The lights stay on
After you and I are done
Time swept into ashen memories
Look like roses left to dry til brittle causes dissolution
Doesn’t someone need to notice? As we all march along? What is lost? Left behind?
If dying is an art
Dancing away from you, not giving a damn
The hurt becomes a scar you can peel and discard if you practice hard
I let you go
And the lights stay on like we’re still together
Blazing down on young shoulders, like opened heavens
I’m driving in the opposite direction, bare foot on accelerator
You lied and I discovered the root of evil
Is trusting the wrong one
A creature of the fall, your meal is honesty, you need no desert
Swallow whole the lesson, make it last
I stepped out from behind the curtain where I always hid
Hating myself, the voices attesting, no worth in living
And dusting off years of disregard and absence
I unfurled the wings you never knew I possessed
How did you think I made it this long otherwise?
I said, taking my first step into air
This girl held on long after all was done, hoping against hope
She turns this part of her that cannot give up, toward the light
It is true, what doesn’t kill, makes you stronger or savage or capable of survival
Your lack of love all these years no longer wounds as deep
I use the pain I had, to lend me flight
It’s never too late until the last time
Living doesn’t have to be a tragedy or emptiness
She’s found her wings and intends to go high
Where the sound you make when you self destruct, is easy to stifle
Only the stillness of her soul, free at last
She may be fragile, but you, she’ll out last.