That girl wouldn't dare see
Wouldn't dare know
The fate of another girl
Half-way across the world
Who tried to see
Despite all her misgivings
She did
She tried, she leant over
Bent backwards
And did her best
Stayed up all night
Unraveling those tangled threads
But she fell
She fell
She fell
She fell
You won't ever know how hard
She pretends to not see
Sometimes
But they come back
And they wave in crimson-tainted,
Guts splattered, dreams
They kick her
They wish she wasn't there
And sometimes.
Sometimes, she imagines giving up
Imagines living a life
Where she could hide
Hide
Behind her laptop screen her whole life
A life where she could sleep
Sleep at a time when everyone went to bed
Or if just a bit before,
Then nothing better
She wished she could hide.
Those falls left her lonely
Gut-clenchingly lonely
That girl is me.