Making them closer than they were before
And keeping a permanently open door
Showing your surgically open heart
To be sure they won’t be seeking more
Losing their hand has made you hard to please
Retaining the past: a terminal disease
It’s like an exhilarating sorrow
You can touch it, it’s so near
It’s a foregone bad tomorrow
An anticipated fear
Walking alone under a cloud of loss
And wearing rejection like a painted cross
Staring at streets that make you stop and yearn
For the love you nonchalantly tossed
Can I hope to step into their shoes?
Have they left enough for you to lose?
Surely the words that made your memories burn will eliminate the unpaid dues?
And I’m breathless with dejection
Aggravated to unwind
The lessons and attention
Lost the will to fight
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You smother me with your sadness
A serf in your open mind
Threaten me with your weakness
And kiss me to be unkind
Slaying me in slow motion
And leaving the love behind
You’re crying an entire ocean
And kissing to be unkind
You’re withholding what you’re giving
And you’re choking just to breathe
Embracing to forsake them;
You’re arriving just to leave
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