You've poisoned my once favorite songs
as I sing the words I can only taste your mouth.
As my music use to be my escape
Now, it pulls me back under.
I'm trying to swim
with weights around my ankles,
and waves that keep pushing me down.
Where is the shore?
As the lyrics play through my mind,
my heart sinks to my stomach.
The memories of us replace the rhythms,
and my sad broken heart, replaces the happiness I use to feel.

Thank you
Thank you for breaking me into pieces; I'm stronger after I have rebuilt.
Thank you for showing me my weaknesses; they are now my strengths.
Thank you for loving me in all the wrong ways; but thanks for all the right ones too.
Thank you for opening my eyes.
Thank you for cheating; we would still be playing the same game.
Thank you for changing; I've changed too.
Thank you for introducing me to your culture; I now know what I want to study.
Thank you for helping me to choose life.
Thank you for the pain, the love, the tears, for I am strong.

You asked for my heart
so I hesitantly gave it,
Afraid of what would happen,
I just decided to brave it.
Singing softly along side your voice,
I started to fall as if I didn't have a choice.
Then you went in reverse
and you took it all back,
You grabbed my heart
and just tossed it into your stack
of all the hearts you don't care to wound,
I couldn't have learned of this too soon.
I'll see you around,
and I'm glad we aren't a thing,
because your smile is deceitful,
and your words just sting.