Never Kid a Kidder

Never Kid a Kidder

You can smile and play your game

you can talk like you know the score

but I have walked that road before

and I see the truth behind your eyes

You think I will swallow your sugar words

and not taste the steel underneath

you think I will miss the way you stand

ready to turn before the storm hits

I grew up hearing half truths and lies

learning how to read a room in a breath

watching hands as much as mouths

counting what‘s missing not what was said

The world teaches hard if you listen

I learned the rules before I could write

to take what’s mine and guard it well

and know when the cards are marked

So keep your tricks for someone else

I can smell a bluff before you blink

and I will call it with nothing in my hand

just the look that says I know

Never kid a kidder

we write the ending before you start

and I have already written yours