Numb - Ugress, Christine Litle

I have my dubious motives

For my fatuous friends

I have a need to be needed

And feel superior again

And I’d rather be shallow

Blind deaf and dumb

I can’t afford the risk of

Feeling anything but numb

(oh no! — shhh! can you see me? can you see me? don’t come too close to my

exposure — I can’t expose myself -not to anyone — do you hear me?

— not to anyone)

And I am such a coward

And I am such a fake

I like too keep my pulse down

To soothe this beating ache

(oh no! — shhh! can you see me? can you see me? don’t come too close to my

exposure — I can’t expose myself -not to anyone — do you hear me?

— not to anyone)

I have my dubious motives

For my fatuous friends

I have a need to be needed

And feel superior again

And I’d rather be shallow

Blind deaf and dumb

I can’t afford the risk of

Feeling anything but numb