Simple but not-Hadley

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They say we're confusing;

They can't figure us out,

Like we're a puzzle

That can't really be solved.


They say we're a mystery

With too many misleading clues,

As if we're trying

To send them in the wrong direction.


So I try to be simple,

Open book, clear as day

Honest, real, transparent,

Treat them like simple beings, and be one too.


Yet there's always

That exception to the rule,

Nine days simple

One day complicated.


Like the backs turned

Except Friday,

Then look me

In the eye,


Like the feeling

Of being a wall,

Till they seem to look right through you

Like you're invisible.


Like you're still there

When you thought

The tide had left hours ago

But feel it coming up again.


Like a black cat

Nothing means anything

Till you make it something

Or they do. 

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