Surrender

If I were a country, you would be a journalistAnd because you are not anempty-headed bloke out for a quick fixbut investigative, committed, idealist,I would have shot you down a streetand left you to bleed.

If I were a country and you my journalistit would be a civil war, one too many,revolutions—changes in governments.I would have jailed youand kept you on CCTV.

If I were a country and you my journalistI would have played a wait-and-watch gameto see who wears the othersleep-deprived akin to a Russian sleep experiment.

But the more you stare, the more beautiful someone becomes, remember?

Many passed the cellars of my mindfew, the cellars of my heart.

I would blink first.

I would give infrom dictatorship to democracy.

If I were a country and you my journalistI would let you run a free press and media

to change the face of anentire nation.