I’m so far away

Looking at people’s hair reminds me of the distance

Between me and myself

If there’s even anything like myself in me

Time has punished me to be stronger

And at the same time rewarded me 

With the fact that I left my reality

And that I became someone else

In a world where everything is orange

You’re blinded from those that aren’t

And as much as I want to open your eyes

I can‘t; because they’re not mine

And as much as we want to save each other

From hell, from stupidity, from going too far

We can’t; because we don’t feel like

We must be saved

Because we both feel safe in where we are

Like I feel safe with doing my thing

And you with doing yours

We both don’t know that we’re in danger

Because there is no danger

Because there is nobody coming at us

Because we’re doing no harm

Because we mean well

Because I let you live with your reality

Because I respect your choices

Because I still love you, though differently

Because you don’t let me live with my reality

We’re still humans in the end

That need to adapt to survive

And though in your world my good is your bad

Doesn’t mean I’m that person you think I am

I just merely want to live my own life

I never changed inside

But I’m sorry that you saw me

As the image in your fantasy

The orange you see

In the orange life you live

Has blinded you from seeing

Me, as a human being