The value I hold for myself I place in what others see The pain I have caused I soon forget any of the happiness And am left with the idea That I am worth nothing But pain and blackness For I forgot about good deeds And remember shattered smiles Faltering in the whispers of the night Pain sticks with us a lot longer Than anything else, does it not They say better to have loved and lost Than to have never loved at all Think about that a moment The memory of love grows faint Masked in the outline of all the pain The tears I have caused drag me down Into their ocean I wallow and drown As I deserve