I hated the smell, yet I inhaled it willingly. It stuck to me like tar, yet I touched it voluntarily. I'm the epitome of a beaten path. I was once impenetrable, I was once indestructible. Now trapped in a paradox. An endless abyss of nothing. I'm the epitome of a beaten path. I couldn't find big enough words to make you love me. I didn't know how to phrase what I feel, I'm not a human dictionary. I'm the epitome of a beaten path. You walked my beaten path, you said you'd heal the pain. I should have known you'd make it worse, not make it go away. I'm the epitome of a beaten path. You walk it every day.