In Mind Sight

What if it wasn't true, all of this---
What if sadness wasn't a state of mind---

Maybe if I believed a little bit more in the right to frown,
we could turn this whole thing upside down---

That's what they say, don't they,
don't they---

I think I got a little bit of goodness left in my toes,
and in my fingers,
and up here in my tired eyes

And I had a little bit of anger in my stomach,
in my gut,
in the synapses struggling to survive me---

I didn't know I was something to overcome,
that my mind frame was minus borders,
that my state of mind was overstated

What if we were mindless about all of this---
What if we were happy and we didn't know it,

but what if we just stopped with all the what
and we started if

if only---