Still Human

Gwyneth Covey

Tags: Watch What Happens Winter2025

I was not primed for piety

I learned it on my own

I was raised a vagrant 

Playing all alone 

I am the shadow of a goth child 

I’m a waste of a witch 

I see the star signs smile 

And I wanna know every inch of him

If I had a new philosophy

Nietzsche would’ve been so proud of me 

I’d paint God is Dead on the world for all to see 

It seems to be taking so long to be sanctified 

I’m still just a shadow of my intended design 

I have always been so bright, ahead of my age 

But it seems I am still human and default-destined for the grave 

I don’t seem meant to be a wife

Even less a mother

Just a creature of strife 

Flying from one passion to another 

I am more Francesca than Esther 

Much more Delilah than Deborah 

It seems to be taking so long to be sanctified 

I’m still just a shadow of my intended design 

I have always been so bright ahead of my age 

But it seems I am still human and default-destined for the grave 

I am more Francesca than Esther 

Much more Delilah than Deborah 

Much more Bathsheba than Mary 

Look at me I am Dido not Phoebe

I seem to be cut from the wrong cloth 

To make a woman of God

I seem to be mismatched 

with a virtuous lot

I am made to burn out 

and be dead when I am young

Drink hard to bury old scars 

And stay out with rockstars 

It seems to be taking so long to be sanctified 

I’m still just a shadow of my intended design 

I have always been so bright ahead of my age 

But it seems I am still human and default-destined for the grave