At your side,
Rely on me.
Attack on your command,
Just tied to a tree.
Cut the rope,
Release me.
Allow myself to show you,
All that I can be.

At your side,
Lay there next to me.
Happiness reformed,
Molded from a dream.
A hope, a goal,
I shot I thought I missed.
Yet you stand there humming,
Thinking of what you did.

At your side,
Until you dismiss me with goodbye.
Telling me to leave while the adults talk,
I'll be there soon but not quick enough.
Calm shell so hollow with rage,
Screaming out my lungs in a plead to leave this cage.
My mind might think, my body might act,
But I'm relaxed at your side until you tell me to attack.

At your side,
Lied to myself to smile.
I'll leave at some point,
The door has been open for quite a while...