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Sep 2010
So,
show me you're different.
Just show me you're better.
Show me just how special you really are.
All that talk..
it has to be for something.
It had to mean something.
Show me that you are worthwhile.
Show me that I have reason to trust you.
Show me that you have merit.
Because I'm beginning to be disappointed.
All I see are the things you are trying to hide.
How you lie
How you cheat
How you use
All to get just what you want
And parade over the rest
pretending to be someone you aren't.
So,
who are you really?
Are you trust?
Loyalty?
Hope?
Are you scared?
Don't worry about your faults.
I won't judge you for them.
Imperfections make you human,
right?
So why am I so often demoralized because I make mistakes?
Why am such a failure in your eyes?
I'm not any different.
Besides the fact that I stood by you at your worst and yet, I am condemned for doing nothing but protecting you...
Yea... that's doesn't seem fair to me either.
You make the mistakes.
I guard them for you.
And yet, I'm the one that takes the fall.
Brilliant plan.
I never saw it coming.
And, sadly, I still care.
And I still hold hope.
Trust me,
I'm trying to give it up.
Because what the point anymore?
My loyalty stretches deep inside my very soul
and yours just happens to be a surface atrocity.
It's not your fault.
It's mine for thinking that we were aiming for the same goals.
Long term?
My bad.
Next time I'll read the fine print.
Written by
Jami Morton
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