Private Thoughts in the New Fade, Part 2

i think it's a good thing
to not know everything
of what people are thinking

what would you think
if you knew how close to the brink
some people who to flushing you down the sink?

it's a sinking feeling to know that those who know you best
are sometimes willing to throw it all away without even a test
just because of one or two things that hit too close to the chest

thump your chest if this was never you
if your face did not turn red in hew
and someone face you never once thought to chew

in fact, if you chew on it
you'd probably admit
that everyone you know has given you a fit

it's the fitness of our intelligence
that we consider our thoughts hence
so that we don't throw each other on a fence

fencing with our views is what makes us what we are
rather than as dense as tar
so that we can all go far

it's what we do that helps us go that distance
but only if we consider our thoughts and don't act like infants
and do our best to behave with eloquence

Private Thoughts in the New Fade

what the hell are private thoughts in the New Fade?
because it seems as if everyone has to know everything now
and they need to share it and have it shared,
all of it, all the time, and if you're not doing that
then there's something wrong with you,
something abnormal and strange
and not to be trusted, as if you're
a secret deviant and perhaps serial killer
waiting to happen; and the thing that's stranger still
is that hardly anyone actually wants to hear anything interesting,
so that if you have something more than the mundane to say
you will be ignored in this great social imperative,
if you go off-message, if you contradict, if you challenge
what even the rebellious are saying