Like a storm in the distance, I loom
Over dark dreams and dead futures
Like torn sutures
Nothing’s the same anymore
She is gone and they have left
And I’m stuck standing in the ashes
So many times I’ve been betrayed
So many loved ones I wish had stayed
What did they stray?
Left stranded again I’m back to the start
All the plans have been abandoned for fear of entertaining the future
Of entertaining our hearts
Another beginning seems so exhausting
So I’ll hide in my frustration for a while
And pretend I have no inspiration
And pretend I have no desire
But above all, I’m ashamed that I fell to ash
I’m embarrassed that I held so long to single sided promises
And liquored dispositions
I was trapped under the weight of decisions made
Though I was told, I made them all along
I could never quite convince myself that it was me
Who was wrong
Though I am lost, I’m not losing
I have no choice, but now I’m choosing
I watched you run from your ambitions, afraid
And now you play hide-and-seek with what you could have been
I know you won’t rise again
Because of this I fight so hard to stay afloat
The day you fell, you brought me down with you
And together at the bottom, you wait to be brought back up
While I was busy building wings to rise above
Though I am lost, I’m not losing
I have no choice, but now I’m choosing
With sunlit rays on this hazy days
I see my past, I can’t go back
I will create, in an attempt to feel whole
Like a phoenix, I am reborn
Though I am lost, I’m not losing
I have no choice, but now I’m choosing
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