my love for you
was more than fate
the world wanted to teach me
how to hate
but i learned hate and love
are all the same
and as long as you love
you’re sure to feel pain.

you can’t stop the rain from falling
you can’t stop a lightning strike.
i could not stop you from leaving
without even saying goodbye.

your words are burned into my head
a list of reasons why you left
said my ice cold heart couldn’t warm your bed
and if you had to stay,

you’d rather be dead.

gravity changed.
it sunk me three feet into the ground.
while you floated away over me
like a red ballon that i had just let go,
to get tangled in the trees.
i waited for you to come back down
get shaken out of the limbs,
by a breeze.
but when you finally came loose
you just drifted further away
from me.

daisies push up after death
that’s all i’ve planted
since you left