I Know You Miss Kansas City

You were always a good actor

But you don’t act like you used to

Don’t lie

I can see the pain in your eyes

Your silent cries,

Your pleas for help

And I know in their eyes

The numbers scream

You’re not enough

But they don’t know 

How you are so broken yet benevolent

Or how one of the last times I saw you truly happy

Was when we pressed all 28 buttons on the elevator at the hotel in Kansas City,

The city we left you in,

The city you left you in

As I see you in class, at lunch, at my own house, 

I know you were happier 

716 miles away

In the end of May

I know you were happier

With all six of us together

Away from the vitriolic numbers and cruel words

You were always a good actor

But I know you were happier

Away from home.