We cut our teeth on these uncertainties
And when the blood dried, and the smoke cleared
One of us was a little stronger, though none the wiser
And selected to continue, jaws forward aimed at the weakening sun
Who would travel across the world to leave you, but you chase,
Motivated by starvation

Wild and with eyes that lack remorse,
A totem of the darkness and the things you swore
Would never see the light of day

You know
time can be so painful, as she sticks into you,
passes through
Reduces you into nothing but your ghost and corpses
You become
The children you’re so desperate to teach a lesson
by leaving

I want to be big
I wanted to be so much bigger
But these are your mistakes
And mine is not the right to take them
I can only hurt, the way you hurt when you make these decisions

I will make myself a fire in a hearth,
Roaring in my place, and never venturing
Knowing how dangerous I have been, and could be
How sometimes hope ends up in ashes
But I'll be here
Because when you fall you’ll need a place to land

The blood dries and the smoke clears
And much to our surprise
You and I are both still here.