BAGO GIRL

Don’t think
Don’t watch
Don’t ask
Don’t move
Just walk away

Bago girl
Are you listening?
You’ll be twenty now, or more
My child carries no weight, like you did
In other times, you might have been friends

Don’t think
Don’t watch
Don’t ask
Don’t move
Just walk away

Bago girl
Your expression
Still so loaded, ten years on
Says this is me, and I love all that I am
In the dust it begins and ends

Ooh

Don’t think
Don’t watch
Don’t ask
Don’t move
Just walk away

Bago girl
Did they defeat you?
Such dignity in dress and tone
(And painting flowers over uncried tears)
Flowers over all of the greys of your world
(Wondering if the world might stop passing by)
Mine changed while yours never could