Pretty girl with stars in your eyes And the world at your feet. You never gave another breath about me did you? You never thought about the consequences. Sad little awkward one that I was With my toothy smile Face peppered with freckles and imperfections. You took the first chance you got Grabbed that ring Drank that koolaide Whatever the mechanism was You swallowed faster than a desperate pledge at a frat party You’re on that perpetual joy ride And I am left alone To drown in the gray desperation that is my glass ceiling life. How can you breathe in the thin air of your rarified sky? I think of you and I hate you like I hate burying a kid’s first puppy. You left me with nothing But an open wound where my soul should have been. You can’t come back And I can’t rise above This little existence I’ve dug out with my own jagged nails Hell may be too good for you but at least I know The monster in the mirror is more real Than that illusion of angels I thought I saw in your eyes. Love is a witch of a mistress You taught me well TLB 031313