Hold your hands out in the darkness
Trying to hold on to shadows
Cast against a pitch wall
Little light shone through the cracks
Between his fingers

Kept in a cage neither one of us created
Doomed to a fate too far apart to embrace
Folded over on itself
In a maze of emotions
Lost in a sweltering desert of misery

Some day still
You will find me

I laid down my life
Like a red carpet
For your beauty
To tread upon,
But you tracked
Filth and rot
Across it
And now
I am ruined

Deep within a chasm
Where light has never shone
Where the monsters lurk
Waiting to tear flesh
That is where you came from

It was a void, a great emptiness
Spinning
Twisting
Clenching
Deep inside of my gut

It was disbelief
Shock
Pain
Denial
Could he really be gone?

They tried to comfort me
Encouraging
Believing
Hoping
But it all fell on deaf ears

Because I was now without him.

Forgive me for being bold
Or rather don't
Because I'm done being silent
It's time for me to say my piece

I'm not worthless
No matter how hard you tried
To make me believe I was
I knew I was special

I dont have trophies and awards
But I've got plenty of stories
That would put your boasts
To shame

It's not a competition
For me like it always was for you
But in comparison it's easy to see
Who the bigger person is here

It wasnt the grown man
Screaming at a trembling child,
It was the strong girl
That learned to love herself.

Thank you.

I took a trip down a narrow lane
One that appeared abandoned and desolate

I passed faded faces and empty smiles
I had never seen more sadness

So how could it bring me here?
How could such sadness lead to such beauty?

Sinking sand
Fills my lungs
And the dead hands
Drag me down

Yet I still feel lighter
Than I ever did when you were around