There Is A Dead Rat In The Swimming Pool

DOMEN LOMBERGAR
There Is A Dead Rat In The Swimming Pool, 2005
Limited edition canvas print (signed)
EDITION SOLD OUT
60 x 40 cm

Edition of 5, 0 prints available
Price: 340 EUR
Original: SOLD

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I see you smiling
Wanting me to smile back
I see your fake joy
That someday will be shattered
I see your innocent perspective of life
And it makes me cringe inside

Do you know what it’s like
to cry yourself to sleep?
Do you know what it’s like
to feel so defeated?
Do you know what it’s like
to feel pain and sorrow and guilt?
For I am here and I am tired.
I am thirsty but I am too weak
Everything is so different now.
I worry and I cry and I break,
Because I am not as strong as you,
But are you as strong as you seem,
or have you just never been hurt?
Do you really understand?

Because in your world of pretend
In your world of all these naive lies
No one ever feels pain or regret
and everyone is always happy
When will you wake up to reality and see
that every day people are hurting
and it’s not always as easy as you make it sound.
When will you see,
that not everyone has been delt your perfect life
When will you finally understand,
That though I am trying to please you
I am really breaking inside?

Poem by Theodora HermesModel: LeChat