I peel back the sides of my face to let you breathe
but you flee,
thinking life will be better on the other side.
we saw their light through crooked spines
where we sleep when we find peace
what we didn't know is that she was watching,
she was always watching.
if I let you in...
would you let me go ?
It isolated me to feel that you were there.
the story is that it appeared overnight
but the truth is that it grew unnoticed
we let them infect us because
we were ignorant
our land was theirs now.
move away from the comfort I gave you
leave me to be alone.
I made you feel better about being
not knowing it would destroy me from within
enough of this wanting
your presence has no worth here anymore.
In the place of peeled back flesh,
that's where we laid our land
Our land was breaking
when our hearts were new
If the land split in two
leaving me on both sides
Would you wait for me
to become whole again
where will I go if I can't find you?
would we tell them it was us
would we reveal their pain was our doing
or could we exist a little longer in their light
I stumbled upon a place that wasn't meant for me.
The cold came when she stopped
looking for you
As if it knew she had given up.
If it came out of me broken,
why would you want to fix it ?
If it returned to me fixed,
why would I want it back ?
Their cage laid delicately over them,
as if it were a shell
its transparent nature danced in the sunlight
begging to be revealed
How long before the shell would start to crack
for the cruelty to be revealed
let's leave them for now.