Standing at the crossroads
Wondering what you’re going to choose
What is it you’ll gain and
What is it you’ll lose

Is it your independence
Or is it loyalty
What is it you search for
To take away from me?

In the most vulnerable of moments
My heart laid on the line
As I looked to you for safety
You replied, “I have no time.”

No time to care, no love to give
No sacrifice to make
Instead you gave excuses
And sought what you could take

So I gave and gave
And gave some more
Almost to my demise
As I believed the way you saw me
Through your selfish eyes

Yet, now I’m seeing something new
Something I didn’t know
I need to separate from you
For truth and love to grow

For, in you, there is no love
There’s only pain and lies
One thing I’ve learned so well by now is
You love what I despise.

So, I sit and grieve the pain
Of dreams shattered by your choice
I stop and I remember
That I still have a voice

That voice was silenced for a time
But louder, now, its risen
It’s time to rediscover
Life beyond this prison