This Is Not Love

Status is imagination
A make-believe evocation
To compare
A media veil, a glamour
I didn’t want to wear
Leave me to my dreams
My own answers
This isn’t love≠
Charmed as it may seem (when I wake I feel)
This is not my dream (the gap between me and everything)
Making it seem (love is)
That sleep’s (a star a million miles away)
A million…
Mother, she taught you how to hustle
Daddy taught you to use your muscle
And you burned what you learned
Leave me to my dreams
My own answers
This isn’t love≠
Here’s the line
Here’s a dangerous mind
It’s all media
A fashion flair
A glamour that
I didn’t want to wear