Pusher
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If you're willing to wait for the love of your life
If you are patient enough to wait for your true love to come along

Please wait by the line
Then wait for them, rather than searching for love elsewhere

And you know dispersive prisms rainbow
You have seen how rainbows are formed by refracting light through a prism

But my native optimism isn't broken by the light
But despite seeing how things can be broken down into their basic elements, my inherent optimism remains unshaken

The idea of life without company fell suddenly
The thought of being alone in life suddenly hit me

It crashed through the ceiling on me
It hit me hard like a physical object breaking through the ceiling

And pinned me to the pine
And left me feeling trapped and helpless

And layer upon layer of hope and doubt
And as time passes, my feelings continue to be conflicted with both hope and doubt

Will crush bones to oil in time
Which will eventually wear me down and break me

Are you a pusher or are you a puller?
Do you take charge and push for what you want, or do you wait for things to come to you?

I pull the weight towards me
I am the type to wait for things to come to me

And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward
And I don't have a particular passion or drive to move forward without someone else's help

Unless I have a woman pushing me
Unless I have a woman by my side to motivate and support me

A canopy of red-billed quelea
A large flock of red-billed quelea birds

Passed over the blue
Flew over the sky

A five hour flock, not one dives down
They flew for five hours straight without stopping

To tell you the truth
To be honest

As night falls, a quelea crawls
As night comes, one of the birds falls to the ground

And whispers on his last wings
And makes a final, dying sound before it passes away

So abundant are we, left alone I shall be
There are so many of us, but no one will be here with me in my final moments

But a waited phone never rings
And sometimes, the phone never rings even though you've been waiting for it to

We could hold hands for fifteen minutes in the sauna
We could spend time together in an intimate setting

We could hold hands for a pool length under water
We could share a moment of intimacy, even underwater

I can push and pull
I can be both assertive and passive

Her
With the woman I love