May I?

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Will I swallow
I will swallow
my pride;
I might as well,
I have nothing to hide.

Will I swallow
I will swallow
my pride.

Oh, but I get the feeling
it won't it be
will it,
be
as easy as I was hoping it might
Oh, but it won't it be
will it,
be
as easy as I was hoping.


(I will or I won't
If I don't I will be willfully wallowing in lies
Will I swallow
I will swallow my pride.)


Yes,
be sure I
will hold any position;
I have confidence in stating
any position to be sure.


Can I
find protection in my documents and still be
spearing, sparing no heart?
Found sparing no quarter?
Explore no joy in killing joy;
revealing moral character-


Have I not:
constructed criticism? marked for removal? insisted on justice? held love gently like the last of the water?

(Will I forgive and swallow my pride;
one is forgone, the other is concluded.)

Will I swallow
I will swallow
my pride;
will I swallow
I will swallow
my pride...

Oh, but it won't it be
will it,
be
as easy as I was hoping it might
Oh, but it won't it be
will it,
be
as easy as I was hoping.


Either it will or it won't
it must be done or we won't
end the cycle of don't do what we don't
I feel moved as if by remote-
yeah, as if by remote.

And:

I will or I won't
If I don't I will be willfully wallowing in pig shit and lies
Why would I do that? I have nothing to hide.
Will I swallow;
I will swallow my pride.

The answer to one question to share
before I die-
Why must we wonder why love must be denied?