How To Be Hank

[J Hillenburg]

How To Be Hank



You bear that old cliche proudly, and without shame,
but you should believe that better than you have tried.
You heard that voice so lonesome, complex, and plain,
resentful that you are still here and somehow survived.

You peddled your emotions for next to nothing or less,
and that gift you have? Well, let me be brutal and frank -
You think you’re deep, but you’re just sullen and depressed,
no idea of how to be yourself, much less how to be Hank.

You cloaked yourself in a veil of sorrow and sang so soft,
and you followed his life for months and years without end.
You were carried by clouds of unknowing raising you aloft,
that cliche, that myth, a crutch upon which to rest and depend.

That singular voice, it resounds in your ears, and still shapes
every beat of your heart, it stands among the highest rank.
And its power can ensure the heart both a respite and escape
from all those dreams and distasteful ideas of how to be Hank.

[lizzytysh]

". . . and distasteful ideas of how to be Hank." Again, the summation of obsession with trying to be someone you're not.