Strip me of you
I'm an empty naked shell.
I have no heart to revive.
No words to speak
No motions to work through.
Who am I?
Where did I go wrong?
Do I love so fully that I can't go back,
back to a life without you.
Will this kill me?
Am I helpless now?
Do I breath at all?
I come up for air, I try.
But I keep swimming and swimming
toward the sky. Toward a surface that will never come.
I'm drowning.
Do you see me thrashing, kicking, grasping for air?
Do you see the oxygen leaving my body?
Is their any life left in my eyes?
Strip me of you, of who you've helped me be.
I'm not sure that I am anything at all.
Not sure I exist.
Not sure I ever have.
If I was put on this earth to love you
where do I go from here?
Do I keep loving you endlessly, expecting nothing in return?
Do I pathetically beg at your feet?
Do I feel? Do I cry?
Do I still bleed?
Cut wide open. Completely exposed.
Vulnerable.
But nothing is inside. Stripped of you, I'm only a hollow body. Empty vessel, a naked shell.
