Sexy Zebra
\nVirginia Carraway Stark <\/p>\n
Laying like a sexy zebra
\nI didn’t get no sleep
\nI was thinking heavy thoughts
\nAbout love and sex and death and life
\nAnd all those other things
\nThat keep us zebras up at night
\nI wasn’t able to close my eyes
\nWithout hearing a crashing roar
\nAnd waking up with tears on my cheeks
\nFor all the lost and lonely times
\nI longed for hands around my shoulders
\nI was thinking in black and white
\nDid you know that zebras start out black?
\nAnd that they only get their white stripes
\nAs they grow up on their way?
\nIn the same way I was thinking dark thoughts
\nI was wishing for things that could never be
\nFragments that make me much more complicated
\nThan I ever wished I had to be
\nAll I ever wanted was to love
\nto be loved
\nI never wanted to cry in the night
\nBut like a little zebra
\nGrowing into my white stripes
\nI became a little bit less sad
\nBecause I thought
\nand… I think… about the love I gave
\n…the love I give
\n…the love was always there
\nNo matter what others think
\nAbout the zebra big or small
\nAnd if they think that zebras come conceived
\nIn stripes from the start of them all
\nI know that I love
\nThat love is all I know
\nThat the fragments that shard and break
\nAnd hurt those barefoot who walk around
\nI am hidden for survival
\nI am in love with light
\nEven when I have to hide in the shadows
\nFrom the big bad predators
\nThat still stalk and walk
\nTo this day
\nSexy zebra
\nNot enough sleep
\nBut hell; I always look good enough to eat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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