All of those things
Yes "those" things
The ones that keep you up at night
The ones you never want to awknowledge
The ones that haunt you
Yes "those" things
Your weakness
Your pain
All of "those" things
They make us human
And without them
We wouldn't be who we are today
We all have "those" things
We carry them around in secret
We can act as if they don't exist
But "those" things will never be gone
"Those" things will be buried deep within us
And they will haunt us
Till death do us part

Don't feel
Don't think
Pretend but sleep
Awake in your deep dreams
Awake but yet asleep
Were you torn and but not alone?
Or did your dreams keep you deep,
Deep in your sleep
Yet awake and asleep
Alone but not
Your thoughts, the stranger you don't want to meet
They keep you awake
Yet still asleep
Awake but asleep

I tried to hold it off.
Keep the sadness at bay.
But tonight,
Looking through pictures and
Remembering old times

The tears started flowing
And this time
I didn’t hold them back

I know that you will never understand that words can hurt
That your words are painful

Each word is another jab to my heart
Another tear in my soul
A scrape to my skin
One more break in my bones
Just another pain to my being

The words are more harmful
Than anything you could hurt me with

They can be soft like a caressing hand
But you don't use them so
You use them to cut me down
Until I am nothing but pain

You leave me cold
In fear of others
And their words

I can't leave you though
For once again
Your words trap me

The words you used to hurt me
Are now the chains that bind me to you
From now until I can form my walls once again
To block out the words

You were a flame
Burning hot and bright
Non stop never ending
An infinite blaze
A burn I wanted
I wanted the pain
But...
I never thought that you would leave
I thought you would be my never ending forest fire
Burn me so I could be reborn into new soil
For our love to grow in
But you decided against that
Instead...
You burned me to ashes
Destroyed everything in your path
You left nothing good
Yet everything bad
My forest flame