Sometimes frustration and fear
Fall from my eyes
Sometimes my head is screaming warning
But my heart whispers that it lies
Sometimes the pain stays
Long after the dream is gone
Sometimes I start to forget
Believing I belong
Sometimes I feel abandoned
For the walls are closing in
Sometimes I desperately need you
Knowing you'll make it all okay
Sometimes I can't help but break
As I watch you drive away
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Her shadow haunts her waking dreams
Broken fragments of her soul scream
Illuminated darkness hides the past
From choices of a lot she didn’t cast
Bitter and broken, consistently abandoned
Lost, to be found and again left stranded
Walking a road of self-destruction
Building walls for her own protection
The fear of herself has only grown
For she cannot escape, the
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...Silence...
With every word left unspoken
They built a house of destruction
Screaming in silence
As they fulfill their penance
Yet remorse resounds hollow
From promises they just couldn't follow
Silence piercing their souls
From secrets left untold.
The haunting evaluation
of each negligible detail
forges gut wrenching anxiety
echoing her every pending word
The silence is deafening
revealing phobias untold
moments pass languidly
causing her every insecurity to show.
It has been four years since I have sat down with pen and paper in an attempt to convey my emotions and repair my fractured soul. I no longer find myself broken, no longer in need of repair, Its only fitting that I should share my new found inspiration.
He came into her life
Like a fractured grain of sand
He made her question things
She believed to already understand
He broke into her walls
Like she handed him the key
He showed her how to