I’ve always imagined
Your house
Robbin’s egg blue
Just like your eyes
I’ve always imagined
Your mom
Cracked but beautiful
Just like your smile
I’ve always imagined
Your dad
Forward but shy
Just like your walk
I’ve always imagined
Your room
A melancholy type of old fashioned
Just like your soul

“Let love set you free” they say
But every time I fall in love
I feel trapped, caged
Like a bird with clipped wings
And by the time
My captur wants to set me free
It’s already too late
Fooled, hooked,
Conned

Old apartments
Like my heart, need care
Abandoned playground
Like my hand, long for your touch
Cemetary
Like my mind, where things go to die
Highways
Like my relationships, need repaired
Trees
Like my presence, underappreciated

Yet I sit here
And wait
For what, I don’t know
Maybe I’m waiting
For you to save me
But maybe
I should be waiting
For me
To save myself

My heart is glass
Put back together with tape
It is a sidewalk chalk drawing
Half washed away
It is a playground
Put together with superglue
But you
Punched through the glass
Breaking and entering
But you
Let it rain
And didn’t miss the art
But you
Bulldozed the park
And put up a cemetery
But you
Didn’t put flowers next to my grave
Didn’t come to talk to my headstone
And you
Walked away
Knuckles unscathed
Still dry
Not longing for a swingset
And you
Walked off into the sunset
Perfectly fine
But here lies me

You make me
Look like a fool
But over you, I drool
For your burdens, I’m a mule
You used me as a tool
Should have known
You’d be cruel.

Everyday with you
Is a day I make it through
We couldn’t be more close-knit,
We’re a perfect fit
You breathe life into me
Like oxygen from a tree
To my heart, you have the key
I can’t leave you be
I promised to never lie
Since, weeks and months have gone by
Now, you don’t have to “stay high”
Take my heart, it’s not to buy
Once you understand
Once you comprehend
I will love you to ‘till the end
I’ll be your forever friend