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my therapist says your actions
have more to do with you
than they have to do with me
so why do i feel so targeted

i know she's right
but you know what you're doing
and i'm trying to find peace
in that i'm better off not trying to untangle your prerogative
you don't deserve my anger
not because you're guiltless
moreso that energy is wasted
when it's spent weighing a thought of you
the reprieve doesnt amount to much
and my grief wont revert to love
your presence is nothing but a reminder
of how i didn't love myself enough
to let myself be loved
what happened to naming your first kid after me
and the cow themed kitchen of our dreams
can you explain why any of this is happening
because it never made much sense to me

i want to be mad and i have many reasons to feel jaded
but i know holding grudges serves no purpose
logic writes off every course of frustration
acting out of emotion would be a disservice

but i can't do anything right
except for walk the other way
i do it with a pain in my chest
but i did everything right at the end of the day

and all of your shortcomings
and betrayals and cruelty
one they they'll be nothing
but old ******* news to me
today it hurts
but i gotta breathe and find truth in peace
not dedicate my life and death to punishing you
for being selfish and marooning me

because one day i won't cry for you
and all of the things you wouldn't do
when fidelity fell short
the times i waited for you to never come through
in contrast with the blood that i poured
on the altar built just for you
it'll be in ruins in due time
til then i just have to make do

and i'll make do
till i'm doing well
and you'll make wrong turns
till you've confused yourself
which is none of my concern
not since the day you abjured
at least i've gained perspective
from the wrath that i've endured
and maybe one day you might change
but that's not for sure

and i'm not rewriting history
by letting new information alter my position
it's okay to be wrong
and even better to make informed decisions
praying i'll never learn this lesson again
knowing my part in how this ended
i won't ever walk on water
but my life will be more than chosen affliction
i loved you
but you're not welcome not even when you are forgiven
i'm changing the soundtrack to my life
i'm not thinking clearly
but i don't know if i wanna love anymore
but of course i do
if you dont then what is all of it for


i was thinking about
all of the reasons i can't die
and i realized
they're the reasons i want to be alive

i'm tired
but i'd live to share your company
i'm trying
what more could you want from me
burning the last of the papers
the wisps turn from orange to ash
as they fly somewhere to be left alone
having served their purpose
are we done yet?

drudging my efforts from the depths of my purpose
sometimes i feel like this life is worthless
if i can't have you

i'd burn all the pictures
but i never had any with you
i've never been a picture person
but now i wish i had been
so i could remember it all before i throw it away

the wind burns my eyes
i count all my fingers and look at the sky
the smoke is blowing towards home
or what used to be home
i oughta go inside

before i freeze
that's not how i want to be found
it'd be too dramatic
to give up and give in now

close the door
a piece of me lies on your mantle
and i'll never get it back
if i could rip it from your cold dead hands
i might give it a crack
it's horrid to think such a way
much less to commit the act
but i invested every last drop of my being
and now i wish i never had

it's awful to wish i never loved
but i'm starting to realize just how sad
i was and how indifferent you treated me

so is wanting ignorance really all that bad?
played stupid games
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