don't ask

you ask me, how ya doing?
but you don't really care
your eyes pass right through me
without seeing something's there

do you know what you are asking?
there is responsibility behind those words
didn't you know that?
didn't you know that when you slapped those words across my face?
they left welts behind that stung as you looked away
you looked away!
unable to see what my eyes were ready to scream
you looked away!
to blind yourself of the responsibility of what you asked
if only you knew what those words have touched...
but you looked away
unwilling to read it in my face, in my actions
the dog is not blind
he discerns me with those undaunting eyes
waiting with those attentive ears
knows nothing of small talk
but incapable he could not ask
else i'd tell him.

how ya been?
i want to tell you
but your deaf ears silence me.

how are you?
i want to tell you
but you stab me with your darting eyes

so i reply that i'm fine
and you believe that's how i am
if i told you how it really was
forget it - you don't give a damn.

don't ask then look away,
in fact, just D O N' T A S K !