Never Change - Obongjayar

I miss running round in the garden

Chasing dragonflies in the high sun

Screaming till we lose our voices

Hope we never lose our smiles

Remember when it’d rain and we’d dance outside

We didn’t have much but we have life

To me that is all that matters

Time was just a stranger then

Stay like this

Forever

Never change

I wish the world would spin more slowly

I don’t recognise myself

Everyone around me’s changing

Colours fade to black and white

I’ll do all I can just to stay alive

And e no pretty

Look away

Look away

I write so you can know our stories

I fight so you don’t have to run

Stay like this

Forever

Never change

The world is failing all around you

N' Everything is upside down

N' Everyday you start to notice

Everyday it breaks my heart

You’re too precious all your questions are parables that don’t make sense

You wish that you were big like me

I wish that I could see like you

Everyday we thread on open caskets

My sky is grey my air is blue

These motherfuckers took away my innocence

I won’t let them do the same to you

Stay

That way

Never