Family for friends

If family‘s a metaphor

I‘ll never feel at home

If make it there in time, they‘ll die

Before I‘ll be alone

And if family are friends we choose

Then why have they all left?

Have they heard me speak for far too long

Until their voice bereft?

Did I push them all away from me

Or was it time and space

Was it things I said or should have said

To keep them in their place?

And if everyone lives far away

Then why should I extend

Any grudge or invitation

If I know my life will end?

And to whom it may concern or not

I couldn‘t fathom less

Every time I speak in song to you

You wouldn‘t feel impressed

And you wouldn‘t know the end of the world

If it hit you in the face

And it never left a trace 

Lo behold! You‘re out of place