I think it was a dream
Or a nightmare of some kind
I was lost in a jungle
I search but can't find
You in the thicket
Spiders big as dinner plates
With one thousand shiny black eyes
Snakes who wrap and coil
On branches twisted, gnarled....shadows
It's hot and humid
Dripping sweat
A mosquito bites
The back of my neck
I'm scared
Of the sounds in the bushes
Scared to step

The snap of a twig beneath a tiger's paw
Ah, its you who finds me safe and sound
Curled up in a ball on the ground
Scared of the sound in the bushes
Just the sound of butterfly wings
Scared to step
On the path that leads home
I'm just a scaredy-cat I guess

Tonight,
under the stars
that condemned us,
it finally felt right.
You and I
talking again,
so effortlessly.
It was like
we were never scraped
out from eachothers hearts.
It felt like
the past year,
where everything
was messed up and
we didn't speak
all just disappeared.
once again,
you and I were beautiful.
And it hurts like hell
because tomorrow
I know you'll fall
back into her arms
disregarding that we ever spoke.

I have collapsed
Beneath your forceful hand
For the last time.
This is it,
The sun has set on you,
On me,
On us.
It's all curving to an end
Just like your dreams
For our future.
You had too high expectations
For the person you thought I was.
I won't ever be that person.
Soon this will all be over
And I won't have to bruise anymore.
What am I supposed to do
When I'm alone, though?
STOP. Stop everything.
I can't let this end.
I can't be alone in this world.
Don't let the sun go down.
Not now.

And when that fire in your eyes burns out
I will try my hardest not to breathe in the smoke.
And even though without that flame
Your flesh will rot, morphing colours from pink to black
I will love you all the same.