I began to hate you
I guess it was written in the stars
Because we were woven into each other,
But you began to choke me with the strings

I fought against the current
An endless battle to keep you here,
But it doesn't really matter now
Because I'm replaced by some other pretty face.

You don't know how you've hurt me,
and the damage is too deep for an easy fix
I'm haunted by the broken trust and betrayal.
And this is how I tell you, "You win."

Invested in you
I find our better angels give ground
******* by our egalitarian feelings for each other
Trumpeted by Gabriel’s miscast players
Bedeviled, we take what are yours, mine, and ours
Accumulated wealth protected from predators
Gives in to charitable impulse
Gives out, a gated community against colored encroachment
My bias against the opposition
Dissolves in your arms
We resolve to devote our energy
Toward getting off on the best footing available
Place where we care and don’t simultaneously
Then make fun of our foibles laughing at each other
The same way black and white grays as we mature color blind
Loggerheads whipsawed and dovetailed
Until we forget why we ever came together in the first place
Then remember this location, this smell, this touch, this taste
Karass, storm's eye, held center, Kane's rosebud cathected