Why does love always hurt
When I confess my pain?

In the bedroom,
The shadow shows a champion
We come to life as the sheets come undone
I'm loving myself while making love
To you
The rhythm is voluptuous in my ears
If you were me, what would you do
Cascades of pink and red
Gliding down your back
As I climb onto your up-to-no-good desire
Eat me up, love
A safe space, loving you down
Can I tango with the beauty
That is your seduction
Will I be the same man
Giving you this fall from heaven
In the morning

Undoubtedly
I survived a forest fire
Up from the ashes
Riding the decision
To live a life of freedom

Some days
Have me feeling as though
My words are vapid
And only matter
Through the voice of someone
You look up to

Every time I look for the truth
I sieve the dirt to find
The possibility of uncertainty
Playing by the rules
Doesn't feel so glee anymore

As I live in a society
Concerned with plagiarizing
The lives of those living like fire
I shift through the streets
Feeling so different from the rest

The dirt on my shoes
Will never truly go away
And neither will my place
So I just stop my crying
And place my best foot forward

I've grown to find
Life is too hard to be kind
I'd breathe for the wrong ones
Please, oh, please plenish me
As I wake up in the morning
I hope you notice the warning

All of this time
And I never forgot
About you
You ******* *******

I’m a wreck
If I don’t have anything
I’m a machine
Running on oil
Waiting for you to fill me up
It feels like the world is almost over
And I can’t live to not look low
As I’m pulled apart from this car crash
Of misery, I see it was all pointless
And that the bullets were temporary pain
I don’t know much about fighting
But with you around, I felt like I knew it all
I threw my blow to my entrapped heart
And broke my walls down
The ashes and smoke looked like stars
And a cosmic journey was now mine
I looked for the sign in the rubble
In each disaster I created
And found a heartbeat
Worthy of life

Sirens call from below the threshold
The children scatter wherever it is safe
I lay in bed, hating the issues
I fail to accept

Sweet November was always my favorite
It enveloped me
In a tower of safety
I'd been fighting a war
Couldn't live up to my dreams

Some days I find
That I'm too scared
To talk about what plagues my fears
What will happen when I open it up
And find a wound I didn't make?

I couldn’t tell you how many times
I was afraid of messing it up
The number of times I reattempted it,
Hoping that it would be ready for the finale
I stumbled once or twice
Always managed to slip on my feet
Everyone I worked with said
“It happens sometimes”
And I learned from it

For every waltz I memorized
Came another tricky jazz routine
That tore me apart and pulled
At me until I was bruised
But by next week, I found it again
From time to time, I found myself solo
At times when I needed a partner
Learned to do it all on my own
An empty feeling, but a powerful one as well
I’ve had many instructors
Some good, but not all
I had to find the right one
To show me the way

I wept for a moment on the stage
To show off everything I’d learned
Went blind staring up at the lights past the crowd
Looking for a moment of satisfaction

Could this be your husband,
Could this be your mother,
Could this be your neighbor,
Could this be any given name,
Am I talking about a personal career, or
Am I talking about the same dance
We all go through every day?