Neither/Nor

When I was a little boy

I'd scream at vague, misty nights

Yet breathe out smoke with no fire

I'd become one with what I was scared of

I fell in love with the in-between

Coloring in the margins

Yet the romance of the undefined

Was a threatening lie in their eyes

They say

Oh, who is he?

Nobody.

Hello, who is he?

Nobody.

I'm not at peace with dying alone

But I am not at war either

No, I am planted on the shore knowing

The ashen tide may or may not rise

Cuz in the valley of the sure

You cannot be neither/nor

You're fated to pick a door

Only the lonely are lukewarm

They say

Oh, who is he?

Nobody

Hello, who is he?

Nobody

Is it a ghost

Is it a plane

Is it a shiver

Down your spine

Is it delusion

Is it confused

Is it contusion of a hard-earned truth?

No, it's nobody

Nobody

Nobody

Nobody