Five years have passed so unbearably slow I thought by now that I could finally let go I walked down an endless series of halls Looking for something that wasn't at all I ran till my lungs burned, but couldn't escape Ran all the way to the other side of the state There is no escape from that fateful day When I leaned in, when she walked away So I have accepted my heart, I've come to grips With the warmth in her smile, the curse in my lips I've died once, but the burial shroud unfurled And I rise, the poet who stopped the world.