Look at me
When I'm talking to you
When you're trying to gather
The pieces of
Your self-identity
That I've just broken
Desperately crawling
around for crumbs
To recompose
And reconstruct
A resemblance of
A human being
Look at me
And listen
Everything I'm saying
Is what you know is true
I've been the devil
On your shoulder
Whispering it to you
Take a closer look
And you'll see
That you're worthless
Irrelevant
And not ever even seen
No amount of personality
Will ever make your glitter gleam
So before you try
To draw the lines
That map out
All of your self-hatred
And despise
Just know
It'll never work tonight
You'll live another day
To fight
Only to hear my voice say
Look at me
When I'm talking to you!

I bet
You're taking her to
All the places we have been
With one hand on
the steering wheel
Another tangled deep
insider hers
Like angel hair
And you've got
Your thousand watt smile
Working the room
You're such a star standard
Everybody's looking at you
You're laughing at
All of her lame jokes
And you're admiring
Her smile
Comparing it to
The light of the moon
And singing
There's a hole in the earth
Without truly
knowing what it means
And you're buying
love locks
To put on to a fence
Just to show that
This time it's permanent
But
Like invisible ink
It never plays out
Exactly how you think
And now you're
Screaming at the top
Of your angry lungs
Wondering just how and when
The poison and the pain will end
And I'm left wondering
If you're taking her
To all the places we have been

3.28.19 Pen name "Todd"