Lay teacher caught my breath Before I had the chance to overthrow her bold statement My bleeding innocence Severely mind-raped by the dictator of my childhood days An everlasting solace The silent revelations of a thousand more people hurt me When clawing at my bare-chest side elevation destroyed The sown lips of convenient ignorant amnesia The dumb silence of conveniently ignorant amnesia C.I.A. Skin graft of epic proportions Moral implications voiding actions Rusting deliverance The flux of childhood sorrow Bores deep in the subtle cortex And defies reverence Lay down, lay down, lay Lay down, lay down, lay