Pardon Me

[Lightning Rod]

Pardon Me

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
as an infant, I had colic
until I learned that it's not all about me, me, me.
am I doing something wrong?

I cut my teeth on live TV
Zorro was my mascot
I could carve a Z on every adult's belly
am I doing something wrong?

In kindergarten I discovered girls
girls that weren't my mother or aunts or sisters
mystery girls with bangs and braids and curiosity
did I do something wrong?

I lied, I'm still obsessed with myself
I get the colic now and then
when the world is living in my belly
am I doing something wrong?

An alchemist can transmute
success to failure, failure to success
I learned science in public school
am I doing something wrong?

My romances succeed, my marriages fail
the triumph of ideas over execution
skyrocket enterprises eventually fall to the ground
am I doing something wrong?

Doing it wrong teaches us to do it right
pain and failure are the final teachers
still I try and ask
What Did I Do Wrong?

[Doreen Peri]

I donno. I'm too busy trying to figure out what I did wrong to try to help someone else figure out what they did wrong. *shrug* I suspect we all did a lot wrong. Forgive yourself because you know not what you did. Or if you do know, forgive yourself anyway. But for god's sake quit doing it!

[SmileGRL]

maybe it's not wrong. maybe it's just life.