Sling 'em,
Throw 'em...
If my love only knew how much he hurt me…..
If my love only knew what he did to...
I recall when you said that you would never leave...
You told me more...
I walked along a city sidewalk
I walked along an empty street...
Words swell up inside me
chaos in my brain...
Emboldened.
Emboldened by praises imagined...
I hear their cheers, loud, pressing,
a constant drone in my head...
I wanted to ask her if she loved him, or if she...
but her eyes just dared me to ask such a...
He was a beggar I guess,
with clothes tattered and torn...
It’s an illusion of grandeur
this glass house that I build...
What I’ve learned so far -
is that sometimes promises really do get broken...
I fought him as he tore at me
with hands so full of hate...